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Teaching academic English articles
First lessons for Academic English classes – LINK UPDATED
Index pages in this section
Academic discussions games/ worksheets
Academic Word List (AWL) games/ worksheets page
– University applications worksheets
– Functional language for academic writing page
Related pages
Education vocabulary worksheets
Academic areas index pages
Social Science/ Social issues page
Functional language for academic writing and speaking index pages
Brainstorming in groups phrases page
Comparing and contrasting page
Advantages and disadvantages page
Clarifying/ checking worksheets page
Purpose, cause and effect page
Giving presentations page (most used with EAP classes)
Other photocopiable Academic English classroom activities
Negative prefixes jigsaws (with CPE and academic vocabulary versions and presentation stage)
Leading seminars and discussion review (27 pages!)
Leading seminars and discussions longer phrases card games
Leading seminars and discussions politeness competition game
Certainty and uncertainty in Academic English (adverbs etc)
Classifying and ranking academic phrases
Longer academic phrases card game
Academic Word List giving examples guessing game
Clarifying meanings in Academic English
Academic Word List advantages and disadvantages phrases practice
Academic Word List phrases for expressing purpose practice
Academic Word List trends language
Academic Word List comparing and contrasting phrases practice
Academic Word List vocabulary for expressing certainty and uncertainty
Academic Word List practice of expressing cause and effect
Academic Word List positive and negative connotations
Academic Word List vocabulary with negative prefixes
Academic countable and uncountable nouns with the same root
Academic countable and uncountable nouns with the same meaning
Academic English Same or different (for common confusions and ways of not repeating)
Expressing purpose and cause and effect (with lots of Academic Word list vocabulary in it)
Academic vocabulary antonyms reversi game
Academic vocabulary synonyms reversi game
Academic vocabulary random pelmanism
Academic Word List call my bluff
Academic Word List collocations pairwork
Academic English language of concession
Lists of useful language
70 useful expressions for academic writing by key word
Updated 30 August 2022
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This is hugely useful – thank you for your time putting this list together and adding all the resources. For a group of EAP students, I’ve made a needs analysis using this list.