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"University Success is an academic course designed for English language learners preparing for mainstream academic environments. Authentic content is woven through reading, writing, and oral communication strands. The course - level by level - carefully scaffolds skills development to help students become autonomous learners, thereby closing the skills gap.

University Success Oral Communication, Intermediate to High-Intermediate Level provides intensive skill development and expanded application – tied to specific learning outcomes – preparing students to understand and process lengthy academic lectures, defend their ideas, speak thoughtfully in discussions, and contribute to group projects. Authentic lectures delivered by top professors from Stanford University provide real-life learning experiences.

FEATURES:
Parts 1 and 2 include short lectures and classroom discussions ranging from 2-5 minutes related to five content areas: Bioethics, Business and Design, Zoology, History, and Chemical Engineering. These lectures and discussions allow students to build essential listening, speaking, and critical thinking skills.
Part 3 features authentic 15- to 20-minute lectures built around the same five academic disciplines. These lectures enable students to apply and expand the skills acquired in Parts 1 and 2.

Integration of the Student Book and MyEnglishLab provides a blended approach for a flexible program that adjusts to the needs of students and teachers." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS

Welcome to University Success

Key Features of University Success

Scope and Sequence

Acknowledgments

PART 1 Fundamental Oral Communication Skills

U1 BIOETHICS: Active Participation Fundamental Skills: Listening actively to follow a lecture or discussion — Taking turns in a discussion
Integrated Skills: Taking organized notes
Language Skills: Identifying subject relative clauses
Vocabulary Strategy: Creating a vocabulary journal
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and participate in a panel discussion about conservation and de-extinction, exploring the causes of extinction, conservation efforts, and ideas for the future.

U2 BUSINESS AND DESIGN: Idea Development
Fundamental Skills: Demonstrating an understanding of ideas in a discussion — Rephrasing to clarify information
Integrated Skills: Answering specific questions about a text
Language Skills: Using tag questions to invite agreement
Vocabulary Strategy: Using a dictionary to improve vocabulary
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and participate in a brainstorming discussion about a new idea for an app, using your knowledge of design thinking.

U3 ZOOLOGY: Extended Discourse
Fundamental Skills: Formulating probing questions — Describing conclusions
Integrated Skills: Summarizing listenings
Language Skills: Connecting ideas with so and therefore
Vocabulary Strategy: Guessing meanings of unknown words
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver an individual presentation about an elephant behavior or body part, explaining what the behavior means and why it is interesting.

U4 HISTORY: Relationships Between Ideas
Fundamental Skills: Comparing similar ideas — Contrasting different ideas
Integrated Skills: Understanding relationships between ideas
Language Skills: Utilizing the simple past passive
Vocabulary Strategy: Creating flashcards to study vocabulary
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver a pair presentation that compares and contrasts two historical sites, and discusses what is significant about them.

U5 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: Presentations
Fundamental Skills: Identifying parts of a presentation or lecture — Planning for a presentation
Integrated Skills: Making predictions
Language Skills: Explaining order with linking words
Vocabulary Strategy: Choosing the right level of formality
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver an individual presentation about a process related to lake ecology and the effects that that process has on other parts of the lake.

PART 2 Critical Thinking Skills

U1 BIOETHICS: Facts and Opinions
Critical Thinking Skills: Identifying and expressing facts — Identifying and expressing opinions
Integrated Skills: Identifying bias
Language Skills: Expressing conditions with if
Vocabulary Strategy: Examining abbreviations
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and participate in a class debate about whether or not scientists should use germline gene editing to treat diseases.

U2 BUSINESS AND DESIGN: Inferences
Critical Thinking Skills: Making inferences — Giving oral summaries to relate ideas
Integrated Skills: Answering Inference Questions
Language Skills: Expressing present possibility with modal verbs
Vocabulary Strategy: Using synonyms to understand new vocabulary
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and participate in a panel discussion about various business strategies, including what role that strategy plays in a company’s success.

U3 ZOOLOGY: Synthesis of Information
Critical Thinking Skills: Taking notes on research lectures — Relating source information to an audience
Integrated Skills: Synthesizing information from multiple sources.
Language Skills: Using complement clauses after about.
Vocabulary Strategy: Recognizing collocations to expand vocabulary.
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver an individual presentation on a particular animal’s means of communication and how it was discovered.

U4 HISTORY: Main Ideas
Critical Thinking Skills: Identifying main ideas — Paraphrasing to relate main ideas
Integrated Skills: Rephrasing to simplify ideas.
Language Skills: Constructing the present perfect passive.
Vocabulary Strategy: Utilizing a dictionary to understand grammatical behavior.
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver an individual presentation about an historical site, document, or artifact from your home culture and include a visual.

U5 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: Processes
Critical Thinking Skills: Interpreting and listing steps in a process — Utilizing visual aids in a presentation
Integrated Skills: Explaining a scientific process.
Language Skills: Showing sequence with time adverbs.
Vocabulary Strategy: Developing vocabulary by understanding word families.
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and participate in a pair presentation on a weather condition, including how global warming may affect the process that creates it.

PART 3 Extended Lectures

U1 BIOETHICS
LECTURE: Bringing Back the Dead
Research / Assignment: Research, prepare, and deliver an individual presentation on a particular animal that could and should be considered for de-extinction.

U2 BUSINESS AND DESIGN
LECTURE: Design Strategy
Research / Assignment: Research, prepare, and participate in a group presentation about a particular product or service and its strengths and weaknesses.

U3 ZOOLOGY
LECTURE: A Study of Elephants and Sound Communication
Research / Assignment: Research, prepare, and participate in a group discussion about the inspiration for the development of a particular device.

U4 HISTORY
LECTURE: Four Discoveries That Changed History
Research / Assignment: Research, prepare, and participate in a panel discussion about an important discovery.

U5 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
LECTURE: The Lake Nyos Disaster
Research / Assignment: Research, prepare, and participate in a pair presentation about the sequence of events that led to a particular natural disaster.

Credits

Index

CEFR: B2+ (High-Intermediate).