ELC2501 University English I

Website Orientation Task Sheet

Unit 2 Listening to Lectures

Activity 7

• Studying at University (Tapescript)
• Electronic Communications (Tapescript)
• What is Engineering (Tapescript)

Web links:

• Strategies and links to useful sites
  http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/listenin.aspx
  http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/pathways/notetake.aspx
  http://www.uefap.com/listen/listfram.htm

Unit 3 Writing at University

Web links:

• CILL academic writing
  http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/writing.aspx
• Testing writing skills yourself
  http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/writing.aspx#testing

Unit 4 Using Sources in Academic Writing

Web links:

• APA referencing style
  http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/study/guides/apa_ex.shtml
• IEEE referencing skills
  http://www.york.ac.uk/integrity/ieee.html
• ELC's reference machine
  http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/referenceMachine.aspx#Bibliography%20references

Unit 5 Developing Academic Writing Skills (I)

Web links:

• Writing classification
  http://dev.elc.polyu.edu.hk/smproject/intro.html
• Writing extended definitions
  http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/exercises/functionscorrection.aspx
• Cohesion & coherence in writing
  http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/eap/palmistry.aspx

Unit 6 Developing Academic Writing Skills (II)

Web links:

• Suggesting solutions
  http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/eap/suggestingsolutions.aspx
  

Unit 7 Achieving an Academic Writing Style

Web links:

• Differences between formal and informal language
  http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/eap/matching-errors-formality.aspx
  http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/eap/matching-formality.aspx
• Idiomatic expressions
  http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/eap/2004/u6/pg137ex2idioms.aspx

Unit 8 Giving Oral Presentations

Activity 3 Presentations on robotic pets

• Robotic Pets - to would-be customers
• Robotic Pets - to colleagues

Activities 17 & 18 Presentation on safety case approach to managing workplace issues

• Safety Case Approach (Body)
• Safety Case Approach (Conclusion)

Activity 21

• Sales skills by Ms White
• Development of programming language by Mr Brown

Activity 25 A question-and-answer session

Activity 26 Pronunciation

• Vocabulary - British & US pronunciations
• Sentences - Pausing & Intonation

Web links:

• Presentation planner
  http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/tools/presplan.aspx
• Presentation phrases
  http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/presentations/ordering_question.aspx
• Pronunciation
  http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/pronunci.aspx
• Oral presentation
  http://ec.hku.hk/tops/