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The 4 Point series is designed for English language learners whose primary goal is to succeed in an academic setting. Academic English learners need skills-based books that focus on reading, listening, and speaking, as well as the two primary language bases of vocabulary and grammar. The ultimate goal is to help your students improve these skills and earn a 4.0 (GPA).The Introduction to English for Academic Purposes (EAP) level is designed for students in academic programs who need a more general introduction to authentic academic content. The discrete skills volumes are designed for programs and courses that want to more intensively focus on key strategies and authentic academic content in one skill area.Each 4 Point volume covers academic skills while providing reinforcement and systematic recycling of key vocabulary issues and further exposure to grammar issues. These volumes focus very heavily on vocabulary because language learners know that they are way behind their native-speaker counterparts when it comes to vocabulary. Each book highlights key vocabulary items, including individual words, compound words, phrasal verbs, short phrases, idioms, metaphors, collocations and longer set lexical phrases.Speaking for Academic Purposes is an introductory textbook containing English for Academic Purposes content. Each unit includes activities to strengthen a range of speaking skills, notably: understanding classroom discourse, using academic language functions, recognizing signal words and phrases, and synthesizing information. These activities are presented within the context of one field of academic study (Architecture, Marketing, Earth Science, U.S. History, Chemistry, and Fine Arts) per unit. Unique to this speaking text are six videos showing common student interactions. Access to the videos is free. Each unit includes three academic speaking strategies (including one specific to making presentations) and tasks that involve participating in group discussions, interacting with native speakers, and making a presentation. The goal is to provide students with a variety of strategies/tools to master academic situations in which they need to participate.

The ability to give a successful presentation in an academic setting is critical to success both on and off campus. Making Academic Presentations describes the five moves, or parts, of a typical presentation and provides examples of language that can be used to successfully accomplish these moves. Although language is vital to giving a good presentation, the book also addresses other factors that influence the success of a presentation, such as overcoming nervousness, nonverbal communication, and pronunciation and paralinguistics. The book includes a variety of tasks that will help students practice developing and analyzing presentations as well as practice projects for applying these lessons. In addition, rubrics and evaluation forms are included for instructors to adapt and use for evaluation purposes.

As workloads and work responsibilities continue to increase, assessment often causes teachers anxiety. Rubrics: What Every Teacher Needs to Know is a handbook that combines theory and pragmatism in clear language to help pre- and in-service teachers and teacher trainers obtain assessment information quickly and efficiently. While many teachers do not realize that creating an assignment is creating an assessment, they should go hand in hand. This book highlights both the value of rubrics and the value of assessment literacy, which is the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to create, administer, and understand the results of assessments to improve student learning.Rubrics provides new and experienced teachers with the tools to become more transparent assessors of their students’ writing, reading, listening, speaking, grammar, and vocabulary. Deborah Crusan and Robyn Brinks Lockwood bring their expertise in assessment and English for academic purposes to address the challenges teachers face in writing clear assignments and grading them fairly. They emphasize that teachers need to think about what they want their students to be able to do, clarify their expectations to their students, and convey those expectations on a rubric/scoring guide. While transparent, step-by-step instructions are included in the book to help teachers create their own assignments and assessments, the appendix materials containing ready-made assignments and their accompanying rubrics will be sure to delight busy teachers.

Unlock your students' academic potential with this six-level, academic-light English course created to build the skills and language students need for their studies. Critical thinking is at the heart of the course, fostering the skills and strategies your students need to tackle academic tasks. The course is tailored to your needs and the needs of your students thanks to the extensive market research we have carried out with a global panel of ELT professionals. By listening to the needs of the teacher and student, we have developed a highly robust course.

Prism is a five-level (A1 to C1), American English paired-skills course (Reading/Writing and Listening/Speaking), created for students who need to develop a range of academic skills. This Level 3 (B2) Listening and Speaking Student's Book prepares students for college classes by developing their listening, speaking, critical thinking, and pronunciation skills, including pronunciation for listening. Special sections teach how to be a successful college student, and the accompanying video program sets the stage for each unit's topic. Inside the book is a single-use code for the Digital Pack. This provides automatically graded extra practice and works on computers or mobile devices.

Final Draft helps students become confident and effective writers, and prepares them for success in their university studies. Final Draft Level 1 Student's Book with Digital Pack gives you all the tools you need to become confident and effective writers and succeed in your future studies. Academic vocabulary, collocations, phrases, and detailed information on the grammar of writing prepare you for college writing courses. Editing activities based on the most common grammar mistakes helps promote accuracy in your writing. The Digital Pack includes an eBook and Writing Skills Interactive for additional instruction and practice in academic writing skills and vocabulary. All content is mobile-friendly, so can be accessed on smartphones, laptops or desktop computers.

Unlock Listening, Speaking & Critical Thinking Student's Book with Digital Pack Level 4 prepares students for their academic studies by developing their listening, speaking, critical thinking, and pronunciation skills, including pronunciation for listening. QR codes on the pages give easy access to the audio. The accompanying video program sets the stage for each unit's topic with lessons in both the Student's Book and the Digital Workbook. The Student's Digital Pack includes an eBook with interactive activities, audio and videos, Digital Workbook for additional practice, and downloadable audio. All content is mobile-friendly and can be accessed on any device.

Unlock Listening, Speaking & Critical Thinking Student's Book with Digital Pack Level 4A (Units 1-4) prepares students for their academic studies by developing their listening, speaking, critical thinking, and pronunciation skills, including pronunciation for listening. QR codes on the pages give easy access to the audio. The video program sets the stage for each unit's topic with lessons in the Student's Book and the Digital Workbook. The Student's Digital Pack includes an eBook with interactive activities, audio and videos, Digital Workbook for additional practice, and downloadable audio. All content is mobile-friendly and can be accessed on any device.

Unlock Listening, Speaking & Critical Thinking Student's Book with Digital Pack Level 4B (Units 5-8) prepares students for their academic studies by developing their listening, speaking, critical thinking, and pronunciation skills, including pronunciation for listening. QR codes on the pages give easy access to the audio. The video program sets the stage for each unit's topic with lessons in the Student's Book and the Digital Workbook. The Student's Digital Pack includes an eBook with interactive activities, audio and videos, Digital Workbook for additional practice, and downloadable audio. All content is mobile-friendly and can be accessed on any device.

Academic writing is difficult, and Final Draft gives students all the tools they need and prepares students to become confident and effective writers and succeed in their future studies. It gives students the tools to master academic writing by learning a systematic approach that focuses on foundational and higher-level skills. Students are introduced to the rhetorical modes, academic vocabulary, and structures they need to develop their own academic voice. They also learn and edit by the most common grammar mistakes drawn from a unique collection of over 50 million examples of nonnative speakers' writing, promoting accuracy in writing. Every Student's Book includes access to Writing Skills Interactive, an online course with instruction and practice across a range of discrete writing skills and an eBook.

Prism is a paired skills course focusing on critical thinking, academic skills, and language students need most to prepare for their college studies. Prism is a five-level (A1 to C1), American English paired-skills course (Reading/Writing and Listening/Speaking), created for students who need to develop a range of academic skills. This Level 3 (B2) Listening and Speaking Teacher's Manual contains teaching suggestions, video scripts, the student's book answer key, and unit quizzes with answer keys.