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EAP Power Up: Synthesizing Textual and Visual Information for Academic Success

Date : 2024-09-24|Visitors : 1316|Source : BEST Test of English Proficiency
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This resource book develops learners' ability to integrate and explain visual and textual information in academic and professional contexts, strengthening their English speaking and writing skills. In addition, it supports students in meeting the demands of academic English and English-medium instruction (EMI) courses, and it helps prepare them for the General Scholastic Ability Test (GSAT), the General English Proficiency Test (GEPT), and the BEST Test of English Proficiency (BESTEP).

Physical copies (Chinese Edition): Click here.
Online version (English Edition): Available for download (see table below); for teaching and learning purposes only.

 Unit Overview

 Learning Guide

 Key Sentence Patterns

Unit

Title

Language Functions

Types of Input

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1

Making a Good Start at University
  • Summarizing and responding to information presented in posters, flyers, and maps
  • Posters
  • Flyers
  • Maps

 Unit 1

 Unit 1 Appendix

2

From Generation to Generation
  • Reporting common numbers in English
  • Referring to numerical data in tables
  • Tables
  • Numerical data

 Unit 2

 Unit 2 Appendix

3

What Do You Think?
  • Presenting survey results
  • Describing part-to-whole relationships in the data
  • Comparing the responses from different groups
  • Pie charts
  • Bar charts

 Unit 3

 Unit 3 Appendix

4

Changes and Trends
  • Analyzing changes over time
  • Predicting future trends
  • Line graphs

 Unit 4

 Unit 4 Appendix

5

Pesticides and Ecosystems
  • Describing processes in a flowchart
  • Classifying and defining
  • Flowcharts
  • Classification charts (tree maps)

 Unit 5

 Unit 5 Appendix

6

Crime Rates: Rising or Falling?
  • Summarizing the main points in an academic text
  • Integrating textual and graphical input
  • Expressing one's viewpoints
  • Academic texts
  • Charts and graphs

 Unit 6

 Unit 6 Appendix

7

AI Revolution in Health and Medicine
  • Summarizing the main points in an academic text
  • Integrating textual and graphical input
  • Expressing one's viewpoints
  • Academic texts
  • Charts and graphs

 Unit 7

 Unit 7 Appendix