Framework First – Introducing Academic Writing and Critical Thinking Teacher’s Guide

Framework First – Introducing Academic Writing and Critical Thinking Teacher’s Guide

Framework First – Academic Writing and Critical Thinking is a lower level of the course book – Framework.

This new level includes:

• Writing skills: Organising paragraphs; the writing process; academic style; giving opinions; describing a graph; describing devices/machines; describing past events

• Critical thinking: Asking questions; checking facts; academic values; giving reasons; ‘lazy thinking’; using evidence; the scientific method; ‘thinking about thinking’

• Language: Sentence building; cohesion in a paragraph; types of clause; language of science; past/present tenses; passive sentences; expressing the future; linking words

• Vocabulary building: Prefixes; word families; synonyms and antonyms; participles

• Academic and general interest topics: Advertising; natural and man-made disasters; perfume; innovations (drones, electric cars domestic robots); biographies

• Level: Framework First is a course aimed at: IELTS – 4 to 5, CEFR – A2 to B1

Language: GB

Level: A2 Elementary

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Richard Harrison – Canford Publishing