4-0 Overview

4-1 Skills: Summarizing/Synthesizing

Students learn about listening skills related to summarizing and synthesizing information in the lecture.

4-2 Lecture

A post-listening vocabulary exercise prepares students for a lecture on the topic of motivation in the workplace; students listen to the lecture while answering questions.

4-1 Skills: Summarizing/Synthesizing

Students learn about reading skills related to summarizing and synthesizing information in Readings 1 and 2.

4-2 Reading 1: Motivation - An Overview of Modern Approaches in the Workforce

A post-reading vocabulary exercise prepares students for this timed reading.

4-3 Reading 2: Motivation Theory and Organizational Behaviour

A post-reading vocabulary exercise prepares students for this timed reading.

4-1 Tasks 4 and 5 Speaking Skills

Students learn about speaking skills that will help them with Tasks 4 and 5.

4-2 Task 4: Quote from an Academic Text

Students practice the fourth speaking task of the OLT.

4-3 Task 5: Explain a Choice

Students practice the fifth speaking task of the OLT.

4-1 Transitional Devices

Students learn how to correctly use transitional devices in their essays.

4-2 The Conclusion

Students learn how to develop an effective conclusion in a CAEL essay.

4-3 Timed Essay Writing

Students practice writing an essay based on the listening and reading sections of this unit.

4-4 Sample Essay

Students examine an essay written by a CAEL test taker with the help of the CAEL essay checklist.

4-1 Transition: Types of Conjunctions

Students learn about coordinating, correlative, and subordinating conjunctions, and conjunctive adverbs.

4-2 Academic Writing Register

Students learn about how to achieve the correct register in their essay writing.

4-3 Common Errors IV

Students practice the identification and correction of common writing errors.