Section outline

  • Academic Success, Well-Being & Self-Management

    Essential Question

    1. What makes a student not simply survive university, but genuinely thrive?

    University life requires much more than attending lectures and passing exams.

    Students need to learn how to:

    manage time • meet deadlines • maintain motivation • deal with pressure • study independently • seek support • communicate professionally • collaborate with others • protect their well-being • take responsibility for their own progress

    These are not only university skills.

    They are future professional skills.

     

    LEARNING OUTCOMES

    By the end of this module, students should be able to:

    ➔    understand medium-length texts about student life, learning, stress and academic success;

    ➔    identify main ideas, supporting details and implied meaning;

    ➔    recognize paraphrased information;

    ➔    distinguish closely related vocabulary;

    ➔    use academic and study-related collocations accurately;

    ➔    understand dependent prepositions;

    ➔    complete contextual grammar and vocabulary gaps;

    ➔    use Present Perfect appropriately;

    ➔    use modal verbs to express obligation, advice and necessity;

    ➔    use First Conditional structures for planning and problem-solving;

    ➔    understand common academic instructions;

    ➔    discuss study habits and well-being using B1+/B2 vocabulary;

    ➔perform introductory UEE-style Reading and Use of English tasks.