Cambridge academic english

CAE is for any student who needs English for their academic studies.
Topics and texts will be of interest to students working in ALL SUBJECTS.

Martin Hewings
( the author)
Martin has taught English for over 30 years in many countries, including Sweden, Italy, Malaysia and Australia.
From 1985 to 2009 he taught English for Academic Purposes at the University of Birmingham and since then has been a freelance author and consultant.
www.cambridge.org/ru/cambridgeenglish/resources

Focus on Reading:
Authentic discipline-related texts
E.g. ‘Hofstede’s four dimensions of culture’
‘How are language choices influenced by the context in which communication takes place’
‘Differences in gender roles in different cultures’

Focus on Writing:
Research-based essays
‘As people live longer and medical cost rise, changes need to be made to the funding of health care. Discuss the options facing governments’
‘Discuss the benefits to humans of biodiversity
and outline the most important current threats to biodiversity’

Academic Corpus based vocabulary
Academic Word List
www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources
Extrinsic connotation assumption observe
divergent formulae biased implication

Lecture skills
Recorded lectures from University of Cambridge
by prominent lectures on
Biology
Engineering
Economics
Linguistics

Academic Study Skills