Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading, Production/Writing Description: Exercise for practicing identification of topic sentences. Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfill a specific task. Can-Do: Reports and essays – can write short simple essays on topics of […]
Extended Rules for Quotation Marks
Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: General rules of when and where to use quotation marks. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Click to Open
Extended Rules for Commas
Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Additional rules on use of commas. Can-Do: Orthographic control – spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Click to Open
Examples of Good and Bad CVs
Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives examples of good and bad CVs. Click to Open
Dashes
Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: University of Wisconsin’s handout explains correct use of dashes to set off sentence elements, create tone and emphases. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Click […]
Dashes
Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing, Linguistic Competence Description: Explains correct use of dashes. Can-Do: Spelling, punctuation and layout are accurate enough to be followed most of the time. Grammatical Accuracy: Spelling and punctuation are reasonably accurate but may show signs of mother tongue influence. Click to Open
CV Checklist
Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: This website gives a list of things to check to ensure you write your CV as effectively as possible. Can-Do: Can summarize, report and give his/her opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within his/her field with some confidence. Click to Open
Connectors as “Linking Words”
Level: B1-B2 Skill/Activity: Reception/Reading Production/Writing Pragmatic Competence Description: Connectors may be described as the ‘glue’ that binds together a piece of writing, making the different parts of the text ‘stick together’. Deals with types of relationships between sentences as well as relationships between paragraphs. Can-Do: Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with […]
Citing References in Your Paper
Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different reference formats – this resource provides different sets of guidelines, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian documentation styles. CEFR Academic Domain Click to Open
Citation Guide
Level: B2 Skill/Activity: Production/Writing Description: Different journals require different formats – this resource provides guidelines for APA, MLA and Chicago styles. Not connected to can-dos. CEFR Academic Domain Click to Open
