English for

Lesson 2 An effective lecture
Time: 90 minutes
By the end of this lesson, learners will be able to
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identify and evaluate criteria for an effective lecture
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express their opinions about the structure and effectiveness 
of a lecture they listened to
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identify the language of classification
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write a draft of a lecture
Lead-in 
1 
Learners’ own answers.
Reading
2 
Suggested answers
Positive attitude: a speaker who has something to share; 
interactivity; specialists; use jokes, real-life examples, slides, 
video; lively presentation, good narration, talk to students, ask 
questions, tell stories, and personality of the speaker if he is 
interested in the subject; the best way to get facts across; way to 
get information that students can’t get from other sources
Negative attitude: best sleeping pill (boring); professor reads 
the material in a quiet, monotonous voice; no eye contact, no 
opportunity to talk to the professor or classmates; nothing new or 
different from the course book
3 Draw learners’ attention to the fact that the first and 
the last words in the sentence are punctuated with the 
capital letter and the full stop respectively, and that words 
in lists (with and, or and commas) can be put in any order.

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English for Academics Book 2 Teacher’s Guide
© Cambridge University Press and British Council Russia 2015
www.cambridge.org/elt/english-for-academics
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Lesson 3
Module 3
Er … if we want to be effective communicators, we should 
know at least the fundamentals of this theory in order to build 
a good rapport with people, give the right signals ourselves 
and be able to read nonverbal cues of others. But … a word 
of warning … It’s dangerous to make universal, general rules 
about all people; some behaviours reveal individual traits 
… And more importantly, nonverbal messages are greatly 
influenced by culture. For example, the meaning of a gesture 
in one culture may be very different in another culture.
So, to expand our knowledge in this area, your team project 
work will be to research peculiarities of nonverbal behaviour 
in different cultures and present your results in class. The 
guidelines for the project and deadlines are posted on the site. 
Please don’t …