English for

12 If you have time, you could ask learners to report what 
they have learnt from their classmates. 
Speaking
13–15 
Learners’ own answers.

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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 1
Optional: You may want to ask learners to correct the false 
statements. You could also ask them to identify what the 
participants are doing in these statements. Ask learners to 
work in pairs and think of the language that can be used 
for each of the functions, and write it on the board.
Answers
1 introducing the participants 2 disagreeing 3 interrupting 
4 taking the initiative 5, 6 agreeing/disagreeing 
7 drawing a conclusion
Audioscript 
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Moderator: Welcome to our round-table discussion. The topic 
of our talk is ‘Publish or Perish’, so we are going to discuss 
publishing matters in academia. Our participants today are 
Professor Ann Midway, Senior Researcher Dan Corner, and 
Dean Paul Waine. The first question is, why publish? Over to 
you, Ann.
Ann: Thank you. Writing scholarly publications is a crucial 
aspect of academic work … In short, publishing is crucial for 
research, your career, your own satisfaction.
Moderator: Dan, what’s your view on this?
Dan: I couldn’t agree more. All around the world universities are 
aspiring to higher international rankings, because university 
funding depends on research performance, and research 
performance is evaluated by the quality of publications. 
Nonetheless, some argue that the publish-or-perish 
imperative shifts the emphasis away from real teaching. 
Moderator: Sorry to interrupt you, but we’re going to discuss 
that issue later. The next question we have is, what is a good 
scholarly publication?