English for

5 Ask learners to read Text 1 for detail.
Answers
1 The book is written in a clear and thoughtful style.
2 Brackets are used to introduce abbreviations, e.g. the name of 
the Institute, to use them later to save space and to refer to a 
particular chapter.

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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 2
Module 2
Lesson 2 Literature reviews
Time: 90 minutes
By the end of this lesson, learners will be able to
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use different strategies to understand unknown words in 
context
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survey literature review sections of academic articles
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paraphrase and summarise information from academic 
articles
Lead-in
1 
Suggested answers
In all the sections (Introduction, Methods and Materials, 
Discussion and Conclusions), except, probably, the Results 
section. There is little need to refer to other researchers when 
describing your own results.
Reading
2 Before learners start this activity, remind them that they 
have already read the abstract of this article. Ask them to 
skim Text 1 quickly and identify the topic (grazing).
It is important to develop learners’ ability to understand 
the meaning of words without using a dictionary. There 
are different strategies that can be used: guessing from the 
context with the help of other words around; noting the 
similarity of a word with one in L1; the similarity of a word 
with another word in English; thinking about what part of 
speech a word is.
Learners’ own answers.
3 You could also ask learners to identify what section of 
an academic article Text 1 belongs to (the Introduction).