English for

11 
Answers
Learning 
model
Main 
concept
Learning 
activities
Features
Problems 
and
challenges
• Crowd 
learning
• Learning 
from others
• Sharing online 
social spaces
• Setting 
personal 
objectives
• Seeking 
resources
• Recording 
achievements
• Anyone can 
be a teacher
• Flexible and 
sporadic
• Both chance 
and goal 
driven
• Encourages 
self-
motivation 
and reflection
• Providing 
learners 
with ways 
to manage 
learning 
and offer 
contributions 
to others.
• Seamless 
learning
• Connecting 
learning 
experiences 
across 
contexts
• Collecting 
data
• Constructing 
new 
knowledge 
using 
software
• Sharing 
findings
• Connected 
learning 
experience
• Personally 
relevant
• We may 
come to 
believe that 
our views, 
etc. are all 
there is.
• Geo-
learning
• Learning 
within real-
world setting 
using mobile 
devices
• Doing 
fieldwork 
activities 
• Mixing digital 
information 
with the 
physical world
• Both formal 
and informal
• Enhances 
and frames 
subject 
matter
• We need 
to consider 
carefully 
how we
employ these 
opportunities 
for learning.
13 Put learners into groups of 4–5, putting people from 
different subject areas in the same group, if possible. 
Refer discussion leaders to page 166. Explain their role, 
if necessary, and that they are going to summarise the 
points their group makes to the whole class in Activity 16. 
14 Set this activity as homework. Encourage learners 
to use the language of the lesson while preparing for the 
discussion.
15 Ask learners to form the same groups as in Activity 13. 
Instruct group leaders to monitor the discussion.
Follow-up
16 Ask group leaders to summarise only the main points 
of the discussion and report them to the whole class. 
Encourage learners to ask questions.
Lesson 3 Your academic profile
Time: 90 minutes
By the end of this lesson, learners will be able to
➡
share ideas about what they do to be recognised 
internationally 
➡
identify language for writing an academic profile
➡
write an academic profile
Lead-in
1, 2 
Learners’ own answers.
Listening 
3 
Suggested answers 
1 She did a course on Moodle for teachers with her and they 
became Facebook friends. 
2 She sent a message to Nellie on Facebook. 
3 For her learning experience / encouraging her to explore
the program. 

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Lesson 3
Module 3
Language focus
11 
Answers
1 1 a past simple b present simple c present perfect
2 The first sentence lists the different things Dr Janiszewski does 
professionally. (It is the thesis statement.) Then each of the 
following paragraphs focuses on one of these things, starting 
with such phrases as ‘As a medical writer’ (paragraph 1), ‘As a 
researcher’ (paragraph 2) and ‘To aid in the dissemination of 
scientific knowledge … He blogs …’ (paragraph 3)
3 It is the convention in academia to write biographies in the 
third person. They can be published on personal or institutional 
sites. A shorter version is commonly requested by conference 
organisers as part of the call for papers. Biodata are then 
published in the conference programme.