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The product of the year-long ESP Materials Design Partnership Project is now available for download. B2 Ready is not a typical textbook, though it can be used very well as one. It is a collection of English language learning activities based on principles of language teaching and learning produced by thirty teachers from across Uzbekistan and the materials design specialist, Dee Broughton.

When used as a textbook, the intended audience is students who are preparing for or beginning university study who wish to raise their language level from high B1 to B2 while attaining fundamental academic writing skills.

When used by materials designers, B2 Ready is an example of effective activities that designers can use as templates as they write their own textbooks.

B2 Ready focuses on B2 level because it is the level of the “independent user.” An independent user of English will be able to learn new information using English. This is very important because a huge amount of academic information is freely available in English via the internet.

Becoming an independent user of English requires a good command of, at least, the 2000 most common words of English and some additional academic vocabulary. B2 Ready focuses on this vocabulary level with 92% of its texts in this range. Many of the words in B2 Ready that outside this range were carefully chosen to be cognates of Uzbek and Russian so that they will be easily understood by many Central Asian readers.

For students in a university setting, the B2 level is also an appropriate level to begin focusing on developing academic writing skills. Academic writing is characterized by appropriate, accurate use of sources. B2 Ready strives to give students a foundation in awareness and use of sources as well as exposure to use of appropriate structures in academic writing. In preparation for doing high-level academic work, B2 Ready activities focus on helping students develop higher-level thinking skills, with emphasis on application of information, analysis, and evaluation.

From beginning to end, B2 Ready is a model of rich, authentic English on a wide variety of interesting topics. All texts are designed to model responsible use of intellectual property. All texts illustrate accurate use of sources, and all texts are legally available for use, using either public domain, creative commons, reprint with permission, or proper quotation and citation.

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B2 Ready: Academic Writing

This free, download-only version of B2 Ready: Academic Writing offers foundational skills of academic writing in 27 concise StudyDo lessons, including two practice units from the original B2 Ready to help students apply the new skills they learn. In just a few weeks of work, students can be ready to write short summary-response articles, the most common kind of academic writing assignment in many universities around the world.

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B2 Ready: Academic Writing uses the StudyDo design.

Each lesson begins with a Study section where learners read correct authentic language they can understand. Each Study section is followed by a Do section where learners apply information from the reading or express their own ideas.

All StudyDo books are designed to be easy to teach – to require no additional materials or preparation, to be simple for even new or inexperienced teachers to follow, and to be inexpensive to print on regular A4-size paper, so students can have copies to write on.

Is B2 Ready: Academic Writing right for your students?

If your students can read and understand text at high B1 level, they have enough language to benefit from B2 Ready and B2 Ready: Academic Writing.  
There are many resources that help students learn academic writing, but they assume that students have some experience with this kind of writing and have certain fundamental skills. If your students have little experience with academic writing, they may not have enough fundamental knowledge to take advantage of those other resources. B2 Ready: Academic Writing can help them bridge that gap, so they can better understand more advanced lessons from other sources.

 
 
 
If your students still need to build vocabulary and reading skills before using B2 Ready: Academic Writing, the original B2 Ready introduces more fundamental concepts in writing and offers more level appropriate reading to build vocabulary to the B2 Level.

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Younger students and students below B1 level will benefit most from using the StudyDo Bridges books to build vocabulary, reading, speaking, writing skills before moving into university level writing concepts.

Download StudyDo’s Bridges to Academic Writing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The original StudyDo book, Bridges, supports teachers in helping students develop English proficiency. The book works to bridge the gap between understanding English and producing it. It was especially created for use in large monolingual classrooms with new teachers who need to build confidence in students speaking abilities.
 
 
Download the original StudyDo Bridges.