How we learn William Glasser 10% of what we read . 20% of what we hear . 30% of what we see .

1. How we learnWilliam Glasser 10% of what we read. 20% of what we hear. 30% of what we see. 50% of what we see & hear. 70% of what we discussed with others. 80% of what we experienced personally. 95% of what we teach to someone else. - Learning does not take place, when a student gets something right. Learning usually takes place after a student has got something wrong, and begins to understand why it is wrong.

2. General English for University Students (GUfUS) -The Course This course prepares students to study wholly or partly in English medium at tertiary level, or to join the world of academic English, on the internet and in print.

3. - Aims In this course, students learn to understand the main types of academic spoken language, lectures and tutorials, and the main types of academic written language, journal articles and encyclopedia entries. They also learn to produce the main kinds of student academic language, oral presentations, contributions to a tutorial and written assignments.

4. Note// The focus is on EAP in GEfUS, which is: 1- Analytical language 2- Objective 3- Intellectual 4- Serious 5- Impersonal 6- Formal

5. - Three mission statements 1- To take the language learner from what they already know, to what they need to know. 2- to move the language learner from ‘What& When’ to ‘How & Why’ (Critical Thinking ). In this way, students are encouraged to ask why and how throughout the course, and to react to information, and to ask why something is happened or why it is important.

6. They are shown the importance of evaluating information and looking for stance or bias on the part of the speaker or writer. 3- Focus! • The themes (Sequential) This course comprises five themes, covering a wide range of areas of human knowledge. Also, the themes are come from Encyclopedia Britannica.

7. Theme 1: Education Theme2: Psychology and sociology Theme3: Work and business Theme4: Science and nature Theme5: The physical world • The sections & lessons Within each theme there are four main sections, each dealing with a discrete skill: listening,speaking,reading and writing. A number of related topics are explored

8. Within each theme. For example, in Theme1 The following areas are explored: Listening(receptive): welcome talks for students starting at an English-medium university. Speaking(productive):systems of educations and qualities of good teachers. Reading(receptive): living and working at university Writing(productive):completing an application form & writing a personal statement.

9. The focus in each section is on one specific skill. Each skill section contains five lessons, and each lesson has a clear focus and purpose. The format is always the same in every lesson, as the following: 1-Vocabulary for the skill: to ensure that students understand and can recognize some basic vocabulary needed for the theme, i.e. develops theme-related vocabulary & develops knowledge. 2- Real-time practice: to practice a skill with the students’ available linguistic resources,

10. i.e. it activates knowledge, and tests real-time skill application. 3- Learning skills: identifies and teaches new skills. 4-Grammar for the skill: introduces useful, skill based, syntactic grammar. 5-Applying skills: to apply the activity and skills learnt in the 3rd and 4th lessons of the section to a new text. Skills Themes k Lessons 5-4-5

11. Additional pages Every them contains 3 additional pages: 1- Everyday English: this page is in the speaking section & build skills in survival language and social English. 2- Knowledge quiz: this page is in the reading section & tests students on their acquisition of common core knowledge and thematic vocabulary from the theme.

12. 3- portfolio: usually three pages- comes at the very end of each theme and provides an opportunity to integrate skills learnt during the course.