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Functional language for academic writing index pages
Quoting sources page – UPDATED
Comparing and contrasting page
Advantages and disadvantages page
Generalising/ hedging worksheets page
Purpose, cause and effect page
Photocopiable EAP functional language classroom activities
and see the index pages above for many more on defining your terms, quoting sources, etc
Comparing and contrasting academic writing tasks
Compare and contrast your writing (with a huge review of comparing/ contrasting language)
Certainty and uncertainty in Academic English (adverbs etc)
Classifying and ranking academic phrases (review of functional language for academic writing)
Longer academic phrases card game (ditto)
Academic Word List giving examples guessing game
Academic Word List advantages and disadvantages phrases practice
Academic Word List phrases for expressing purpose practice
Academic Word List trends language
Academic Word List comparing and contrasting phrases practice
Academic Word List vocabulary for expressing certainty and uncertainty
Academic Word List practice of expressing cause and effect
Expressing purpose and cause and effect (with lots of Academic Word list vocabulary in it)
Academic English language of concession
Updated 17 October 2025
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