C21 Academic Skills is a downloadable set of materials for students who use English in an academic context. It develops study skills and life skills from the C21 English for the 21^st Century course, adding much more detail and completely new areas of focus relevant to the academic world. There are 96 individual skills, each including a lesson’s worth of succinct, focused study materials. Every skill includes three components:

• Factsheet – gives information about the skill, including the academic context, key features and examples of its application.
• Worksheet – contains exercises for practising and developing the skill.
• Teacher’s notes – gives teachers all the information they need to teach the material, including answer keys and transcripts.

Levelling and approach
Each skill is allocated to a C21 level bracket – Levels 1 & 2, Levels 3 & 4, or Level 5. Within each bracket there are 32 skills – 8 each for listening, speaking, reading and writing. Although the language skills are dealt with separately, there are sometimes suggestions for using the material as part of an integrated-skills approach. The large number of skills allows for a deep, comprehensive coverage of topics as diverse as avoiding plagiarism, interpreting graphs and managing questions in a Q&A.

Using the material
Each skill can be used for independent study or as a complete, self-contained lesson. The Teacher’s notes include suggestions for pairwork, group-work and discussion activities. The Factsheet can be used before the lesson, as an introduction; during the lesson, as a prompt; or after the lesson, as a revision tool. The complete set of materials for each skill, including the audio files, can be downloaded by the teacher or by the student.