From EAP to EPIC
Do you need to help your teaching staff implement the knowledge and values of the CEFR Companion Volume (CEFR-CV)? "From EAP to EPIC" (English for Purposes of International Communication) is an online ‘learning by doing’ professional development program that can do just that. The program takes practitioners through some of the core principles of the CEFR-CV in a friendly and effective manner. See our interactive syllabus below and get a feel for the course. The program can be administered in either hybrid or completely asynchronous formats. If you are interested, please let us know at
cefr@macam.ac.il.
Introducing ‘From EAP to EPIC’
Getting to Know the 2020 CEFR
Click on each unit to learn more
Focusing on Vocabulary
Exploring the Sample Unit
Sample Unit
Mediation
Reception
Production
Interaction
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Unit 1
This unit provides a general introduction about the move to EPIC - English for the Purposes of International Communication and the general principles of the module. The unit begins to build a base from which to explore the three pillars of EPIC – real-world communicative needs, action-oriented approach, and integration of 4 modes of communication. This base will enable participants to start adapting their lesson plans in order to implement what they learn in the module.
Independent Study:
Units 1- 4
Weeks 1-3 | 6 hours
Reception
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Production
Interaction
Unit 2
This unit familiarizes participants with the 2020 revised version of the CEFR. Participants will practice benchmarking examples of students’ reading and writing tasks according to CEFR levels. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to practice adapting or creating can do descriptors as a means of clarifying the types of outcomes – and tasks – they want their students to work towards.
Independent Study:
Units 1- 4
Weeks 1-3 | 6 hours
Reception
Introducing ‘From EAP to EPIC’
Getting to Know the 2020 CEFR
Focusing on Vocabulary
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Sample Unit
Production
Interaction
Mediation
Exploring the Sample Unit
Let’s benchmark a task together
Unit 3
This unit demonstrates our suggested approach to vocabulary and provides participants with a practical set of steps for building their own Vocab Action Plan, based on their own course materials. This unit provides participants with the opportunity to use text-profiling technology to make informed, data-based decisions regarding which words in their course materials to focus on first.
Independent Study:
Units 1- 4
Weeks 1-3 | 6 hours
Reception
Introducing ‘From EAP to EPIC’
Getting to Know the 2020 CEFR
Focusing on Vocabulary
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Sample Unit
Production
Interaction
Mediation
Exploring the Sample Unit
Building your own Vocab Action Plan
Unit 4
The unit presents a sample Unit of Study with the rationale, students' activities and tasks, as well as suggestions for teachers. This unit demonstrates how the “puzzle pieces” fit together and how key components of the module can be implemented in the classroom. This unit also helps participants identify how an EPIC unit differs from our traditional EAP units.
Independent Study:
Units 1- 4
Weeks 1-3 | 6 hours
Reception
Introducing ‘From EAP to EPIC’
Getting to Know the 2020 CEFR
Focusing on Vocabulary
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Sample Unit
Production
Interaction
Mediation
Exploring the Sample Unit
Facilitated Study: Zoom Meeting with Group
Week 4 | 1.5 hours
Unit 5 - Mediation
This mode of communication centers around adapting and adjusting our messages to build bridges between people and across contexts. The unit unpacks Mediation, identifies its core building blocks, and demonstrates what Mediation activities can look like in the classroom. The unit focuses on Mediation as a set of lenses – types of questions students need to ask themselves to communicate appropriately and effectively in the other three modes of communication. Because Mediation is so closely interwoven with these other modes, the unit on Mediation comes before we spotlight Reception, Production and Interaction.
Reception
Introducing ‘From EAP to EPIC’
Getting to Know the 2020 CEFR
Focusing on Vocabulary
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Sample Unit
Production
Interaction
Mediation
Exploring the Sample Unit
Independent Study:
Unit 5
Weeks 5-6 | 4 hours
Facilitated Study: Zoom Meeting with Group
Week 6 | 1.5 hours
Unit 6 - Reception
(Reading and Listening)
This unit demonstrates how reading and listening are repositioned and integrated into larger tasks. The central focus in this unit is on providing students with opportunities to integrate information, construct meaning, and write down their thoughts and understandings – all in preparation for another task.
Independent Study:
Unit 5
Reception
Introducing ‘From EAP to EPIC’
Getting to Know the 2020 CEFR
Focusing on Vocabulary
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Sample Unit
Production
Interaction
Mediation
Exploring the Sample Unit
Weeks 6-7 | 4 hours
Facilitated Study: Zoom Meeting with Group
Week 8 | 1.5 hours
Unit 7 - Production
(Speaking and Writing)
This unit focuses on how to prepare students for the real world by providing them with opportunities to work on articulating and delivering their ideas as appropriately and as effectively as possible to different audiences.
Independent Study:
Unit 5
Reception
Introducing ‘From EAP to EPIC’
Getting to Know the 2020 CEFR
Focusing on Vocabulary
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Sample Unit
Production
Interaction
Mediation
Exploring the Sample Unit
Weeks 9-11 | 8 hours
Unit 8
The unit focuses on equipping students with the tools they need to ‘think on their feet’ and communicate more easily in real-time: to know what to say or ask, and how to respond.
Independent Study:
Unit 5
Weeks 9-11 | 8 hours
Reception
Introducing ‘From EAP to EPIC’
Getting to Know the 2020 CEFR
Focusing on Vocabulary
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Sample Unit
Production
Interaction
Mediation
Exploring the Sample Unit
Facilitated Study: Zoom Meeting with Group
Week 12 | 1.5 hours
planning an Interaction task
Unit 9
The purpose of Unit 9 is to tie all of the work done in the previous units together in a unit outline that applies the lessons of the module and can be used as a resource in future teaching. This unit outline should be action-oriented, incorporating all four modes of communication within a real-world scenario and for a real-world task, and thus aligned in both letter and spirit to the 2020 CEFR.
Independent Study:
Unit 5
Weeks 13-14 | 3 hours
Reception
Introducing ‘From EAP to EPIC’
Getting to Know the 2020 CEFR
Focusing on Vocabulary
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Sample Unit
Production
Interaction
Mediation
Exploring the Sample Unit
Facilitated Study: Zoom Meeting with Group
Week 15 | 2 hours
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From EAP to EPIC
Do you need to help your teaching staff implement the knowledge and values of the CEFR Companion Volume (CEFR-CV)? "From EAP to EPIC" (English for Purposes of International Communication) is an online ‘learning by doing’ professional development program that can do just that. The program takes practitioners through some of the core principles of the CEFR-CV in a friendly and effective manner. See our interactive syllabus below and get a feel for the course. The program can be administered in either hybrid or completely asynchronous formats. If you are interested, please let us know at
cefr@macam.ac.il.
Introducing ‘From EAP to EPIC’
Getting to Know the 2020 CEFR
Click on each unit to learn more
Focusing on Vocabulary
Exploring the Sample Unit
Sample Unit
Mediation
Reception
Production
Interaction
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Unit 1
This unit provides a general introduction about the move to EPIC - English for the Purposes of International Communication and the general principles of the module. The unit begins to build a base from which to explore the three pillars of EPIC – real-world communicative needs, action-oriented approach, and integration of 4 modes of communication. This base will enable participants to start adapting their lesson plans in order to implement what they learn in the module.
Independent Study: Units 1- 4
Weeks 1-3 | 6 hours
Reception
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Production
Interaction
Unit 2
This unit familiarizes participants with the 2020 revised version of the CEFR. Participants will practice benchmarking examples of students’ reading and writing tasks according to CEFR levels. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to practice adapting or creating can do descriptors as a means of clarifying the types of outcomes – and tasks – they want their students to work towards.
Independent Study: Units 1- 4
Weeks 1-3 | 6 hours
Reception
Introducing ‘From EAP to EPIC’
Getting to Know the 2020 CEFR
Focusing on Vocabulary
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Sample Unit
Production
Interaction
Mediation
Exploring the Sample Unit
Let’s benchmark a task together
Unit 3
This unit demonstrates our suggested approach to vocabulary and provides participants with a practical set of steps for building their own Vocab Action Plan, based on their own course materials. This unit provides participants with the opportunity to use text-profiling technology to make informed, data-based decisions regarding which words in their course materials to focus on first.
Independent Study: Units 1- 4
Weeks 1-3 | 6 hours
Reception
Introducing ‘From EAP to EPIC’
Getting to Know the 2020 CEFR
Focusing on Vocabulary
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Sample Unit
Production
Interaction
Mediation
Exploring the Sample Unit
Building your own Vocab Action Plan
Unit 4
The unit presents a sample Unit of Study with the rationale, students' activities and tasks, as well as suggestions for teachers. This unit demonstrates how the “puzzle pieces” fit together and how key components of the module can be implemented in the classroom. This unit also helps participants identify how an EPIC unit differs from our traditional EAP units.
Independent Study: Units 1- 4
Weeks 1-3 | 6 hours
Reception
Introducing ‘From EAP to EPIC’
Getting to Know the 2020 CEFR
Focusing on Vocabulary
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Sample Unit
Production
Interaction
Mediation
Exploring the Sample Unit
Facilitated Study: Zoom Meeting with Group
Week 4 | 1.5 hours
Unit 5 - Mediation
This mode of communication centers around adapting and adjusting our messages to build bridges between people and across contexts. The unit unpacks Mediation, identifies its core building blocks, and demonstrates what Mediation activities can look like in the classroom. The unit focuses on Mediation as a set of lenses – types of questions students need to ask themselves to communicate appropriately and effectively in the other three modes of communication. Because Mediation is so closely interwoven with these other modes, the unit on Mediation comes before we spotlight Reception, Production and Interaction.
Reception
Introducing ‘From EAP to EPIC’
Getting to Know the 2020 CEFR
Focusing on Vocabulary
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Sample Unit
Production
Interaction
Mediation
Exploring the Sample Unit
Independent Study: Unit 5
Weeks 5-6 | 4 hours
Facilitated Study: Zoom Meeting with Group
Week 6 | 1.5 hours
Unit 6 - Reception
(Reading and Listening)
This unit demonstrates how reading and listening are repositioned and integrated into larger tasks. The central focus in this unit is on providing students with opportunities to integrate information, construct meaning, and write down their thoughts and understandings – all in preparation for another task.
Independent Study: Unit 5
Reception
Introducing ‘From EAP to EPIC’
Getting to Know the 2020 CEFR
Focusing on Vocabulary
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Sample Unit
Production
Interaction
Mediation
Exploring the Sample Unit
Weeks 6-7 | 4 hours
Facilitated Study: Zoom Meeting with Group
Week 8 | 1.5 hours
Unit 7 - Production
(Speaking and Writing)
This unit focuses on how to prepare students for the real world by providing them with opportunities to work on articulating and delivering their ideas as appropriately and as effectively as possible to different audiences.
Independent Study: Unit 5
Reception
Introducing ‘From EAP to EPIC’
Getting to Know the 2020 CEFR
Focusing on Vocabulary
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Sample Unit
Production
Interaction
Mediation
Exploring the Sample Unit
Weeks 9-11 | 8 hours
Unit 8
The unit focuses on equipping students with the tools they need to ‘think on their feet’ and communicate more easily in real-time: to know what to say or ask, and how to respond.
Independent Study: Unit 5
Weeks 9-11 | 8 hours
Reception
Introducing ‘From EAP to EPIC’
Getting to Know the 2020 CEFR
Focusing on Vocabulary
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Sample Unit
Production
Interaction
Mediation
Exploring the Sample Unit
Facilitated Study: Zoom Meeting with Group
Week 12 | 1.5 hours
planning an Interaction task
Unit 9
The purpose of Unit 9 is to tie all of the work done in the previous units together in a unit outline that applies the lessons of the module and can be used as a resource in future teaching. This unit outline should be action-oriented, incorporating all four modes of communication within a real-world scenario and for a real-world task, and thus aligned in both letter and spirit to the 2020 CEFR.
Independent Study: Unit 5
Weeks 13-14 | 3 hours
Reception
Introducing ‘From EAP to EPIC’
Getting to Know the 2020 CEFR
Focusing on Vocabulary
Planning an Integrated Unit of Study
Sample Unit
Production
Interaction
Mediation
Exploring the Sample Unit
Facilitated Study: Zoom Meeting with Group
Week 15 | 2 hours