Words
VOCABULARY
ACADEMIC WORD LIST. Sublist 5.
Find academic definitions of the words from AWL Sublists in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and learn them by heart. Give an example of how the word or collocation is used.
The list of words, definitions and practice tasks are available at www.englishvocabularyexersices.com/AWL.
Words from CAE lists must also be provided with definitions and examples.
Achieve (verb) | to successfully complete something or get a good result, especially by working hard. | Wilson has achieved considerable success as an artist. |
Bond (noun) | 1. an official document promising that a government or company will pay back money that it has borrowed 2. smth that unites two or more people or groups | 1. My father put all his money into stock market bonds. 2. They shared a common bond – a love of literature. |
1. Adjust(v)
2. Alter (v)
3. Amend (v)
4. Amendment (n)
5. Aware (adj)
6. Capacity (n)
7. Challenge (n; v)
8. Clause (n)
9. Conflict (n)
10. Consult (v)
11. Compound (n; v)
12. Decline (n; v)
13. Discrete (adj)
14. Draft (n)
15. Expose (v)
16. Margin (n)
17. monitor (v)
18. network (n)
19. Sustain (v)
20. Sustainable (adj)
21. Trend (n)
22. Welfare (n)
23. Whereas (conj)
24. Orient/ orientate (v)
25. Version (n)
26. Enable (v)
27. Entity (n)
28. Energy (n)
29. Expand (v)
30. Expansion (n)
31. Evolve (v)
32. External (adj)
33. Facilitate (v)
34. Fundamental (adj)
35. Generate (v)
36. Mental (adj)
37. Modify (v)
38. Notion (n)
39. Objective (n; adj)
40. Perspective (n)
41. Precise (adj)
42. Prime (adj)
43. Pursue (v)
44. Ratio(n)
45. Reject (v)
46. Revenue (n)
47. Substitute (v)
CAE Unit 5. Lecture Skills B.
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1. Age of weaning 2. Altitude (n) 3. Ancestor (n) 4. Arid (adj) 5. Assignment (n) 6. Advance and retreat 7. Consensus (n) 8. Collision (n) 9. Digestion (n) 10. Display (v) 11. Drought (n) 12. Fee (n) 13. Fossil records 14. GDP 15. Gender (n) 16. Subsidence (n) 17. Gene (n) 18. Hemisphere (n) 19. Hominids 20. Humid (adj) 21. Impact (n) | 22. Landmark (n) 23. Landscape features 24. Latitude (n) 25. Magnitude (n) 26. Offspring (n) 27. Outline (n) 28. Current (n) 29. Particle theory 30. Pass the traits 31. Satellite (n) 32. Slender (adj) 33. Side effect 34. Spatial (adj) 35. Spinning (adj) 36. Spread (v) 37. Submit (v) 38. Scarce (adj) 39. Scarcity (n) 40. Tilt (n) 41. Vulnerability (n) |
ACADEMIC WORD LIST. Sublist 6.
Find academic definitions of the words from AWL Sublists in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and learn them by heart. Give an example of how the word or collocation is used.
The list of words, definitions and practice tasks are available at www.englishvocabularyexersices.com/AWL.
Words from CAE lists must also be provided with definitions and examples.
Achieve (verb) | to successfully complete something or get a good result, especially by working hard. | Wilson has achieved considerable success as an artist. |
Bond (noun) | 1. an official document promising that a government or company will pay back money that it has borrowed 2. smth that unites two or more people or groups | 1. My father put all his money into stock market bonds. 2. They shared a common bond – a love of literature. |
1. Abstract (adj)
2. Accurate (adj)
3. Acknowledge (v)
4. Allocate (v)
5. Assign (v)
6. Attach (v)
7. Bond (n)
8. Brief (adj)
9. Cite (v)
10. Discriminate (v)
11. Display (n;v)
12. Enhance (v)
13. Estate (n)
14. Exceed (v)
15. Explicit (adj)
16. Federal (adj)
17. Fee (n)
18. Furthermore (adv)
19. Gender (n)
20. Ignorant (adj)
21. Incentive (n)
22. Incidence (n)
23. Incorporate (v)
24. Index (n)
25. Inhibit (v)
26. Input (n)
27. Intelligent (adj)
28. Migrate (v)
29. Nevertheless (adv)
30. Overseas (adv)
31. Precede (v)
32. Presume (v)
33. Rational (adj)
34. Rational (n)
35. Recover (v)
36. Reveal (v)
37. Scope (n)
38. Subsidy (n)
39. Trace (v)
40. Underlie (v)
41. Utilize (v)
ACADEMIC WORD LIST. Sublist 7.
1. Adapt (v)
2. Advocate (n)
3. Aid (n; v)
4. Channel (n; v)
5. Canal (n)
6. Chemical (n)
7. Comprehension (n)
8. Comprise (v)
9. Confirm (v)
10. Contrary (n) On the contrary
11. Convert (v)
12. Definite (adj)
13. Indefinite (adj)
14. Differentiate (v)
15. Dispose (v)
16. Eliminate (v)
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17. Empirical (adj)
18. Equip (v)
19. Extract (v)
20. Finite (adj)
21. Globe (n)
22. Grade (n)
23. Guarantee (v)
24. Hierarchy (n)
25. Identical (adj)
26. Infer (v)
27. Insert (v)
28. Intervene (v)
29. Isolate (v)
30. Media (n)
31. Mode (n)
32. Paradigm (n)
33. Phenomenon (n)
34. Priority (n)
35. Prohibit (v)
36. Quote (v)
37. Quotation (n)
38. Release (v)
39. Reverse (v)
40. Simulate (v)
41. Sole (adj)
42. Successor (n)
43. Thesis (n)
44. Transmit (v)
45. Ultimate (adj)
46. Unique (adj)
47. Visible (adj)
48. Voluntary (adj)
CAE Unit 6; Unit 7.
1. Abandon (v) 2. Aboriginal (adj) |
3. Accountable (adj) |
4. Acquire/acquisition |
5. Adolescence (n) |
6. Adopt (v) |
7. Affectionate (adj) |
8. Attribute to (v) |
9. Behind-the-scenes |
10. Breakthrough (n) |
11. By far (adv) |
12. Colleagues |
13. Community worker |
14. Commodity (n) |
15. Concept (n) |
16. Constraint (n) |
17. Contribute to (v) |
18. Conveyance (n) |
19. Counterpart (n) 20. Dimension (n) |
21. Diminish (v) |
22. Drive (n) |
23. Egalitarian roles |
24. Emerge (v) |
25. Engage (v) 26. Eligible for smth (adj) |
27. Entrepreneurship (n) 28. Eradicate (v) |
29. Exaggerate (v) |
30. Expenditure (n) 31. Fuel (v) |
32. Found (an organization)(v) |
33. Gender role |
34. Heredity (n) |
35. Inborn/innate (adj) 36. Inevitable (adj) |
37. Inextricably (adv) |
38. Inherited (adj) |
39. In-laws (n) |
40. Innate (adj) |
41. Innovation (n) |
42. Integrity (n) |
43. International affairs |
44. Interwoven (adj) 45. Interplay (n) 46. Justify (v) |
47. Latent (adj) |
48. Make distinction |
49. Male/female |
50. Milestone years |
51. Mother-in-law (n) |
52. Nature vs nurture |
53. Noteworthy (adj) |
54. On a daily basis |
55. Outweigh (v) |
56. Owe smb smth |
57. Percentage (n) |
58. Pharmaceutical (adj) |
59. Preach (n) |
60. Precursor (n) |
61. Predator (n) |
62. Prominent (adj) |
63. Proponent (n) |
64. R&D (n) |
65. Radically (adv) |
66. Ridicule (v) |
67. Seemingly (adv) |
68. Sibling (n) |
69. Social status |
70. Stamina (n) |
71. Striking (adj) |
72. Trait (n) |
73. Treatment(n) |
74. Unmet need |
75. Vice versa (adv) |
76. Vision (n) 77. Virulent (adj) |
78. Wage earner |
GRAMMAR.
Single-word and multi-word verbs
combine, communicate, display, create, transmit, occur, encounter, observe, arise, discover, quit, cancel, postpone, tolerate, investigate, calculate, test, omit, include, submit.
come up, leave out, put in, put up with, hand in, work out, call off, find out, put off, look into, put off, try out, build up, put across, come across, join in, send out, come about, lay out, look at, put together, give up.
Prepositions
regardless of, as opposed to, as distinct from, by means of, such as, in spite of, despite, with the exception of, as well as, according to, ahead of, prior to, rather than, due to, as to, up to, together with, engage in, related to, assign to, absorb into, determine by, depend on, associate with, participate in.
Relative clauses with What, Who, Where, When, That, Whose https://1drv.ms/p/s!ArsglA96TFcfguhY_E5X3GazjoJNEA?e=4xeonB
Abstract nouns with of+ing and to-infinitive
Academic skills
Hedging https://1drv.ms/p/s!ArsglA96TFcfgshGZvHW63CSPncvNg?e=LEq7Gt
Cohesion https://1drv.ms/p/s!ArsglA96TFcfgtpcYc53Z_FRXeZjgg?e=fIhdjB
Giving references CAE p 79, 91,167
Writing essay conclusions
Concluding your presentation
Using an academic style p.107
WRITING.
Write TWO 400-word essays and a 400-word report after doing some research.
For an essay:
Step 1.Choose at least three sources, read them and take notes.
Step 2. Write an OUTLINE and type it at the beginning of the essay.
Step 3. Upload your 400+ essay on Canvas in Retake Course. The essay must have in-text references and the bibliography at the end.
Step 4. Get ready to give a 3-min talk on the content of your essay.