Exercises from cambridge academic English upper Intermediate textbook

Word units

Academic Word List Sublist 1

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. analyze (v)
2. approach (n)
3. area (n)
4. assess (v)
5. assessment (n)
6. assume (v)
7. available (adj)
8. benefit (n)
9. concept (n)
10. consist of (v)
11. constitute (v)
12. data (n)
13. define (v)
14. derive (v)
15. distribute (v)
16.  economy (n)
17. Economics (n)
18. Economical (adj)
19. environment (n)
20. establish (v)
21. estimate (v)
22. evident (adj)
23. evidence (n)
24. export (n)
25. factor (n)
26. finance (n)
27. formula (n)
28. indicate (v)
29.  identify (v)
30. income (n)
31. issue (n)
32. interpret (v)
33. involve (v)
34. labour (n)
35. legal (adj)
36. major (adj)
37.  major (n)
38.  legislate (v)

39. occur (v)

  40. occurrence (n)

  41. percent (adj, adv)

  42. percentage (n)

43. policy (n) 

44. proceed (v)

45. vary (v)

46. require (v)

47. research (n)

Units 0-1. CAE Book.

1. Analysis (n)- analyses	28. Finite-infinite (adj)
2. Article (n)	29.Fund (v)
3. Acknowledge (n)	30. Outcome (n)
4. Scholarship (n)	31.Hispanic (adj)
5. Assumption (n)	32.Funding (n)
6. Bibliography (n)	33.Justify (v)
7. Affect (v)	34. Monograph (n)
8. Branch (n)	35. Minority (n)
9. Campus (n)	36.Citation (n)
10. Cause (v;n)	37.Phenomenon (n)
11. Effect (n)	38.  Tutorial (n)
12. Communicable (adj)	39. Peer pressure
13. Common knowledge	40. Plagiarism (n)
14. Critical thinking	41. Prioritize (v)
15. Debate (n)	42.Supervisor (n)
16. Degree (n)	43. Questionnaire (n)
17. Determine (v)	44.  Sustainable (adj)
18. Developed countries  19. stockholder (n)	45. Seminar (n)        46. stakeholder (n)        47. Social responsibility
20. Developing countries	48.  Quotation (n)
21. Dissertation (n)	49. Minority (n)
22. Distinguish (v)	50. Welfare (n)
23. Draft (n)	51. Hand in (v)
23. grade (n)	52.  Welfare capitalism
24. fee (n)	53. Review (n)
25. Expand (v) 26. Extension (n) 27. Revision	54. phenomenon (n)       55. Enterprise (n)         free  enterprise (n)

Unit 2. CAE Book.

1. Purchase (n, v)	23. Infrastructure (n)
2. Accidents (n)	24. Exacerbate (v)
3. Blizzard (n)  4. Chart: bar chart, flow chart, pie chart	25. Expenditure (n)
5. Consequentially (adv)	26. Famine (n)
6. Constitute (v)	27. Flood (n)
7. Consume (v)	28. Hailstorm (n)
8. Consumption (n)	29. Hurricane (n)
9. Contamination (n)	30.Landslide (n)
10. Crop destruction(n)	31.LEDCs
11. Cyclone (n)	32.Loading (n)
12. Disease outbreak	33.Loss of fertility
13. Drowning (n)	34.Loss of life
14. Earthquake (n)	35.Manufacture (n,v)
15. Endorse (v)	36.Market share
16. Endorsement (n)	37.MEDCs
17. Surge (n)	38.Natural disasters(n)
18. Tidal waves	39.Occurrence (n)
19. Trigger (v)	40. Originate (v)
20. Urban areas	41.Tidal waves
21. Wind velocity
22. Entrepreneur (n)

Academic Word List Sublist 2

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

 

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. acquire (v)

1. affect (v)
2. administer (v)
3. appropriate (adj)
4. assist (v)
5. category (n)
6. chapter (n)
7. commission (n)
8. community (n)
9. conduct (v)
10. consequent (adj)
11. consume (v)
12. complex (adj)
13. conclude (v)
14. credit (n)
15. distinct (adj)
16. design (n)
17. distinct (adj)
18. element (n)
19. evaluate (v)
20. feature (n)
21. final (adj)
22. focus (v)
23. impact (n)
24. institute (n)
25. item (n)
26. maintain (v)
27. maintenance (n)
28. normal (adj)
29. obtain (v)
30. participate (v)
31. perceive (v)
32. perception (n)
33. previous (adj
34. purchase (v)
35. range (n)
36. region (n)
37. relevant (adj)
38. resource (n)
39. restrict (v)
40. reside (v)
41. resident (n)
42. site (n)
43. secure (v)
44. strategy (n)
45. survey (n)
46. transfer (v)

Academic Word List Sublist 3

F ind 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

1. alternative (adj)
2. circumstance (n)
3. comment (v)
4. component (n)
5. consent (n)
6. constrain (v)
7. contribute(v)
8. coordinate (v)
9. core (n)
10. correspond (v)
11. criteria (n)
12. deduce (v)
13. deduction (n)
14. dominate (v)
15. emphasis (n)
16. ensure (v)
17. exclude (v)
18. framework (n)
19. immigrate (v)
20. imply(v)
21. initial (adj)
22. instance (n)
23. interact (v)
24. justify (v)
25. layer (n)
26. locate (v)
27. maximize (v)
28. minor (adj)
29. outcome (n)
30. partner (n)
31. philosophy (n)
32. physical (adj)
33. proportion (n)  
34. register (v)
35. rely (v)
36. remove (v)
37. scheme (n)  
38. sequence (n)
39. specify (v)
40. technical (adj)
41. technique (n)
42. valid (adj)
43. volume (n)

Unit 3. Unit 4. CAE Book.

1. argue (v)
2. APA referencing style
3. behind-the-scenes (adv)
4. biodiversity (n)
5. bureaucracy (n)
6. ally (n)
7. brackets (n)
8. carry out smth
9. catastrophe (n)
10. claim (n)
11. charge (a price)
12. cultural awareness
13. cultural identity
14. consider (v)
15. consistent (adj)
16. conventional (adj)
17. conveyance (n)
18. counterpart (n)
19. corn (n)
20. diverse (adj)
21. drive (n)
22. economic (adj)
23. economical (adj)
24. entity (n)
25. emerge (v)
26. explicit (adj)
27. footnote (n)
28. wheat (n)
29. genre (n)
30. hierarchy (n); hierarchical (adj)
31. intangible benefits
32. ICT
33. Digital divide
34. implicit (adj)
35. integrity (n)
36. institutional (adj)
37. implement(v)
38. implementation (n)
39. in-text reference
40. induce (v)
41. landline phone
42. literacy (n)
43. metaphorically
44. milestone (n)
45. nutrient (n)
46. outsourcing (n)
47. owe smb smth
48. primary source
49. rural areas
50. sustenance (n); sustainable (adj)
51. stereotype
52. superscript
53. tele- medicine
54. timber (n)

 

 

Academic Word List Sublist 4

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

Sublist 4.

1. access (n)

2. adequate (n)

3. annual (adj)

4. apparent (adj)  

5. approximate (adj)

6. attitude (n)

7. attribute(n)

8. civil (adj)

9. code (n)

10. commit (v)

11. conduct (n; v)

12. contrast (n)

13. confer (v)

14. cycle (n)

15. despite (preposition)

16. dimension (n

17. domestic (adj)

18. ethnic (adj)

19. error (n)

20. goal (n)  

21. grant (v)

22. hence (adv)

23. hypothesis (n)

24. implicate (v)

25. impose (v)

26. integrate (v)

27. internal (adj)

28. investigate (v)

29. label (v)

30. obvious (adj)

31. occupy (v)

32. option (n)

33. output (n)

34. overall (adj)

35. parallel (adj)

36. parameter (n)

37. principle (adj)

38. prior (adj)

39. project (n)

40. promote (v)

41. regime(n)

42. resolve (v)

43. retain (v)

44. series (n) 

45. subsequent (adj)

46. sum (n)

47. summary (n)

48. status (n)

49. stress (n)

50. statistic (n) [ singular ];

51. statistics [countable usually plural]

52. undertake(v)

 

 

EXERCISES FROM CAMBRIDGE ACADEMIC ENGLISH Upper Intermediate Textbook.

Ex.6,p.13; Ex.9, p.21; Ex.2,3 pp.24-25;

Ex.4,p.28; Ex.8, p.30; Ex.2,p.36; Ex 4, p.37;

Ex.6,p.45; Ex.10, p.49; Ex.11,p.51; Ex.2,3, pp.52-53;

Ex.5,p.57; Ex.10, p.61; Ex.1,p.64; Ex.2, p.65.

 

ESSAYS CAE PART 1

Instructions.

Write  three  ESSAYS by hand in your notebooks after doing research.

· For an essay:

Choose at least two sources (videos and texts) and make notes using any method (page 45).

Write an essay 300+ words.

The essay must have in - test references and the bibliography at the end.

· The essays 1-3 must be based on the ideas and vocabulary from CAE Student’s Book and the sources given to you as links.