EVOLVE Educational Vocational Objective Learning of Vernacular English

Academic Words 10

Task 1
 Match the words on the left to the words on the right

1. circumstance	situation or status
2. components	example
3. considerable	significant
4. constraints	enough
5. contribution	related to business
6. core	acting together
7. corporate	a donation or gift
8.document	colonization
9. emphasis	parts of something
10. immigration	limits
11. instance	scientific or advanced
12. interaction	importance or stress
13. layers	plan
14. registered	levels
15. scheme	quantity, amount or degree
16. sufficient	a manuscript, deed or certificate
17. technical	recorded
18. volume	the central part

Task 2
Fill the gaps with one of the words from task 1

1. The ............. of the business comes from China.
2. The ............. of the victim’s death are still not known to police.
3. I have ............. with a fitness club.
4. I need something to help me study, for ............. a thesaurus.
5. I need to get a travel  ............. for entry to the U.K.
6. There is a .............difference between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens.
7. The ............. of work in this department is getting too high!
8. We must ensure that there are ............. supplies for everybody.
9. There are seven .............of skin in the human epidermis.
10. There is a large function suite in this hotel to cater for ............. events.
11. Dan always has a .............. for the future, unfortunately he never carries them out.
12. There must be more ............. between the members of this team.
13. The ............. of the Spanish class is enjoyment.
14. There are charities whose work is made possible through the ............. of money from the public.
15. My cousin is a ............. support worker in Micro Soft.
16. The .............officer glowered at me as I handed in my passport.
17. The radiator is one of the most important ............. of a car.
18. The time ............. add so much pressure in an exam.

Task 3
Choose which word in italics is correct

1. This building was built circumstance/circa 1918.
2. I don’t like instant/instance coffee.
3. We made a considerable/considered decision to cut back on staff.
4. There is not sufficient/suffice oxygen in the liquid to support life.
5. The two companies never corporate/cooperate.
6. An interaction/intersection is where two roads meet.
7. They made no contribution/contribute to the debate.
8. Immigration/Emigration from this country has always been my dream.
9. The components/opponents were bitter enemies.
10. The police removed the constructs/constraints once I was in the cell
11. My technical/technique for exams never fails.
12.  We must emphasis/emphasise the need to protect our planet.
13. I have a foolproof scheme/scum to get us out of our next lesson.
14. The senior politicians were accused of being layers/liars.
15. The volume/mass of traffic in the city centre is too high.
16. The document/documentary we saw on TV last night was fascinating.
17. I have been registration/registered as the owner of the car.
18.  Your navel is the point where your umbilical core/cord attached you to your mother.

Task 4
Write your own sentences using each of the words.

Task 4
Answers may vary