EVOLVE Educational Vocational Objective Learning of Vernacular English

Academic Words 11

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

1. despite	taken as a whole
2. emerged	came out of water or darkness
3. goals	organisation
4. hence	operation
5. implementation	assignment
6. imposed	therefore
7. integration	related to work
8. internal	inside
9. job	objectives
10. mechanism	kept
11. occupational	amount
12. overall	incorporation
13. parallel	device
14. parameters	similar or corresponding
15. project	forced
16. regime	in spite of
17. retained	occupation
18. sum	limits or confines

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

1. Apart from a few complaints, the ............. feeling of the students was of satisfaction.
2. The basic ............. of our immigration policy need to be changed.
3. The crocodile ............. from the water.
4. I need a new ..............
5. Joseph Stalin’s ............. was a difficult period in Soviet Russia.
6. ............. my advice, Abdullah decided to study at home.
7. The ............. of our plan is at hand!
8. The sheriff  ............. a rule of martial law.
9. I was given a grade of C+ for my ..............
10. There is a ............. between the IELTS test and the TOEFL exam.
11. I am tired, .............. I’m going home.
12. There is a release ............. on the top of the fire extinguisher.
13. Burns are an ............. hazard of being a fire fighter.
14. Jin found ............. into European culture quite easy.
15. A bruise is a sign of ............. bleeding.
16. The ............. total of football fans who came to watch the match was 1,500.
17. It is advisable to set your ............. as early in your life as possible.
18. The course has successfully ............. all of the students.

Task 3

Choose which word in italics is correct

1. Mechanics usually wear overall/overalls.
2. Some information has emerged/emergence from our meeting.
3. The Welsh regime/regiment fought in Africa many years ago.
4. A fork is an eating implementation/implement.
5. That overhead project/projector is not working properly.
6. From hence/henceforth I will be called the Scarlet Pimpernel.
7. Andrew is working on an occupational/occupation therapy course.
8. Internal/External motivation refers to self-motivation.
9. The goals/hoops we set our employees are high.
10. In American English an orthodontic brace is caller a retained/retainer.
11. The sum/some of my work is kept in the archive.
12.  The course integration/integrates the four skills of linguistics.
13. The mechanism/mechanised army is becoming more of a reality each year.
14. Spanish and English have many parallel/paralysed constructions.
15. The imposed/impostor finally revealed that he was a spy.
16. Despite/Discount the new rules, Dan left work an hour early.
17. I have to go to job/work.
18.  We try to work within the parameters/peripheral of trading standards.

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

Task 4
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