EVOLVE Educational Vocational Objective Learning of Vernacular English

Academic Words 6

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

1. affect	a section of a story
2. appropriate	a mathematical or logical statement
3. categories	fitting
4. chapter	materials
5. credit	involvement
6. cultural	a questionnaire or investigation
7. equation	possible or possibility
8. focus	related to culture
9. injury	exchange or move
10. participation	choose
11. perceived	acknowledgement
12. potential	influence
13. purchase	classes, groups
14. resources	seen to be something
15. select	looked for
16. sought	centre
17. survey	buy
18. transfer	damage

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

1. There is a ............. centre in the city where you can learn about the traditions of other countries.
2. Can you ............. my call to the help desk.
3. She has a lot of ............. to be a great tennis player.
4. Please ............. on of the following options.
5. We need to  ............. the house before we buy it.
6. I never receive any ............. for the hard work that I do.
7. ............. in the class is important for every student.
8. His job can ............. his mood so much, I think he needs to look for another one.
9. We are running out of natural ..............
10. Most students fall into one or two of the four ............. of learning styles.
11. You must be sure that the way that you dress is ............. to your job.
12. Although he is ............. as a hero, Einstien had an unheroic private life.
13. ‘Family, food, friends and freedom’ is my ............. for happiness.
14. You should  ............. on learning verbs first.
15. We are moving on to a new  ............. in our lives.
16. Have you .............legal advice about this problem?
17. I want to ............. a new car but I don’t know if I can afford it.
18. He came home from the match with a bad ............. so we took him to hospital.

Task 3
Choose which word in italics is correct

1. The injured/injury dog looking unwell so we took him to a vet.
2. I’ve just finished another captor/chapter of the book I’m writing.
3. That thief was going to purloin/purchase my laptop computer.
4. The equation/equator is an imaginary line around the earth.
5. You should focus/examine on your pronunciation.
6. I don’t think that what you said was appropriated/appropriate.
7. They will sought/sort out the letters at the Post Office.
8. If you need materials, just look inour resource/resource cupboard.
9. Try to give one hundred perceived/percent of your attention during this session.
10. It’s important that everyone gets a chance to participation/participate today.
11. He categorically/category denied the accusations.
12.  Can I carry out a surveillance/survey on you?
13. Elect/Select one of the following options…
14. Smoking can seriously affect/effect your health.
15. Potential/Potentially is our greatest resource.
16. I must credit/debit my team of researchers, who have helped me from the beginning.
17. Have you ever suffered from cultural/culture shock?
18.  The prisoners were transferred/transfer to another detention centre.

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

Answers

Task 1

Task 4
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