EVOLVE Educational Vocational Objective Learning of Vernacular English

Academic Words 9

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

compensation	legitimacy
consent	assignment
corresponding	procedure with skill or art
criteria	left out
demonstrate	agreement
excluded	amount
maximum	show
minorities	response
philosophy	standards
proportion	small group
reaction	development and use of machines
removed	systematic examination of basic concepts
sequence	taken away
sex	gender
task	reparation
techniques	succession
technology	matching
validity	upper limit

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

1. There is no ............. for the professor’s theory.
2. Teaching ............. are always changing in the hope of finding the perfect method.
3. If their parents ............. it is possible for people as young as 16 to marry.
4. Can you ............. how this vacuum cleaner works?
5. The  ............. for entry to the police force is not too high.
6. Can .............save the natural world?
7. My grandfather’s leg was ............. after an accident when he was only 23 years old.
8. Everybody seems to be looking for............. for the slightest accident nowadays.
9. There are two .............strings of protein in every strand of DNA.
10. Cleaning is one household ............. that we can’t avoid.
11. Their son was .............. from school for not attending ‘Games’ classes.
12. The ............. of women over 60 who smoke is higher than that of men.
13. The chairman’s  ............. was somewhat inappropriate.
14. There are charities that work with ethnic............. which help them to integrate more easily.
15. My ............. is one of complete hedonism.
16. The .............of a foetus can be gauged by ultrasound at 20 weeks.
17. The  ............. of events leading up to the murder were very odd.
18. The ............. time you should study for is six hours a day.

Task 3
Choose which word in italics is correct

1. The parking ticked was not valid/validity.
2. African elephants have large tasks/tusks.
3. His techniques/technical get fantastic results every time.
4. I am going to fit draught excluded/excluders to the doors in my house.
5. The noise outside my house is consent/constant.
6. The proportions/proponents of the president are all wrong.
7. There was a peaceful demonstrate/demonstration outside Parliament House.
8. Nuclear reactions/reactors harness massive amounts of energy.
9. The criteria/critics of the captain were punished.
10. Minorities/Minors cannot watch films that contain scenes of an adult nature.
11. While technology/techno can be useful, if it fails the problems are often greater.
12.  The ancient Greeks were great philosophies/philosophers.
13. We need that tree to be removed/moved.
14. In some cultures men are considered to be the fairer sex/socks.
15. The good weather in Mexico was compensation/companion for the low pay.
16. The sequence/consequence of his actions was that he lost his job.
17. I have been in corresponding/correspondence with the Home Office for some time.
18.  I try to keep my intake of salt to a maximum/minimum.

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

Task 4
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