Check Your Vocabulary for Academic English.pdf

CHECK YOUR VOCABULARY FOR

ACADEMIC

ENGLISH

THIRD EDITION

David Porter

A & C Black

London

www.acblack.com

For Ana Rita

First edition published 2001

Second edition published 2003

This third edition published 2007

by A & C Black Publishers Ltd

38 Soho Square, London W1D 3HB

No part of this publication may be reproduced in

any form without the permission of the publishers.

A CIP entry for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN-10: 0 7136 8285 X

ISBN-13: 978 0 7136 8285 4

eISBN-13: 978-1-4081-0232-9

Text typeset by A & C Black

Printed in Great Britain at Caligraving Ltd, Thetford, Norfolk

This book is produced using paper that is made from wood grown in managed, sustainable forests. It is natural, renewable and

recyclable. The logging and manufacturing processes conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.

Contents

Page Title

Unit One

Unit Seven

1a – Fill in the gaps

7a – Fill in the gaps

1b – Choose the right word

7b – Choose the right word

1c – Finish the sentence

7c – Finish the sentence

1d – Word substitution

7d – Word substitution

1e – Choose the best word

7e – Choose the best word

1f – Make a collocation

7f – Make a collocation

Vocabulary sheet

Unit Two

Unit Eight

2a – Fill in the gaps

8a – Fill in the gaps

2b – Choose the right word

8b – Choose the right word

2c – Finish the sentence

8c – Finish the sentence

2d – Word substitution

8d – Word substitution

2e – Choose the best word

8e – Choose the best word

2f – Make a collocation

8f – Make a collocation

Vocabulary sheet

Unit Three

Unit Nine

3a – Fill in the gaps

3b – Choose the right word

9a – Fill in the gaps

3c – Finish the sentence

9b – Choose the right word

3d – Word substitution

9c – Finish the sentence

3e – Choose the best word

9d – Word substitution

3f – Make a collocation

9e – Choose the best word

Vocabulary sheet

9f – Make a collocation

Vocabulary sheet

Unit Four

Unit Ten

4a – Fill in the gaps

4b – Choose the right word

10a – Fill in the gaps

4c – Finish the sentence

10b – Choose the right word

4d – Word substitution

10c – Finish the sentence

4e – Choose the best word

10d – Word substitution

4f – Make a collocation

10e – Choose the best word

Vocabulary sheet

10f – Make a collocation

Vocabulary sheet

Unit Five

5a – Fill in the gaps

Unit Eleven

5b – Choose the right word

11a – Fill in the gaps

5c – Finish the sentence

11b – Choose the right word

5d – Word substitution

11c – Finish the sentence

5e – Choose the best word

11d – Word substitution

5f – Make a collocation

11e – Choose the best word

Vocabulary sheet

11f – Make a collocation

Unit Six

Vocabulary sheet

6a – Fill in the gaps

Answer key

6b – Choose the right word

6c – Finish the sentence

Units One to Four

6d – Word substitution

Units Four to Eight

6e – Choose the best word

Units Eight to Eleven

6f – Make a collocation

Vocabulary sheet

Index

Introduction

The purpose of this book is to help students learn a common core of vocabulary which will be useful for almost

any subject studied at college or university.

Advice to the Student

Obtain a Dictionary

Before attempting to use this book, you will need to obtain a good English-English dictionary, such as the

Easier English Dictionary for Students (ISBN: 978 07475 6624 3) published by A&C Black Publishers Ltd, which

this workbook has been based on.

Using your Dictionary

A dictionary is really a long list of individual words, but in normal situations, words are very rarely used on their

own, appearing instead together with other words. For this reason, the vocabulary you will learn in this book

is presented in example sentences which will help you to understand the words, to remember them more

easily, and to use them correctly.

Doing the Exercises

There are different types of exercise in this book, but one small example will be enough to show you how to

use the book. In these two sentences from Unit One, notice first of all that the other words in these sentences

show you the grammar of these words – here an adjective and then a verb.

1. Although not exactly identical, the two books are so __________ to each other

that one writer must have copied much of his book from the other.

2. The Prime Minister set up a committee of financial experts to help him discuss

and __________ new policies.

Working Out the Word or Meaning

Also, notice that the other words in the sentences can help you to guess the meaning of the missing words.

In the examples above, we can see from the phrases not exactly identical and copied much of his book that the

adjective in the first example must mean something like almost the same . In the same way, because the

policies mentioned in the second example are described as new, the verb in the second example seems to

mean plan or prepare :

1. Although not exactly identical , the two books are so ___?adj?___ to each other

that one writer must have copied much of his book from the other.

2. The Prime Minister set up a committee of financial experts to help him discuss

and ___?v?___ new policies.

Sample Answers

With the exercise from which these sentences were taken, the words similar ( adj) and formulate ( v ), were

included in the list of answers. Because of the grammar of these words and their meanings – which we can

check in the dictionary if necessary – the completed sentences will look like this:

1. Although not exactly identical, the two books are so similar to each other

that one writer must have copied much of his book from the other.

2. The Prime Minister set up a committee of financial experts to help him discuss

and formulate new policies.

Keep Your Own Notes

Next, whenever you find out what a new word means, write it into your vocabulary notebook, which you can

organise in alphabetical order like a dictionary. With any new word, you should copy either the sentence from

this book or the example from the dictionary. This will help you to learn the word.

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