Academic word list useful links
I’ll be using these in an IELTS lesson and thought they might be useful for others. These are given in approximate order of how useful they are likely to be for learners:
Here are my attempts (now mainly tried out in class)
Academic English Games and Worksheets
And here are ones from elsewhere:
Academic vocabulary word building: http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram.htm, then click on “Exercises” (yellow button at the top of the left hand column), then “Building” (second word under “Vocabulary in EAP: Exercises” at the top)
Academic word list with links to definitions and other parts of speech: http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram.htm, then “Selection” (orange button at the top of the left column), then “AWL” at the top
Academic word list exercises based on texts on various subjects: http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram.htm (click on “Exercises”, then “Selection” button at the top, and then “Academic Word List”)
Vocabulary exercises for the Academic Word List: http://www.academicvocabularyexercises.com/
Academic Word Lists and exercises: http://www.mrcoward.com/slcusd/academicwords.html
5 pages of exercises on the same subject:
http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/vocabulary/awlmc1.html
http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/vocabulary/awlmc2.html
http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/vocabulary/awlmc3.html
http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/vocabulary/awlmc4.html
http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/vocabulary/awlmc5.html
Corpus to check which words usually go together: http://corp.hum.sdu.dk/cqp.en.html
University word list: http://jbauman.com/UWL.html
Academic Word List on the web (list of links, most of them already given here): http://www.fi.muni.cz/~thomas/EAP/awl_on_the_web.htm
May 7th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Hadn’t realised that the top three links all went to the same address. Now given instructions on how to get to the most useful pages next to each link.
May 7th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Check out Martin McMorrow’s academic English generatsor:
http://www.academicenglishgenerator.com
May 9th, 2009 at 2:06 am
You have to pay for it and it would rely on you finding enough suitable reading texts online, but this looks useful for IELTS and English for Academic Purposes students too:
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber/
Thanks to the publishers for the PR release on this. Will hopefully be able to give more info on it soon, such as whether it is worth the money or not, if they agree to send out a review copy
May 11th, 2009 at 1:35 am
Ben Zimmer here, executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus. Just to clarify, VocabGrabber is being offered as a free resource from the Visual Thesaurus. Many additional benefits come with a subscription to the Visual Thesaurus, but VocabGrabber can be used without a subscription. Let us know what you think!
May 12th, 2009 at 10:20 am
I think you have a great name.
Do you mean what we think of the website?
May 16th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Also for IELTS, apparently you can take a free practice test here:
http://www.oxfordenglishtesting.com/buy_tests.aspx?menuId=2
Four pounds doesn’t seem too bad for more tests either, depending on how much feedback you get on why an answer is wrong.
October 24th, 2009 at 9:49 am
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