Category Archives: Academic vocabulary

New education vocabulary page

Posted on 20/04/2013 by alexcase

Particularly useful for listening in academic exams like IELTS and ToEFL, and also for Part One of speaking exams like FCE and CAE – but also for anyone who might ever need to explain their past, present or future education. … Continue reading →

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Academic word list useful links

Posted on 06/05/2009 by alexcase

  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 … Continue reading →

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The “Should you be teaching EAP?” quiz

Posted on 27/06/2008 by alexcase

If the amount of new stuff I learnt from the new book “Academic Vocabulary in Use” by Michael McCarthy and Felicity O’Dell is anything to go by (a book for students from “good Intermediate level”, not for teachers!), the answer … Continue reading →

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