TAKE GREAT NOTES
ACADEMIC/ADVANCED VOCABULARY
ANY DIFFERENCE?
•The people wrote an essay about a new book.
•The scholars composed an essay about a recent piece of literature.
WHAT ARE COMMON BASIC WORDS TO AVOID
WHEN WRITING A UNIVERSITY-LEVEL PAPER?
Good
 Let
 Way
 Work (noun) “ The students have a lot of work”
 Need
 People
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WHAT MAKES A WORD MORE ADVANCED/
ACADEMIC?
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Prefixes and Suffixes (Parts of words)
- Inference
- Department
- Sociological
PLACES TO FIND MORE ADVANCED WORDS
Microsoft Word (Shift+F7) Different on the MAC
 www.Thesaurus.com
 www.Dictionary.com
 500 academic words that you will see in your
university studies
 http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/ac
ademic/sublist01/
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ADVANCED VOCABULARY PRACTICE:
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Find 3 more advanced words (or phrases or collocations) for:
Talk
Learn
Make
Any basic word from the worksheet
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…Then write them on the board.
Synonym Game
FINAL ACTIVITY: GO TO YOUR PARAGRAPH
AND FIND BASIC WORDS AND CHANGE
THEM TO ACADEMIC WORDS/ OR REWRITE
YOUR TOPIC SENTENCE IN ORDER TO MAKE
IT A CLEAR CONCLUDING SENTENCE