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Improving your academic vocabulary

Isn’t the Olympics just great? I have nearly been late for class because I’ve been enjoying Olympic breakfasts and can’t drag myself away to drive to work. However, when I get to class I am helping students to improve their academic vocabulary, and one way you can do that is by doing some exercises on … Read more

Categories Academic vocabulary Tags Academic vocabulary, Academic Word List, AWL

Improving your academic vocabulary

Today I am going to show you a link to an impressive site created by Sandra Haywood at the University of Nottingham where you can really improve your understanding and use of academic vocabulary. The exciting thing about this site is that you make the exercises, using your texts. The problem with many exercises you … Read more

Categories Academic vocabulary Tags Academic vocabulary, Academic Word List, AWL, English academic vocabulary

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