Lexical Resource Criterion

All levels50 minIELTS Test PreparationLesson 2 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: show the examiner Band 7 Lexical Resource — range, precision and collocation — anchored by a two-band contrast of the same holiday answer.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Your vocabulary under pressure

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Vocabulary That Impresses

    Read a 180-word text about Vocabulary That Impresses

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Upgrading Common Words

    6 items

  3. Reading10 min

    Reading: Hearing the criterion: the same answer at two bands

    Read a 333-word text about Hearing the criterion: the same answer at two bands

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Collocation Matching

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  5. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: range without the thesaurus

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

good → excellent, outstanding, remarkablebad → disappointing, concerning, problematicvery big → substantial, considerable, vastI think → I believe, I'm convinced, from my perspectiveimportant → crucial, essential, pivotalbecause → due to, as a result of, owing to

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