Vocabulary for High Band Scores

B2 · Upper-intermediate54 minIELTS Test PreparationLesson 7 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: upgrade your essay vocabulary from adequate to Band 7 — precise, less common, correctly collocated.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: From adequate to Band 7

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Lexical Resource: What Examiners Want

    Read a 224-word text about Lexical Resource: What Examiners Want

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: High-Band Collocations

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Upgrade Your Vocabulary

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Precise Word Choice

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Fix the Vocabulary Errors

    Error-correction exercise, 4 items

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: build your toolkit

    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.

pose a threatyield resultsexert influencedraw a distinctionaddress concernsbridge the gap

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