English Academic Vocabulary

a word opposite in meaning to another

• literacy

• literature

• semantics

• antonym

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract.

• metaphor

• genre

• vowel

• intervention

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

 a category of artistic composition,

• vowel

• metaphor

• genre

• comprehension

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

What does the word disadvantage mean?

• a situation that is not favorable

• a favorable situation

• to be helpful or useful

• to situation that makes you feel confident

Tags

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

Choose the best alternative for the word devices. When I do research, my computer is a reasearch _______.

• implement

• source

• tool

• method

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

When you do research you should be careful to consult many sources to select the most _____ sources.

• important

• unimportant

• credible

• interesting

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

When you do research you need to _______ the sources carefully before writing your summary to make sure the information is credible.

• read

• scan

• analyze

• edit

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

The list of sources you mention at the end of you research task is know as the _______

• authors

• writers

• bibliography

• citations

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When you read all the articles about your research topic you need to study the details to find the _______ in each article you have read.

• conclusion sentence

• paragraphs

• title

• main idea

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.7.6

Which of the following are more academic ways of expressing 'and,...'? (Select 2 answers)

• Although

• In addition to

• Furthermore

• therefore

• whereas

Tags

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.1.6