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2 INTERMEDIATE / UPPER-INTERMEDIATE Photocopiable worksheets for vocabulary learning with intermediate to upper-intermediate games and exercises

VOCABULARY builder 2

VOCABULARY

Sheelagh Deller

The photocopiable worksheets:

• can be selected for topics which fit into coursework, as they are not graded for difficulty • are ideal for use with students working at different speeds or who need work on particular word sets • provide ready-made homework tasks • are motivating self-study materials for use during the holidays, when accompanied by the answers • are an invaluable support for the language teacher as they are completely self-contained and need no preparation.

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• can be used as a fun vocabulary task for the whole class at the start or finish of a lesson

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by Sheelagh Deller

VOCABULARY b u i l de r • 2 provides excellent supplementary material for the English class or for the self-study learner.

The tasks are enjoyable and entertaining, while creating genuine learning opportunities.

VOCABULARY 2

INTERMEDIATE UPPER-INTERMEDIATE

Sheelagh Deller

VOCABULARY

b u i l de r PHOTOCOPIABLE RESOURCE BOOK

2 INTERMEDIATE UPPER-INTERMEDIATE

Sheelagh Deller

Author: Sheelagh Deller Editor: Francesca Pinagli Graphic design: S. Centeleghe Illustrations: A.M. Ricci

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SUMMARY Introduction

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Contents

6 Worksheet page

Worksheet page

1 Animals • 1

8

31 Adjectives • 1

38

2 Animals • 2

9

32 Adjectives • 2

39

3 Compound nouns

10

33 Adverb/Adjective collocations

40

4 Clothes • 1

11

34 American/British English

41

5 Clothes • 2

12

35 Amounts and quantities

42

6 Books • 1

13

36 Pairs

43

7 Books • 2

14

37 Size and measurement

44

8 Parts of the body

15

38 Telephone language • 1

45

9 Health

16

39 Telephone language • 2

46

10 Verb/Noun collocations

17

40 Geography

47

11 Sports

18

41 Cinema

48

12 Homonyms • 1

19

42 Computers

49

13 Homonyms • 2

20

43 Prepositions and nouns

50

14 Transport

21

44 Eyes and ears • 1

51

15 The weather • 1

22

45 Eyes and ears • 2

52

16 The weather • 2

23

46 In and out of the town

53

17 Jobs and professions • 1

24

47 Get going!

54

18 Jobs and professions • 2

25

48 Head expressions

55

19 Word building • 1

26

49 People

56

20 Word building • 2

27

50 Law and order

57

21 Food • 1

28

51 The media

58

22 Food • 2

29

52 Noises and sounds

59

23 Colours • 1

30

53 Objects and their components

60

24 Colours • 2

31

54 Out of order

61

25 Money • 1

32

55 Gardens

62

26 Money • 2

33

56 Personal characteristics

63

27 Time expressions

34

57 Phrasal verbs

64

28 Prefixes and suffixes

35

58 The hair and face

65

29 Round the world

36

59 Banking

66

30 Quiz • 1

37

60 Quiz • 2

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Answers

68

Wordlist

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INTRODUCTION The importance of vocabulary in language teaching is now much more widely acknowledged and appreciated. It is not enough just to present new words. Students need lots of interactive activities in order to assimilate and learn the words. They certainly need to spend as much time working on vocabulary as they do on grammar.

And the advantage of focusing more on vocabulary is that students find it concrete and accessible, which helps motivation. These worksheets are designed as supplementary material for English language learners at intermediate level. They can be used to complement course materials in a number of very positive and valuable ways.

As photocopiables, of course, they have a great built-in flexibility. This is not another textbook that the students have to carry around and be reminded of before each class.

Nor are they expected to add it to the long list of books to be bought by their parents at the beginning of the school year. The photocopied pages are very convenient to handle, they can be easily distributed, done in class or taken home, then filed neatly in the student’s ring-binder.

Integrated with course work These materials are not ordered in any systematic way in terms of theme or difficulty.

They are listed according to topic so that it is easy to look in the contents list to find the sheet that you need to supplement what you are working on.

Content The worksheets cover a number of topics and themes. Some are topic based, for example sport, the weather, money, clothes, computers, geography, etc. Others are more language based, for example homonyms, phrasal verbs, word formation, prefixes and suffixes. The level is intermediate so the topics are dealt with in a more sophisticated way than they would be in an elementary book. In addition, the worksheets contain examples of common everyday English as opposed to textbookwritten English.

Approach The worksheets offer a variety of approach with some being more serious and others more fun in terms of the activities. These include word puzzles, crosswords, word snakes, matching exercises, gap-filling, sentence completion, word completion, oddone-out, categorising, labelling, word staircases and re-ordering.

Attention has been paid to the importance of collocation so that words are often presented with the words that they are most likely to occur with. This is an important philosophy of the book and follows the principles of the Lexical Approach.

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INTRODUCTION Homework Each worksheet can be treated by the teacher as a ready-made homework exercise.

They vary in length but each of them can be done within a single homework session.

They are easily marked, either as a class exercise or individually by the teacher. There are answers in the back of the book. The sheets can be corrected by the teacher, the student or other students, and then they can be set as learning homework.

Self-study If students are given the answers, the worksheets become useful materials for independent study and revision. Over a holiday period, for example, a set of ten sheets could be issued with the answers on a separate sheet so that students have something motivating and rewarding to work on without the immediate feedback of lessons.

Classwork The worksheets are equally usable as class teaching materials. They can be worked on individually, in pairs, in small groups or as a class. They can also be given out to early finishers – particularly the more fun sheets so students don’t feel they are being punished for finishing early!

Exploitation The obvious way to use the worksheets is simply to follow the rubric and fill in the answers. It is a good idea to encourage students to use bi-lingual and mono-lingual dictionaries to check out their answers.

Groups of students can use the same activities to write worksheets on another topic.

When these have been checked, they can exchange their sheets with another group and work on each other’s.

Alternatively, students can write an extra activity to practise the words on the worksheet and then exchange their activity with another group.

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CONTENTS Worksheet

Themes and Sample vocabulary items

1 Animals • 1

plurals, their young, homes, characteristics

2 Animals • 2

movements, noises

3 Compound nouns

common collocations

4 Clothes • 1

nouns and verbs

5 Clothes • 2

accessories, details

6 Books • 1

reference, non-fiction, fiction

7 Books • 2

nouns, reading verbs, adjectives

8 Parts of the body

matching, body actions

9 Health

problems, people

10 Verb/Noun collocations

take, opposites

11 Sports

plans, equipment

12 Homonyms • 1

same word, same sound, two meanings

13 Homonyms • 2

same word, same sound, two meanings

14 Transport

plane, bicycle, car

15 The weather • 1

wind and rain

16 The weather • 2

temperature, natural disasters

17 Jobs and professions • 1

areas of work

18 Jobs and professions • 2

areas of work

19 Word building • 1

Parts of speed

20 Word building • 2

-ion, -y, -ic

21 Food • 1

pairs, quantities

22 Food • 2

adjectives, verbs, kitchen equipment

23 Colours • 1

less common colours

24 Colours • 2

shades of colour, colour expressions

25 Money • 1

English money

26 Money • 2

rich/poor, money verbs

27 Time expressions

past and present

28 Prefixes and suffixes

-able, un-, -proof

29 Round the world

countries, nationalities, currencies

30 Quiz • 1

review of previous worksheets

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CONTENTS Worksheet

Themes and Sample vocabulary items

31 Adjectives • 1

synonyms, opposites, absolutely words

32 Adjectives • 2

absolutely words

33 Adverb/Adjective collocations

words that mean very, completely

34 American/British English

different spellings, words, landmarks

35 Amounts and quantities

too/enough, expressions

36 Pairs

pairs joined by and

37 Size and measurement

describing size and dimensions

38 Telephone language • 1

telephone vocabulary

39 Telephone language • 2

formal and informal telephone language

40 Geography

the landscape, the natural world

41 Cinema

jobs, kinds of film

42 Computers

verb and noun pairs, double meanings

43 Prepositions and nouns

similar meaning, same preposition

44 Eyes and ears • 1

verbs

45 Eyes and ears • 2

expressions

46 In and out of the town

roads, commerce

47 Get going!

phrasal verbs and expressions

48 Head expressions

common expressions

49 People

people in charge, groups of people

50 Law and order

people, verbs

51 The media

newspapers, television

52 Noises and sounds

people and objects

53 Objects and their components

matching objects and their parts

54 Out of order

verbs and adjectives

55 Gardens

trees, flowers, garden equipment

56 Personal characteristics

opposites, word families

57 Phrasal verbs

look, get

58 The hair and face

adjectives and nouns

59 Banking

nouns and verbs

60 Quiz • 2

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2.

ANIMALS • 1 Write the plurals of these animals.

2 3 4 5 6 7 8

2 3

ox

2

sheep

6

goose

3

deer

7

fish

4

butterfly

8

wolf

cow sheep pig horse dog cat

A

hen lion

G

B C D E F

H

chick foal cub calf lamb piglet puppy kitten

a burrow a kennel a stable

B R I T A B

rabbit

4

G O D

5

S H R E O

6

a cage a sty a shed

R D B I G P I W O C

Find the animal in the box that matches the description.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

8

5

mice

Unjumble the letters to find the animals that live in these places.

1

4.

mouse

Match the animals with their young. Use a dictionary to help you.

1

3.

1

It has a hump.

It has stripes.

It has spots.

It has antlers.

It has horns.

It has a trunk.

It has a mane.

It has hooves.

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zebra leopard deer bull lion camel elephant horse

ANIMALS • 2 1.

The words in the box all describe movements that different animals make. Read the clues and then fill in the crossword with the correct word from the box.

Clues across 4 Fish and frogs can do this.

5 A lion does this when it sees an animal 4 that it wants to eat.

6 A mosquito does this.

8 Some birds and insects can do this in the air.

9 You need wings to do this.

10 A rabbit does this.

1 3

5

8 9

10

Write the noise under the picture of the animal that makes it.

A

hover fly hop gallop swim jump race flutter pounce sting

7

6

Clues down 1 Lots of animals can do this – and so can people.

2 Some horses do this and people bet money on it.

3 A butterfly does this.

7 A horse does this when it’s moving fast.

2.

2

2

B C

moo grunt neigh bark quack roar miaow bleat

E G

D

F

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COMPOUND NOUNS Double words. Combine the words in the two columns to make compound nouns. Then write them under the correct picture.

A

B

E

G

2.

10

C

D

football pitch

1

football

agent

2

traffic

clip

3

bicycle

racquet

4

car

shop

5

computer

pitch

6

book

game

7

travel

knife

8

paper

park

9

kitchen

bell

10

tennis

jam

F

I

H

J

Odd-one-out. Cross out the word in each line that does not go with the word in italics to make a compound noun.

1

mechanic park manufacturer person horn

car

2

club

life

night

3

table

knife

4

pot

5

table path furniture road wall

6

mark

7

program game network

8

clip hanky round pen knife weight work shop

shift school

bed

basin vase

shop

case

bed

sink

floor

arrangement page

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mare

chair

garden

plant party

kitchen flower garden

shelf club

book

software

computer

television

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CLOTHES • 1 1.

2.

4

Noun, verb, or both? Tick the correct boxes.

1

dress

2

shoe

3

boot

4

shirt

5

coat

6

jacket

7

tie

8

cap

9

tights

10

belt

11

sweater

12

skirt

Noun

Verb

✔

✔

Complete the sentences with some of the verbs from Exercise 1.

1

She always

2

She

3

very fashionably. the nuts with chocolate. up your shoelaces before you trip over.

4

A hundred years ago, teachers used to their pupils when they were naughty, or if they made a mistake.

5

I had to round the question when the teacher asked me why I was late.

6

He turned up late, and then, to it all, he left early.

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CLOTHES • 2 Accessories are articles that we wear or carry that are not part of our main clothing. Write the name of the accessory from the snake. Then cross out the definition that is false.

1

scarf A

5

something you wear round your neck

A

something you only wear at a wedding

2

LL

B

something you wear round your waist

V

4

2.

WE

always made of leather

YGLO

A

ESTI

A

something to carry things in

B

always worn over the shoulder

B

only worn by women

A

worn on the feet

B

often used to keep you warm

A

always patterned

B

worn round the neck

A

usually worn on the wrist

B

just for decoration

6

7

ER

3

AGJE

worn by men and women

B

B

AT B ELT

always made of wool

can be very valuable

CARF

H

B

S

A

EW

A

TC

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The words in the box are all used to describe clothes.

Write them under the appropriate pictures.

long V-necked mini flared high-heeled flat short-sleeved roll-necked

B A

C

D

F G E

12

H

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BOOKS •1 1.

Match the books with their definitions.

1 2 3

2.

a reference book non-fiction fiction

A B C

based on fact and truth an imaginary story invented by the author for looking up information

What kind of book?

Put the following books under the correct heading.

FICTION

ENCE REFER NON-F ICTION

3.

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encyclopedia science fiction atlas travel guide thriller biography cookery book dictionary detective story manual gardening book autobiography romance phrase book novel

Which of the books in Exercise 2 are these?

1 2 3 4 5 6

An account of someone’s life written by someone else.

An account of your own life written by yourself.

Instructions how to use and maintain something, for example, a car.

A book that contains words and their meanings.

A book that contains information about many different subjects.

A useful book to take abroad that gives you useful expressions in the foreign language.

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BOOKS • 2 What are these? Re-order the jumbled letters to find the words.

1

2

3

L T I T E

T H R U A O

H P O S O O K B

5

C K A B A P R E P

6 4

2.

2 3

4 5 6

3.

I always get embarrassed if I’m asked to in front of the whole class.

I like to through the books in a library.

If you don’t know a word, you should it in a dictionary.

The editor has to the book.

It’s hard to persuade a publisher to a book.

He never reads a book properly – he just likes to

publish proofread look up read aloud browse leaf through

them.

What’s it like? Tick (✔) the three adjectives that you would particularly use to describe a book.

1 2

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C K A B R H A D

Complete the sentences with the correct reading verbs in the box.

1

B R L I Y R A

absorbing dull

3 4

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gripping smooth