Word Form Exercise- Advanced Vocabulary Chapter 3 and 4

A. Word Form (Error Correction)

Instructions: Correct the underlined word form mistakes in the following sentences.

1. John had a previously sports injury.
2. The legislate are meeting to review the camera traffic light laws.
3. In the regional between both countries many refugees have set up camp.
4. We need to final our plans before Monday.
5. That is an administer problem; teachers can't really do anything about that.


B. Word Form (Sentence Construction)

Instructions: Create your own sentences using the underlined words in Exercise A.

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Advanced Academic Vocabulary Chapters 1 and 2 Word Forms

A. Word Form Change

Instructions: Change the word forms of the underlined words in the following sentences so as to make each sentence grammatical.

1. It will take some time to analysis the problem.

2. Before the article can be published, many edit changes will have to be made.

3. Please check the system periodic to see if there are any glitches.

4. We will need to see some form of identify before you can withdraw money from the bank.

5. The first occur of the scientific anomaly took place in July.

6. The alien create attacked the scientists and ate them alive.

7. That is not my area of expertise; you will have to hire a consult for this project.

8. I emailed our boss, but I did not get a respond.

9. Please item the deductions on the form.

10. That university has so many require; I am going to apply to another university.


B. Sentence Structure Change

Instructions: Change the sentences in Exercise A so that the underlined words do not have to be changed. Write the corrected sentences below.

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Listening Comprehension: My Escape From North Korea

Instructions: Listen to the TED talk and answer the questions that follow.

Link: https://www.ted.com/talks/hyeonseo_lee_my_escape_from_north_korea?language=en#t-31973

Questions

1. What did the speaker learn in school in North Korea?
2. What did the speaker see when she was seven years old?
3. What did the speaker find shocking in the letter that her mother brought home?
4. What terrible experience can the speaker not erase from memory?
5. What was the impact of the famine in North Korea in the mid- 1990s?
6. How did many North Koreans cross into China?
7. What happened to many of these Koreans as they crossed?
8. After the speaker escaped to China, how long did it take her to see her family again?
9. How did the speaker manage to satisfy her Chinese interrogators?
10. What is life like for illegal North Korean immigrants in China?

Listening Comprehension Advanced: How Schools Kill Creativity

Instructions: Listen to the TED talk and answer the questions that follow.

Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity?language=en

Questions

1. When will children starting school “this year” be retiring?
2. According to the speaker, what is unpredictable?
3. The speaker mentions a child named Serena. How does she relate to the topic of his talk?
4. According to the speaker, how should we treat creativity?
5. What advantage is there of not being frightened of being wrong?
6. What did Picasso say about children?
7. According to the speaker, how do we lose our creativity?
8. What, according to the speaker, is common to all education systems on Earth?
9. What does it mean to “educate children from the waist up”?
10. According to the speaker, what is the purpose of university education?

Listening Comprehension Advanced: One More Reason To Get A Good Night's Sleep

Instructions: Listen to the talk about sleep and answer the following questions.

Video link: http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_iliff_one_more_reason_to_get_a_good_night_s_sleep/citations#t-656964

1. How much of our life is spent sleeping?


2. Who was Galen and what did he propose?


3. What happens to the mind if we don’t sleep?


4. According to the speaker, the brain is “an elegant design solution to” what?


5. What is “especially critical” in the brain?


6. What solves the nutrient delivery problem?


7. Which solution is unique to the brain?


8. What surprising difference is there between the awake brain and the sleeping brain?


9. What is the connection between sleep and Alzheimer’s Disease?


10. What analogy does the speaker make between our houses and our brains?

Listening Comprehension Advanced: The Dark Side of Happiness

Instructions: Listen to the talk on the dark side of happiness and answer the following questions.

Video Link: http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxCambridge-June-Gruber-on-th

1. According to the speaker, what is going on in the pop culture media?


2. Why does the writer mention the pharmaceutical industry? How does this relate to the topic of her talk?


3. According to psychologists, why might positive emotions and happiness be good for us?


4. What three themes does the speaker focus on in discussing the dark side of happiness?
 
5. What are some negative consequences of extreme degrees of happiness?


6. What two examples does the speaker give to support the idea that there may be a wrong time for happiness?

7. According to the speaker, what is ingrained in Americans?


8. According to the speaker, should we always be pursuing happiness? Why or Why not?


9. What did John Stuart Mill say about happiness?

10. In accordance with many Buddhist traditions, what does the speaker advise us to accept?

Transition Devices- Intermediate

Instructions: Use the following transition devices to connect the pairs of sentences below. Remember to add commas where necessary.

For example                                               In other words
After that/Then                                           In fact
Therefore                                                   In addition
However                                                    Otherwise
On the other hand                                      Consequently

1. The students took the final exam. _______________ they went to the movies.
2. Your GPA is lower than 1.0. _______________ you will have to repeat the level next session.
3. My mother does not like fish. ___________ she does not like any kind of fish.
4. Study hard. ______________ you will fail.
5. When you cook chicken, you can use different types of seasoning. _____________ you can use salt and pepper.
6. John likes broccoli. _______________ his sister does not.
7. Teacher, I can't do my homework. I don't have a textbook. ______________ I don't have a pen. :(
8. I don't have enough money for a vacation. ______________ I can't take a vacation this year.
9. We have no money in our bank account. _______________ we are broke.
10. It is going to rain this weekend, so we won't be able to do anything outside. We could go to the movies.
__________________ we could just stay home and watch TV.