Vocabulary and text types
IntroducedGrow your vocabulary
- Learn a word with its meaning, its spelling and its sound.
- Group words by topic: travel, health, school.
- A wide vocabulary helps in every paper.
Words have favourite neighbours; “do heavy rain” has walked into the wrong street.
Learn a new word with its meaning, its spelling and how it ___.
Knowing how a word sounds helps you use it.
Words that go together
- Learn collocations: make a decision, heavy rain.
- Learn phrasal verbs: give up, look after.
- Natural phrases make you sound fluent.
Knowing a word well means knowing all of this
make or do?
make = create or decide; do = work and duties — but in the end, the pairs must be memorised.
'Make a decision' is an example of a…
Words that naturally go together are collocations.
Know your text types
- Email, article, report, review, essay — each is different.
- Each has its own purpose, reader and tone.
- Match your style to the text type.
All text types use exactly the same style.
No — each text type has its own style.
Write one sentence using the phrasal verb 'look after'.
Example: 'I look after my little sister after school.'
Natural pairs in action
- Learner English: "I did a decision to make my homework in the strong rain."
- Natural pairs: make a decision, do homework, heavy rain.
- Fixed: "I made a decision to do my homework in the heavy rain."
- Collocations are learned in pairs — never one word alone.
Match each adjective to the noun it naturally pairs with.
English picks one partner per noun: heavy rain (never strong rain), strong coffee (never heavy coffee).
- Learn words with meaning, spelling and sound.
- Collocations and phrasal verbs sound natural.
- Each text type needs its own style.