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Follow-up vocabulary tasks
Quizizz
Try the Socrative quiz here:
To get to know words better it’s helpful to find out more about how they are used.
Choose 2 words from the text that you’d like to know more about (e.g. soar, strike, coincide, comparable)
You will carry out some research on these to find out more about them.
Go to this page. You’ll need to register to use the site if you haven’t used it before but it is free and it is also a very useful resource. Then click on Browse. Enter the word, press ‘enter’ and then click on the word.
Note the following information:
- Which register is it most frequently used in?
- What are it’s commonest noun/verb/adjective collocates?
- What synonyms are there? Do you know these words?
- What grammatical words (e.g. prepositions) commonly follow/precede this word?
Share your findings in the Comments below.
These instructions can be downloaded as a Word document by clicking here.
