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Academic Word List- Giving Examples Guessing Game

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Giving examples phrases practice with AWL vocabulary for EAP classes

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Academic Word List giving examples

Giving examples phrases game

Student A

Choose one of the things below and give examples of that thing until your partner guesses exactly what you are talking about. They can only guess once per hint. Use a different phrase from the box below for each example.

Useful phrases for giving examples

A (less) well-known/ famous/ better/ different/ similar/ great/ typical example

 

An obscure example/ additional example

 

The most well-known example/ most famous example/ most obvious example

 

To give/ If I can use/ I’d like to illustrate my point with an example

 

There are many/ To give one of the many/ One of the best/ One of many examples

 

An example from my own experience/ that I read/ which I often use/ which springs to mind/ to show you what I’m talking about/ which is often used to illustrate this point/ which you might be familiar with

 

 

  1. abstract nouns
  2. aid for developing countries
  3. arguments which you are unconvinced by
  4. attributes of a good researcher
  5. bad conduct by politicians
  6. circumstances under which you would steal
  7. coincidences which you have experienced
  8. commentators
  9. commitments which you have made
  10. commodities
  11. components of things in this room
  12. concepts that you understand well
  13. consequences of individualism
  14. constraints on your freedom
  15. constructive criticism which you have experienced
  16. consumer rights
  17. contributions to your understanding by other students
  18. conventions of academic writing
  19. criteria of a good paragraph
  20. crucial issues for the Japanese government
  21. deregulation
  22. devices you have used
  23. disproportionate reactions
  24. documents
  25. domestic tasks
  26. dramatic changes in your lifetime
  27. durations
  28. erosion
  29. erroneous ideas about Japan
  30. possible evidence in support of a hypothesis
  31. evolution
  32. corporate crimes
  33. examples of diversity in Japan
  34. examples of incompatibility in couples
  35. real examples of isolationism
  36. different kinds of museum exhibits
  37. real examples of exploitation
  38. facilities in this building
  39. factors you took into account when choosing this university
  40. foreign currencies
  41. forms of discrimination
  42. formulae
  43. generations
  44. goals which are unattainable for most people
  45. good attitudes for postgraduate students
  46. good ways of bonding with your classmates
  47. government interventions in the private sector
  48. guidelines for academic writing
  49. highlights of your academic life
  50. home maintenance
  51. ideologies
  52. implications of your recent research/ research you have read recently
  53. imprecise estimates
  54. inappropriate actions for university lecturers
  55. incentives to live more healthily
  56. incoherent arguments that you have read
  57. indicators of recession
  58. infrastructure
  59. innovators
  60. institutions
  61. intrinsic properties of capitalism
  62. irrational beliefs
  63. items on your list of things to do
  64. Japanese cultural norms
  65. journals
  66. justifications for murder
  67. legislator
  68. liberalisation
  69. long procedures

Student B

Choose one of the things below and give examples of that thing until your partner guesses exactly what you are talking about. They can only guess once per hint. Use a different phrase from the box below for each example.

 

Useful phrases for giving examples

 

A (less) well-known/ famous/ better/ different/ similar/ great/ typical example

 

An obscure example/ additional example

 

The most well-known example/ most famous example/ most obvious example

 

To give/ If I can use/ I’d like to illustrate my point with an example

 

There are many/ To give one of the many/ One of the best/ One of many examples

 

An example from my own experience/ that I read/ which I often use/ which springs to mind/ to show you what I’m talking about/ which is often used to illustrate this point/ which you might be familiar with

 

 

  1. manual labour
  2. market manipulation
  3. media
  4. mediation
  5. law enforcement
  6. networks
  7. objects which are disposable
  8. objects with distinctive design
  9. occupations
  10. parts of the establishment
  11. periodicals
  12. philosophies
  13. places which are inaccessible to wheelchair users
  14. places with substantial Japanese minorities
  15. positive aspects of contemporary art
  16. possible impacts of academic research
  17. your presumptions which turned out to be wrong
  18. psychological problems
  19. publications
  20. qualitative research
  21. radicals
  22. inaccurate statements
  23. reasons for inaccuracy
  24. regions
  25. sales promotions
  26. school assignments
  27. signs of maturity
  28. signs that someone is a conformist
  29. sources of personal income
  30. sources of quotations
  31. supernatural phenomena/ entities
  32. advantages of looking for consensus
  33. consequences of choosing this university
  34. things that exceeded your expectations
  35. things which are conceivable in the next five years
  36. things which are declining
  37. things which are fluctuating
  38. things which are inevitable
  39. things which are undeniably true
  40. things which are/ might be infinite
  41. things which might induce birth
  42. things which should be prohibited
  43. things which will definitely happen in the next ten years
  44. things which you feel inhibited about
  45. things which you were unaware of five years ago
  46. things which you would put in this country’s constitution
  47. things with many layers
  48. things you are incapable of
  49. things you have been/ are/ would be excluded from
  50. things you would demonstrate against
  51. uncontroversial topics of conversation
  52. uneconomical personal habits
  53. unethical research practices
  54. unprecedented events
  55. ways in which Tokyo is inadequate
  56. ways of approximating
  57. ways of assessing language skills
  58. ways of categorising things in this room
  59. ways of emphasising
  60. ways of enhancing life in Tokyo
  61. ways of evaluating research
  62. ways of grading university students
  63. ways of implying something without saying it directly
  64. ways of showing initiative
  65. your expertise
  66. your goals
  67. your initial impressions of this area
  68. your principles
  69. your priorities

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Worksheet 2 – Phrases for giving examples presentation/ practice

Try to remember or think of at least two words or phrases for each of the gaps below.

  • A ______________________________________________________ example
  • An _____________________________________________________ example
  • The ____________________________________________________ example
  • _______________________________________________________ an example
  • _______________________________________________________ examples
  • An example ______________________________________________________

Check with the previous pages.

Test each other on the phrases above.

Take turns brainstorming as many suitable phrases as you can (including ones not above like “e.g.”)

Correct the following phrases

  • One of the best example is…
  • For example…, and so on.
  • …and etc.

 

Do these phrases have the same or different meanings? (If there are more than two, they all have the same meaning or all have different meanings.)

  • …and so forth./ …and so on./ … etcetera.
  • g./ i.e.
  • …,e.g…./ ,such as…/ …,like…
  • One of the best examples is…/ The best example is…
  • The best example is…/ The best illustration of this is…
  • An additional example is…/ Another example is…
  • An example from my own experience is…/ My favourite example of this is…
  • For example/ For instance

 

Further practice

All the phrases in the first task have words from the Academic Word List. Check any words that you don’t understand, working together to give examples each time.

Choose one category above and take turns giving different examples using different phrases until someone gives up. Try to do it without looking at the list of useful phrases.

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