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Academic English- Longer Phrases

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Longer academic phrases

Teacher’s instructions

Photocopy (maybe A3 size) and cut up one pack per group of 2-4 students, separating the middle column. Also photocopy one un-cut-up copy per student for them to check their answers with and keep.

Give out the first and last column cards and get students to match them to make the basic phrases. When they are (nearly) done, give them the middle column cards to add to make longer phrases with – this will also help them check their answers from the last stage.

Give out the un-cut-up copies for them to check their answers with, then ask them to test each other in pairs, for example:

  • Giving the longer version and asking their partner to come up with the shorter version
  • Giving the shorter version and asking their partner to come up with a longer version
  • Giving the left-hand and middle columns and asking their partner for the last column
  • Giving the left-hand column and asking their partner for the middle and right-hand ones
  • Giving the end of the phrases and asking their partner to remember the beginning

 

Cards to photocopy and cut up

… is

 

usually

defined as…

… could

 

potentially

cause…

The term… is used

 

in this paper

to mean…

… will

almost

 

certainly…

A

great/ substantial/ slight

 

difference between…

A

 

(very) small/ tiny/ significant

minority of…

A

 

very

large number of…

A simpler

 

if less precise

definition is…

An

 

additional

example of this is…

An example

 

which

I often use is…

An example from my

 

own

experience is…

As a

 

direct

result of…

 

 

As a

 

general

rule,…

As is

 

clearly

shown above…

Because of

 

all

the reasons above…

Despite

 

all of

this,…

Even though

 

all

that is true,…

I can illustrate this

 

point

with an analogy,…

In

complete

 

contrast,…

It has remained

more or less/ approximately

 

stable at…

It is thought

by many

 

that…

It rose by

just under/ more or less

 

a third to…

One of the

best

 

examples is…

Positive

 

and negative

aspects of this include…

Some

of the

 

advantages are…

The advantages

easily

 

outweigh the disadvantages.

The meaning is

somewhat

 

ambiguous but…

The term is used here in its

usual

 

sense of…

There are

far

 

more pros than cons to…

There are two

related

 

meanings to…

There is a

 

very

high probability of…

This will reach a

new

 

peak of…

To be

more

 

precise,…

You could

also

 

take this to mean…

 

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