Vocabulary

1. Listening for Vocabulary

Musicians

• An Interview with Beyonce
• An Interview with Alicia Keys
• An Interview with Bon Jovi
• An Interview with John Mayer
• An Interview with Lady Gaga
• An Interview with Rihanna
• An Interview with Taylor Swift

Authors

• An Interview with Cassandra Clare

TED Talks

• Bono TED Talk: The Good News on Poverty
• Frank Warren TED Talk
• Cameron Russell TED Talk
• Modern Day Slavery TED Talk

Movies

• Notting Hill
• JUNO
• Movie Excerpt – Thank you for smoking
• Bend It Like Beckham
• Toy Story 3 Film Trailer
• Making of The Pirates of Carribean

Documentaries, News Stories and Lectures

• The Reality of Reality TV
• Journalism and Media
• Arts and Entertainment
• Scientific Report: The Mystery of Happiness
• National Geographic – Transgender Marriage
• National Geographic- Making an Artificial Eye
• The Bermuda Triangle
• BBC Series: Secrets of the Sexes
• BBC Earth Unplugged: Zoo La La- Why are eggs shaped like eggs?
• BBC Horizon: The Truth About Exercise – HIT
• BBC Two: Top Gear – India Special
• BBC Sketch Comedy: My Blackberry is not working
• BBC Careers Martin Cornwell
• The 11th Hour
• Taxi to The Dark Side
• The Brain in love: A Lecture by Helen Fisher

2. Quick Reviews and Mini Lessons

• Understanding Adjectives
• Testing your understanding of Adjectives
• Understanding and Remembering Metaphors
• Strategies for Softening Criticism
• How to Follow an Argument
• Using Learner Strategies to Build Vocabulary

3. Academic Vocabulary Practice

• Academic Vocabulary List
• Academic Word List – sublist 1
• Academic Word List – sublist 2
• Academic Word List – sublist 3
• Academic Word List – sublist 4
• Academic Word List – sublist 5
• Academic Word List – sublist 6
• Academic Word List – sublist 7
• Academic Word List – sublist 8
• Academic Word List – sublist 9
• Academic Word List – sublist 10
• People and Idea

4. Business Vocabulary

• Vocabulary for Proposals
• Vocabulary for Meetings
• Vocabulary and listening – Business and Economics
• Accounting and finance discipline vocabulary
• Management discipline vocabulary
• Marketing discipline vocabulary
• Hotel Management discipline vocabulary
• Vocabulary for describing graphs
• Vocabulary for Writing Reports

5. Vocabulary for Specific Purposes

• Vocabulary – Word Search – clothes
• Vocabulary – Crossword – Personality
• Crossword – Halloween
• TED talk by Stacey Kramer
• Discovery Networks – Avatar Science behind Pandora
• Dove US – Real beauty sketch
• Health Decoder – Do you really need eight hours of sleep
• Kevin (the bird) from Pixars Up
• Ted- Amy Cuddy
• Planet Earth Live – Magic meerkat moments
• NASA- Earth at night
• National Geographic- Jason Silva on Focus
• National Geographic- Slang Hunters- It’s Awesome
• NBC Dateline-Lying
• Vocabulary—National Geographic—Close Encounters of the Giant Kind
• Journalism & Media Vocabulary
• Health and Care Vocabulary
• Ted— Animee Mullins
• Second Rate Citizen
• The Making of Money
• The Genius Sperm Bank
• Stand-up Comedy
• Applied social sciences discipline vocabulary
• Logistics and maritime studies discipline vocabulary
• Nursing discipline vocabulary
• Optometry discipline vocabulary
• Rehabilitation science discipline vocabulary
• Radiography discipline vocabulary
• Scientific communication discipline vocabulary
• Textiles and clothing discipline vocabulary
• Health technology discipline vocabulary
• Technical Writing discipline vocabulary
• Medical Laboratory Science discipline vocabulary

6. Vocabulary for Academic Purposes

• Paragraph Writing – sequencing ideas
• Using Academic Verbs
• Grammar-Adjectives, Nouns and Verbs Conversion
• Keyword search
• Curriculum Vitae Vocabulary

7. University Vocabulary Mini-Course

• LEVEL 1 – Package 1 – Introduction and Pre-course test
• LEVEL 1 – Package 2 – Word Building & Recording Strategies
• LEVEL 1 – Package 3 – Dictionary Skills
• LEVEL 1 – Package 4 – Roots and Affixes
• LEVEL 1 – Package 5 – Synonyms
• LEVEL 1 – Package 6 – Antonyms
• LEVEL 1 – Package 7 – Mid-course Test
• LEVEL 1 – Package 8 – Causes and Effects
• LEVEL 1 – Package 9 – Similarities and Differences
• LEVEL 1 – Package 10 – Post-course Test
• LEVEL 2 – Package 1 – Introduction and Pre-course test
• LEVEL 2 – Package 2 – Using a concordance
• LEVEL 2 – Package 3 – Prefixes and Affixes
• LEVEL 2 – Package 4 – Word roots
• LEVEL 2 – Package 5 – Collocations
• LEVEL 2 – Package 6 – Mid-course test
• LEVEL 2 – Package 7 – Formality and connotation
• LEVEL 2 – Package 8 – Idioms and Proverbs
• LEVEL 2 – Package 9 – Post-course test
• LEVEL 3 – Package 1 – Introduction and what is vocabulary
• LEVEL 3 – Package 2 – Grouping strategies 1 – Identifying and selecting vocabulary groups
• LEVEL 3 – Package 3 – Grouping strategies 2 – Grouping new and useful known vocabulary
• LEVEL 3 – Package 4 – Grouping strategies 3 – Recording new and useful known vocabulary using a variety of recording strategies
• LEVEL 3 – Package 5 – Linking and extending recorded academic vocabulary