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
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
