Gizela's memo: corrections exercise

Here are the corrections you should have found in the memo:

1. they

2. is

3. OK

4. the

5. OK

6. made

7. because

8. OK

9. them

10. it

11. who

12. OK

13. to

14. ought

15. What

16. making

17. that

And here's the sample answer again in case you didn't see it on the flip chart:

Dear Gizela,
Thanks for your memo with the attached charts amd report. I'll be happy to attend the meeting next Wednesday at 9.30 and will offer my comments and suggestions then.
Best wishes,


I look forward to receiving your meeting summaries by e-mail.

All the best,
Michelle

Academic English vocabulary unit 2

Here are the answers to the tasks in unit 2 of the academic vocabulary book.
And remember, you're supposed to attempt the exercises and then check the answers -not the other way round ;-)
Click the image to enlarge it.

Online concordancer

Remember we looked at the online concordancer as a way to increase vocabulary? We used the word 'contract'.
Here's the link so that you can try it out for yourselves.
Online concordancer

This is what you do:
click on English,
type in a word - try 'business',
choose a corpus from the drop down menu (Brown and BNC written is good)
click 'get concordance', to see the results.
You should get something like this (click on the image to increase its size)



What we're interested in, are the words that come before (and also after) 'business'. These are the ones that will help you increase your word-power and fluency.

Blend Words Text from Business Spotlight (1/2007)

Here are the words you blended on Thursday with an explanation for each.