BILKENT UNIVERSITY

ENGLISH LANGUAGE PREPARATORY PROGRAM

PERIOD 1 & 3

PRE-INTERMEDIATE LEVEL WORDLIST FOR PRE-INTERMEDIATE CLASSES

PRISM 1 Listening & Speaking WORD LIST

UNIT 1- PLACES

PRISM 1 Listening and Speaking Wordlist- (June 2022)

 NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB OTHERS

agreement agree beautiful certainly driver's license

area begin certain firstly
beauty circle childish quietly
beginning cross childlike strangely
body describe crowded
century discuss first
childhood drive following
child explain glad
circle follow quiet
consonant/ vowel improve strange
crowd look forward sudden
description meet traditional
discussion tour
driver
example
explanation
follower
hall
improvement
meeting
mountain/ mount
opinion
phrase
state
stranger
tense
tour
tradition
truth
volcano

UNIT 1 (PLACES) EXTRA WORDS

PRISM 1 Listening and Speaking Wordlist- (June 2022)

 NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB OTHERS
attack accept acceptable abroad pre-
bay attack central afterwards
bowl borrow delighted quickly
castle control necessary
church enter quick
control knock scared
decision unacceptable
entrance unnecessary
ghost
jam
knock
pre-school
prison
prisoner
programme
resort
stairs
theatre
tower

UNIT 2- FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS

NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB OTHERS

PRISM 1 Listening and Speaking Wordlist- (June 2022)

 activity advise active carelessly
advice bake bright commonly
airplane book careless correctly
attention care caring historically
baker carry common hopefully
bakery chase correct last
booklet compete crazy yet
brightness correct cultural
care express cultured
carelessness fight fashionable
college fire formal
competition hope fun
competitor hurry funny
correction join historical
cream mean hopeful
culture prepare hopeless
event record huge
exhibition reply incorrect
expression try informal
fashion write interested
fight interesting
fire last
formality local
fun meaningful
history meaningless
hope noisy
hurry stressed
ice stressful
interest sure
king/ kingdom wild
locals
meaning
movie
noise
pair
poet/ poetry

PRISM 1 Listening and Speaking Wordlist- (June 2022)

 poster
preparation
record
reply
stress
type
writer
UNIT 2 (FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS) EXTRA WORDS
NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB OTHERS
album camp alcoholic flight attendant
alcohol dream amazed
alcoholic fly amazing
amazement laugh blind
beer taste brave
boot grey
bravery passive
camping well-dressed
carrot
cigarette
dream
flight
guy
horror
laughter
loaf
make-up
mineral water
nightmare
scene
slice
taste
toilet
wedding
wine

UNIT 3- THE INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY

PRISM 1 Listening and Speaking Wordlist- (June 2022)

 NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB OTHERS

ability Believe able anymore

advantage complete antisocial completely
belief copy believable especially
brain crash complete lazily
content develop developed nowadays
copy introduce developing possibly
crash phone dirty regularly
development repair extra socially
disadvantage shave ill suddenly
illness socialize impossible
Internet sound irregular
introduction use lazy
laziness main
possibility mid- / middle
present missing
reality possible
repairs real
science regular
scientist secret
secret sociable
society social
sound technological
subject thin
surgeon unbelievable
surgery unreal
technology useful
telephone
use
website

UNIT 3 (THE INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY) EXTRA WORDS

PRISM 1 Listening and Speaking Wordlist- (June 2022)

 NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB OTHERS
appointment give up brilliant immediately
article guide classical
bullet photocopy protective
catalogue protect teenage
cell phone thick
crime
criminal
decade
department
electrician
fact
guide
instructions
photocopy
protection
symbol
teen
teenager
thickness
thief
theft

UNIT 4- WEATHER AND CLIMATE

PRISM 1 Listening and Speaking Wordlist- (June 2022)

 NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB OTHERS

cause choose cool almost landscape design

choice create creative enough
climate feel dangerous environmentally
coast heat energetic exactly
creativity land environmental finally
creator own final happily
creature pass happy probably
danger research normal too
energy shine own
environment upset powerful
feeling shining
final straight
fossil sunny
happiness unhappy
heat upset
heating
land
line
liquid
math
owner
power
research
straight
sun
sunlight
sunset
suntan
voice

UNIT 4 (WEATHER AND CLIMATE) EXTRA WORDS

PRISM 1 Listening and Speaking Wordlist- (June 2022)

 NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB OTHERS
acid behave acid calmly sore throat
behavior plant badly-behaved further
bunch poison calm
bush promise depressed
curtain frightened
depression frightening
disaster further
flu poisonous
laboratory well-behaved
plant
poison
poisoning
promise
questionnaire
row
socks
wind

UNIT 5- SPORTS AND COMPETITION

NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB OTHERS

PRISM 1 Listening and Speaking Wordlist- (June 2022)

 advertisement advertise actual actually different from
advertiser annoy annoyed already Both
application apply annoying clearly Except (for)
champion coach clear definitely
championship escape (from) definite extremely
clerk excel detailed nearly
coach include different obviously
detail jump excellent
escape point extreme
excellence race famous
fame shout healthy
foot/ feet touch human
golf turn intelligent
health obvious
human (being) physical
intelligence several
librarian unhealthy
library unusual
lift (elevator) usual
physics
point
race
reason
shout
train
turn

UNIT 5 (SPORTS AND COMPETITION) EXTRA WORDS

NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB OTHERS

PRISM 1 Listening and Speaking Wordlist- (June 2022)

 adventure apologise alive altogether the same as
ambition delay ambitious the same (as) similar to
apology fail clinical Both
bell hunt delayed Except (for)
belt live fit
calendar pull lucky
clinic push male/ female
delay rope mistaken
drug rude
Failure similar
hunter the same (as)
luck tragic
mistake
physician
rope
size
staff
timetable
tragedy

UNIT 6- BUSINESS
NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB OTHERS

PRISM 1 Listening and Speaking Wordlist- (June 2022)

 audio complain foreign less credit card
bean hold imaginative
boss imagine memorable
case Memorize pleased
complaint tidy problematic
foreigner waste tidy
grocery untidy
imagination
leader
member
membership
Memory
piece
problem
trouble
video
waste

UNIT 6 (BUSINESS) EXTRA WORDS

NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB OTHERS

PRISM 1 Listening and Speaking Wordlist- (June 2022)

 accountant afford affordable enormously multi-
cheque diagnose diagnostic generously
diagnosis lend enormous
diary Mend generous
envelope offer official
exchange rob
farm search
farmer steal
farming wait
generosity
item
jail
law
lawyer
Occupation
offer
official
politician
politics
robber
robbery
ruler
sale
soldier
statistics (department)
tailor
title
uniform
waiter
waitress

UNIT 7- PEOPLE
NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB OTHERS

PRISM 1 Listening and Speaking Wordlist- (June 2022)

 bar collect few instead
camera contact fortunate twice
collection design geographical fortunately
contact educate plastic unfortunately
design pick shocked
designer sail
education travel
educator
fortune
geography
heart
keyboard
literature
sailing
sailor
ship
shock
situation
traveller
twin

UNIT 7 (PEOPLE) EXTRA WORDS

NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB OTHERS

PRISM 1 Listening and Speaking Wordlist- (June 2022)

 ambulance Arrest Asleep quite
ankle brush characteristic shyly
arm comb disappointed
Arrest date lonely
author disappoint Miserable
baby lie personal
beard psychological
birth religious
characteristic shy
cheek
Comb
brush
date
diet
disease
ear
finger
knee
leg
liar
loneliness
mess
misery
neck
nose
novel
novelist
personality
psychology
pupil
relationship
religion
skeleton
stomach

UNIT 8- THE UNIVERSE

PRISM 1 Listening and Speaking Wordlist- (June 2022)

 NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB OTHERS

artist chat eastern absolutely

band (music) decorate general even
career expect golden generally
chapter fish married just
chat guard nervous maybe
couple guess patient nervously
decoration marry retired patiently
diamond paint serious perhaps
difference print silent seriously
economics retire skilled silently
economy review tough
expectation whole
fish
gold
government
ground
guard
guess
head
host
hostess
level
mark
medicine
message
nervousness
painter
painting
patient
printer
printing
radio
reporter
review
ring

PRISM 1 Listening and Speaking Wordlist- (June 2022)

 rock (music)
side
silence
skill
star
temperature

UNIT 8 (THE UNIVERSE) EXTRA WORDS

NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB OTHERS
actress dye swollen
artwork roast tiny
Bat
burglar
burglary
death
dishes
dye
hell
leather
neighbour
neighbourhood
parcel
population
puzzle
seatbelt
supper
tyre
wall
wallet

PRISM 1 Listening and Speaking Wordlist- (June 2022)