Meeting Number :3

Subject : English
Topic : Vocabulary for Reading
Subtopic : Word Forms, Academic Vocab, Collocations, Idioms, Phrasal Verbs
Learning Objectives :
1. SWBAT mention some reasons why vocabulary mastery can support reading
comprehension
2. SWBAT guess the meaning of a word by analyzing its morphological structure
3. SWBAT recognize some typical academic vocabulary as uncommon words and find ways
to improve it
4. SWBAT explain what collocations, idioms, and phrasal verbs are and write down some
examples
5. SWBAT explain why understanding morphology and knowing academic vocabulary,
collocations, idioms, and phrasal verbs are crucial to improve reading comprehension

Pre Test :
Match the following words with the closest meaning.

1. Elaborate a. Arrive
2. Go over b. Predict
3. Economic c. Get
4. Required d. Cancel
5. Call off e. Remember
6. Take away f. Check
7. Estimate g. Explain
8. Look back h. Need
9. Derived i. Profitable
10.Turn up j. Carry off
Activity:
Please fill in the blank using the previous list of words.

Elaborates Go over Economic Required Call off

Take away Estimated Look back Derived Turn up

1. You need to _____your essay for spell-check before you hand in your exam paper.
2. The man I was waiting for didn’t _____ .
3. The research _____ the recent social phenomenon in Twitter.
4. She _____ no benefit from the course of drugs.
5. The cost of the project has been _____ at about 10 million dollars.
6. He _____ on his time as president with pride.
7. There will be a _____ crisis at the end of this year.
8. You need to _____ the conference because not enough people have registered.
9. He sends soldiers among us to _____ our liberty.
10.To effect this result _____ many years of discussion and experiment.
Match the sentence with options which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase!

1. Trust Ria’s mother to spill the

beans as she sees no reason
why she shouldn’t do it.
A. Strict
2. The government of the nations
is not hard and fast with the
lockdown rules during B. Extremely Happy
pandemic disease.

3. She is on cloud nine since she C. readily available

heard the news of her
destination engagement. D. make money quickly

4. The secretary had the E. Reveal the secret

information at her fingertips.

5. His investments helped him

make a killing in the stock
market.
Can you match the appropriate word in the box with the sentence?

DO HAVE MAKE

1. I hope to _____ my own business one day.

2. My wife usually ____ the bed, rather than me.
3. I _____ a mistake in my IELTS reading last time I took the test.
4. I _____ my break at work at 3.15 p.m,
5. I _____ the dishes on Sundays after dinner.
Post Test :
Choose the correct answer for the following questions!
1. The noodles look so delicious that everyone wants to ______ .
a. dig up d. dig in
b. pile up e. put up
c. pile on

2. I find it hard to ---- with the other students in the Italian class as they have been attending
the classes more regularly than I do.
a. fall through d. catch up
b. call in e. come up
c. do away

3. I ____ my shopping on the weekends.

a. do d. did
b. have e. made
c. make
4. Reading a lot _____ real difference to your IELTS score.
a. does d. do
b. has e. have
c. makes
5. “Please take care of that valuable ring. It's antique stuff.”

Antonym of the underlined word is…

a. Degrade d. Worthy
b. Decrease e. Worthless
c. Descend
6. “She was walking on air after receiving the announcement”

The underlined idiom has the closest meaning to…

a. Depression d. Flying
b. Blissful e. Dreaming
c. Miserable
7. Did you _____ everything you needed to today?
a. Accomplished d. Accomplishing
b. Accomplish e. Accomplishes
c. Accomplishes
8. I am pleased to _____ you that you have won first prize in this month's competition.
a. Information d. Inform
b. Informing e. Informs
c. Informed
9. As I have just had a tooth ____ , I am not allowed to eat or drink anything for three hours.
a. run out d. taken out
b. tried on e. broken off
c. crossed out
10. Look through your old clothes and see if you have anything to give away.

The bold words have the meaning that..,

a. Pay a short visit

b. Consider the past
c. Investigate
d. Be careful
e. Examine a number of things to select some of them
Write down your conclusion about what we have learned in this meeting on the column
below!
Conclusion: