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Exam Skills
Building vocabulary Vocabulary notebooks and
word maps
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Vocabulary and word maps
Activity 1
Think of as many words as possible to do with the city and write them in the box.

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Activity 2
Now organise the words you have written down under the headings given below. You can change or
add more headings if you need them.

work

location leisure

the city

facilities

culture

Try regularly using this technique to organise your vocabulary under themes or topics.

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KEY
Activity 2
Example answer

opportunity
office
unemployment
shopping mall
work park
cin

cinema

location leisure

concrete
skyscraper
construction
street
map adjectives
the city
hectic
busy
lonely
exciting

facilities
people
stadium
metro culture bus driver
bank migrant
airport theatre homeless
train station museum policeman
businessman

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