VOCABULARY UNIT 2

accuracy – accurate – accurately

articulate
awareness – to be aware of
beneficial
bilingual – bilingualism
command – an excellent command of English
fluency – fluent – fluently
eternal – eternity
influential
interaction - interactive
intriguing
loanword
mother tongue
native, non-native speaker
numerous
objection
punctuation
relevance – relevant to - irrelevant
reward – financial reward – to bring rewards
rusty – to get a bit rusty
short-sighted
suitable - unsuitable

to assess
to assume – assumption
to determine - determination
to expect – expectation – unexpected
to engage with
to evaluate – evaluation
to insist on
to switch
to persuade – persuasion - persuasive
to pick up (a language)
to reassure - reassurance
to stand the test of time

Collocations with make, get, do (p. 20)

Reading – Movies helping learn a language (p. 22, 23)

merit – on its own merits
overseas
questionnaire
script – scriptwriter – movie script
temptation – to be tempted to do stg
to allocate
to capture
to drift into
to investigate – investigation
to maximise
to minimise
to quote – quotation
to reject
Reading – Remote working (WB p. 11)
ample time
burnout
commute – commuter – to commute
consequence - consequently
distraction – to distract
incentive
nerve-(w)racking
out of sight, out of mind
output
supervision – to supervise
to distinguish – distinguishable – indistinguishable
to reap the rewards
workforce
work-life balance
workload

Word formation (p. 21, WB p. 9)

act – activity – interaction – actively
commune – community
convention – un/conventional
differ – differentiate – different – indifferent - difference
estimate – underestimate
ethnic – ethnicity
influential
lead – misleading – leadership
measure – measurable – unmeasurable
numerous