Vocab Test – Part B

lexical cloze
Aim
• to assess your vocabulary knowledge, including your understanding of
collocation, fixed phrases and phrasal verbs
Collocation - a word or phrase that is often used with another word or
phrase

Look at this adjective + noun collocation:

a heavy meal NOT a strong meal

BUT:
a strong drink NOT a heavy drink
Words with similar meanings
1 ... very young children hope /expect to wear a Calvin Klein watch ...
2 ... their followers hope/expect to be able to buy the company's
products ...
3 .. . 60 per cent are willing to buy/spend the same amount of
money ...
4 ... which might make/do harm to their image.
5 ... they would rather buy/spend counterfeit designer wear ...
Phrasal verbs
• Literal • Idiomatic (sometimes with more
than one meaning)

e.g. She threw the ball up in the 1. To vomit.

air. 2. To produce problems, ideas , results
etc; The arrangement may throw up
problems in other areas.
3. To construct hurriedly: …shoddy houses
that were thrown up in a few months.
4. To refer to something repeatedly: She
threw up his past to him whenever they
argued.
Verb + particle (preposition/adverb)
Separable
Separable phrasal verbs are
transitive (they can take a direct
object), and the direct object can
separate the verb and the adverb
(or preposition).
e.g.
I need to take back the shirt I
lent you.
Where’s that shirt I lent you? I
need to take it back.
Inseparable
Some phrasal verbs cannot be
separated (intransitive). This means
that when we want to use an object,
it must always come after the
complete phrasal verb.
e.g. Everyone must get on the
plane and fasten their seatbelts
before we can take off.
Activity – How many phrasal verbs do you know?
Groups of 5

https://www.englishclub.com/ref/Phrasal_Verbs/
Vocab Test – Part B
Task strategy
1. Read the title and whole text quickly, ignoring the spaces.
2. Read the text again. Look at the words before and after each gap to
help you guess what kind of word fits each space.
3. Choose which answer A-D fits the grammar and meaning.
4. If you aren't sure, cross out answers which you know are incorrect.
5. Read the text again to check.
Example
LEARNING TO MAKE A PERFECT PIZZA
According to the European Pizza-Makers' Association, making a good
pizza is not a straightforward skill to (0) ...... The ingredients seem very
(1) ..... : flour, yeast, water and a bit of salt. But water and flour can
easily (2) ..... glue and anyone who has eaten a (3) ..... quality pizza will
know how bad it can make your stomach (4) ..... .
0 A learn B capture C discover D get
1 A simple B prim ary C pure D regular

2 A m ix B construct C assemble D make

3 A sad B poor C short D weak

4 A sense B do C feel D be
Practice
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