Oxford Academic Vocabulary Practice Upper-Intermediate B2-C1 with Key

Description

The academic vocabulary covered by the series is sourced from the Academic Word List, and the Oxford Corpus of Academic English. The Corpus is an 85-million-word corpus of academic sources, developed by Oxford University Press, the world's authority on the English language. The Corpus shows how words are used across the four main subject areas of physical sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and humanities

Table of contents

Section 1 Academic Study
Unit 1: University study
Unit 2: Academic disciplines 1
Unit 3: Academic disciplines 2
Unit 4: Structuring an assignment
Unit 5: Describing visual data
Unit 6: Research in the sciences
Unit 7: Research in social sciences
Review 1: Units 1-7

Section 2 Describing key concepts
Unit 8: Classification
Unit 9: Structure
Unit 10: Time
Unit 11: Starting and finishing
Unit 12: Trends
Unit 13: Change
Unit 14: Place
Unit 15: People
Unit 16: Quantity
Review 2: Units 8-16

Section 3 Analysis and evaluation
Unit 17: Cause and effect
Unit 18: Compare and contrast
Unit 19: Problem and solution
Unit 20: Evidence
Unit 21: Theory and concepts
Unit 22: Critical thinking
Unit 23: Belief and opinion
Unit 24: Positive evaluation
Unit 25: Negative evaluation
Review 3: Units 17-25

Section 4 Vocabulary skills
Unit 26: Word families
Unit 27: Nouns and noun phrases
Unit 28: Verbs in academic writing
Unit 29: Dependent prepositions
Unit 30: Affixes
Unit 31: Collocation
Unit 32: Synonyms

Section 5 Functions in academic writing
Unit 33: Hedging
Unit 34: Emphasis
Unit 35: Citation
Unit 36: Linking
Review 4: Units 26-36

Section 6 Academic disciplines
Unit 37: Maths and statistics
Unit 38: Science and engineering
Unit 39: Medicine
Unit 40: Social sciences
Unit 41: Law
Unit 42: Politics
Unit 43 Business
Unit 44: Economics and finance
Unit 45: Language and communication
Review 5 Unites 37-45

Academic and language terms
Collocations
Dependent prepositions
Affixes
Answer key