The words in the Academic Word occur in all subjects. All the words in the Academic Word List are included in these exercises. If you want to learn all the words, you will need to do all the exercises. I suggest you start with the ones that look interesting. For most of these exercises, I have used Range by Paul Nation to select the words.
Exercise 1: The Motor Car
Exercise 2: Introduction to Computers
Exercise 3: Measurement of Current
Exercise 4: An Experiment in Chemistry
Exercise 5: The History of Life on Earth
Exercise 6: Cells
Exercise 7: Alternatives to the Concept of a Body Clock
Exercise 8: Charles Darwin
Exercise 9: Natural Selection
Exercise 10: Malaria: Discovery by Committee
Exercise 11: Causes of Cancer
Exercise 12: Attempted Suicide
Exercise 13: Indications for Psychiatric Inpatient Care
Exercise 14: Aerospace Medicine
Exercise 15: The Immune System
Exercise 16: The Concept of Number
Exercise 17: Carbohydrate and Fibre
Exercise 18: Affluence and Inequality
Exercise 19: The Travelling Salesman
Exercise 20: Stocks
Exercise 21: Business Cycle
Exercise 22: Banking
Exercise 23: Globalisation
Exercise 24: On the Motivation to Work
Exercise 25: Trading in Other Securities
Exercise 26: Interest
Exercise 27: Inflation and Deflation
Exercise 28: Retailing Strategy
Exercise 29: Common and Preferred Stock
Exercise 30: Company Structure
Exercise 31: Recruitment and Selection
Exercise 32: The Problem of Production
Exercise 33: History of Tourism
Exercise 34: Commercialism and Sport
Exercise 35: European Union
Exercise 36: The Public Order Act
Exercise 37: Causing Death
Exercise 38: Requirements for Murder
Exercise 39: Treason
Exercise 40: Crime, Deprivation and Morality
Exercise 41: Martial Law
Exercise 42: Modern Developments in Law
Exercise 43: 20th Century British History
Exercise 44: Time in History
Exercise 45: 1931 General Election
Exercise 46: Tackling the Inner Cities
Exercise 47: Ethics
Exercise 48: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Exercise 49: Language
Exercise 50: Music
Exercise 51: Educational Research
Exercise 52: Statistics in Language Studies
Exercise 53: Overseas Students in Higher Education
Exercise 54: Teaching English with Video
Exercise 55: Royal Dutch/Shell Group
Exercise 56: An Observation and an Explanation
Index to words in exercises (html)
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