Academic Word List games/ worksheets

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Updated 19 September 2019

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Academic English games/ worksheets main page

Teaching the Academic Word List article

How to teach the Academic Word List

Worksheets teaching/ practising other language along with the AWL

Academic Word List word formation challenge game

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Academic Word List hedging/ generalising practice

Defining Academic Word List vocabulary (with defining your terms phrases)

Academic Word List giving examples guessing game

Academic Word List advantages and disadvantages phrases practice

Academic Word List phrases for expressing purpose practice

Academic Word List comparing and contrasting phrases practice

Academic Word List practice of expressing cause and effect

Academic English language of concession

Academic Word List word formation challenge game

Academic Word List trends language

Academic Word List vocabulary for expressing certainty and uncertainty

Academic Word List positive and negative connotations

Academic Word List vocabulary with negative prefixes

Academic Word List collocations pairwork

Other AWL games/ worksheets

Academic Word List call my bluff

Academic Word List dominoes

Online AWL practice

AWL exercises on englishvocabularyexercises.com (select the right word from the list – seemingly randomly generated and therefore a bit easy to guess and boring, but could be useful for well-motivated students and at least the language is in context)

Academic Word List: Group 1 on examenglish.com (match one of three words to the definition – boring, easy to guess without really knowing, lots of unnecessary clicking – and also not true you need the AWL for IELTS as suggested – not recommended!)