TEST YOUR VOCABULARY!TASK: Write out a vocabulary test for your unit. Write the key on a separate sheet.Procedure:

Go through your unit and mark words / collocations / phrases you want to test.Look at the template below and work out tasks. Use as many of the expressions you have marked as possible.

Aim: Complete the template. ( Use vocabulary from other topical areas if necessary )

Deadline: Finish by the first week after the holidays.

UNIT: _5____ AUTHORS: _Gabriela, Julia_____________________LEVEL 1: WORD KNOWLEDGEA) Translate1) ____vaccination__________________ = Impfung_________________________

2) _____ancestor_______________ = Vorfahre________________________

3) _____sophisticated_________________ = kultiviert, weltoffen

4) _____abolition_________________ = _Abschaffung_____________________

B) Label pictures Draw / copy ‘vocabulary’ pictures

C) Word fields ( complete mind maps / make lists )Suggest mind maps or lists ( e.g.: ‘4 greenish fruit’ … )

LEVEL 2: RELATED WORDS ( synonyms – antonyms – explain the difference - derivatives )A) Synonyms ( = ) and antonyms ( - ) 1) evidence = proof____________________

2) fertile = rich____________________

3) ancestor - descendant____________________

B) What is the difference? Explain or give a clear example.1) evidence________________ - facts_____ Archaeologists are looking for evidence

like tools or bones, which leads to assumptions - and facts are proven to be

true.________________

2) score ________________ - figures____ What’s the score of the match? What were

our sales figures last year?_________________

3) tribes________________ - dynasties___A king’s family is a dynasty and the Apaches

are a tribe of Indians__________________

4) beliefs________________ - opinions______There are different beliefs, like

Christianity, Islam, Judaism and people have different opinions about a

topic._______________

5) historic/ historical __ historic means an important event, building, etc. and historical is

used in connection with studies of, research into or presentations concerning the

past .__________________

C) Derivatives. Write a FCE-type word formation task: Give noun, verb, adjective, adverb, person or whatever you can think ofarchaeology – archaeologist, archaeological

survival – survivor, survive

invade – invasion, invader

to add – addition, additional, added

civilisation- civilise, civilian

fighter- fight, to fight,

LEVEL 3: PHRASES AND COLLOCATIONS ( = words that go together )A) Matching words ( add tasks at the end )

B) Cloze textsa) The talks went on for three days, but no solutions/result were reached.

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b) There are no written records which go back this far.

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c) What we know about our ancestors from the evidence archaeologists have found.

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d) They survived by hunting animals and gathering berries. Nowadays children are just

chasing animals for fun.

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LEVEL 4: TRANSFER: summarizing, voicing opinions, writing texts etc.Suggest two topics to write about, e.g.: describe an experience / express your opinion / give a number of words to be used in a continuous text

1) Family history= ancestor – settle- invade- foreigner________________2) How to survive in prehistoric Britain: hunt – goods- tools- gather________________________________________________________

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ADDITIONAL TASKS

Great wall of China cave paintings

tools

hunting

Matching wordsOn airports you normally have to kill time.In the morning all the businessmen travel during the rush hour

goods(related nouns and verbs)

fruits vegetables tools

consumecotton

meatwool

produce

trade

When I’m shopping, time flies