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VOCABULARY FOCUS
1 Fill in: recognize , competition, influence, inform, examine,
together, learn , explain , carry .
1 To identify means to ............................................ someone or
something.
2 To analyse means to ................................ data or a problem.
3 To compete means to take part in a .................................. .
4 To affect means to have an ............................................ on.
5 To investigate means to .................................... more about
a subject.
6 To collect means to bring things .................................. from
a number of different places or times.
7 To conduct means to organise or to .............................. out.
8 To report means to ................................ others in writing or
speaking about something that has happened.
9 To present means to show something to other people and
................................. it.
3 Investigating
4 Circle the words that collocate
with the underlined words.
1 The director quickly reported his
findings to the team.
2 The history students presented
their data to their classmates.
3 He investigated the crime after
the police contacted him.
4 Always follow normal procedures
if anything goes wrong.
5 The results didn’t let them draw
any conclusions.
6 The police collected evidence from
all the people who saw the crime.
7 I don’t have any significant
findings unfortunately.
8 You need to identify a problem
carefully before you can research it.
3 What verbs do each of these nouns come from? Write the
verbs in the blanks and underline the suffixes in the nouns.
1 analysis ..................
2 procedure ..................
3 administration ..................
4 decision ..................
5 basis ..................
6 investigation ..................
7 conclusion ..................
8 participation ..................
9 failure ..................
10 calculation ..................
11 connection ..................
12 preparation ..................
2 Correct the mistakes in the definition of these words by
changing or removing words.
1 significant: not important ..................................
2 evidence: proof that something is false ..................................
3 data: information needed by research ..................................
4 conclusion: an opinion you form
before considering all the facts ..................................
5 competent: not very good at something ..................................
6 procedure: series of steps animals normally
follow to carry out a process ..................................
7 findings: what you avoid from an
investigation ..................................
5 The following sentences contain
mistakes – underline the mistake
and correct it.
e.g. It was a great discover. Discovery
1 We need to procedure very
carefully to get accurate results.
..................................................
2 He did a very careful analyse of his
findings before writing the report.
................................................
3 They carried out the research by
interview lots of people.
..................................................
4 We had so many findings that it
was difficult to presentation
them briefly.
..................................................
5 There was a signify amount of
data.
..................................................
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