1. ENGLESKI JEZIK STRUKE 3
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2. ACADEMIC VOCABULARY
Additional teaching materials – exercises, pages 1– 5

3. Academic nouns - plural forms
analysis
hypothesis
phenomenon
thesis
research
index
corpus
appendix
basis
species
stimulus
advice
progress
information
series
technology
datum

4. Academic nouns - plural forms (key)
Analysis - analyses
Hypothesis - hypotheses
phenomenon -phenomena
Thesis - theses
Research - /
Index - indices
Corpus - corpora
Appendix - appendices
Basis - bases
species -species
Stimulus - stimuli
Advice - /
Progress - /
information - /
Series - series
technology - /
datum - data

5. Academic verbs

6. Academic verbs 1. VERBS OF REFERENCE
used when introducing quotations or summaries of other writers’ ideas (e.g. claims / states)
2. (AVOIDING) PHRASAL VERBS
e.g. carry out, bring about
3. (AVOIDING) FILLER VERBS
verbs to replace V+N phrases

7. CONSIDERS HYPOTHESIZES
Verbs of reference
The author
SAYS or
SHOWS A REACTION or…
The author also..
The author + verb+ someone/thing + for + noun / gerund
The author + verb+ somebody/thing + as + noun/gerund
ARGUES
CLAIMS
CONSIDERS HYPOTHESIZES
SUGGESTS
BELIEVE
THINKS
STATES
ACCEPTS ADMITS
AGREES
DENIES
DOUBTS
ASSUMES CONCLUDES DISCOVERS EXPLAINS IMPLIES
INDICATES MAINTAINS PRESUMES REVEALS SHOWS
BLAMES CENSURES COMMENDS CONDEMNS CRITICISES
ASSESSES CHARACTERIZES CLASSIFIES DEFINES DESCRIBES
EVALUATES IDENTIFIES INTERPRETS PORTRAYS PRESENTS

8. Write a sentence referring to what the following writers said (more than one verb may be suitable). Use the past tense.
A: ‘I may have made a mistake in my forecast for unemployment’.
B: ‘I did not say that women make better managers than men’.
C: ‘Small firms are more dynamic than large ones’.
D: ‘I’m not sure, but most people probably work to earn
money’.
E: ‘I think it unlikely that electric cars will replace conventional
ones’.
F: ‘There may be a link between the business cycle and sunspot
activity’.

9. REFERENCE VERBS (CONT’D)
G: ‘She was very careless about her research methods’.
H: ‘There are four main types of business start-up’.
I: ‘That company has an excellent pattern of corporate governance’.
J: ‘Their annual results indicate over-reliance on a shrinking market’.
K: ‘Only three of the airlines are likely to make a profit this year’.
L: ‘Keynes was the most influential economist of the twentieth century’.

10. Suggested answers The author…
G. blamed / criticized X for being careless
A. admitted (to having made a mistake / that he had made a mistake)
H. classified X into…
B. denied
I. evaluated ..governance.. As being excellent
C. claimed / argued
J. criticized X for being too reliant…
D. suggested…
K. assessed .. only three airlines as being..
E. assumed / believed…
L. portrayed … as being…
F. believed / thought / assumed

11. avoiding phrasal verbs
COME UP
COME UP AGAINST
CUT OUT
FIND OUT
GO TOGETHER
LOOK INTO
PUT OFF
START OFF
THINK ABOUT
WORK OUT
BEGIN
ARISE
CALCULATE
COINCIDE
CONSIDER
DELAY
INVESTIGATE
EXPERIENCE
DISCOVER
REMOVE

12. Key come up - arise put off - delay come up against - experience
start off - begin
think about - consider
cut out - remove
work out - calculate
find out - discover
go together - coincide
look into - investigate

13. Avoiding phrasal verbs
Additional teaching materials, page 11, 12 (exercises 3.7 and 3.8)

14. Avoiding filler verbs We conducted a study of group III-IV compounds.
This paper presents an analysis of the environmental effects…
Additional materials, page 10, exercises 3.5, 3.6

15. Remove unnecessary words and phrases
This paper review is absolutely essential.
This author introduced the Sociolinguistic Theory for the first time.
The two variables are mutually interdependent.
In general, it is claimed that the phenomenon of globalization has had an effect on the process of glocalization.

16. Reading and writing critically
Additional materials, page