CONTENTS Acknowledgements 5 To the student and the teacher 6 Working with academic vocabulary 1 What is special about academic English? 2 Key nouns 3 Key verbs 4 Key adjectives 5 Key adverbs 6 Phrasal verbs in academic English 7 Key quantifying expressions 8 Words with several meanings 9 Metaphors and idioms Word combinations 10 Nouns and the words they combine 11 Adjective and noun combinations 12 Verbs and the words they combine 13 Prepositional phrases ; 14 Verbs and prepositions , 15 Nouns and prepositions 16 Fixed expressions At academic institutions 17 Applications and application forms 18 College and university: the UK system 19 Systems compared: the US and the UK 20 Academic courses 21 Study habits and skills 22 Online learning Ways of talking about .. 23 Sources 24 Facts, evidence and data 25 Numbers 26 Statistics 27Graphs and diagrams 28Money and education 29Time 30Cause and effect Opinions and ideas 31 Talking about ideas 32 Reporting what others say 33 Analysis of results 34 Talking about meaning 35 Research and study aims 36 Talking about points of view 37 Degrees of certainty Functions 38 Presenting an argument 39 Organising your writing 40 Making a presentation 41 Describing research methods 42 Classifying 43 Making connections 44 Comparing and contrasting 45 Describing problems 46 Describing situations 47 Processes and procedures 48 Describing change 49 Evaluation and emphasis 50 Summary and conclusion Reading and vocabulary 1 Good friends 110 2 Australia 111 3 The World Wide Web 112 4 The human brain 113 5 Nanotechnology 114 6 International law: an overview 115 Reference 1 Formal and informal academic words and expressions 116 2 Numbers, units of measurement and common symbols 120 3 British and North American academic vocabulary 122 4 Spelling variations 126 5 Word formation 128 6 Abbreviations 132 Key136 List of phonemic symbols 166 Index 167