Practice Upper Intermediate B2 [exclusive] | Oxford Academic Vocabulary

All exercises have a complete answer key at the back. This is crucial for independent learners. You can check your work, understand your mistakes, and learn without a teacher.

Leveraging the Oxford Corpus, the practice activities reflect how language is Oxford Academic Vocabulary Practice Upper Intermediate B2

Useful reference sections focus on collocations , affixes , and dependent prepositions , which are the building blocks of professional-sounding sentences. The Impact on Writing Style All exercises have a complete answer key at the back

Before you begin, take the short diagnostic test in the introduction. Identify your weak areas. Are you bad at describing trends? Weak on prefixes and suffixes? Focus there first. Are you bad at describing trends

Within two months, her feedback from professors changed from "Your grammar is okay" to "Your written style is appropriately formal." She credits the repetitive gap-fill exercises in for automating her brain to reach for therefore instead of so .

Includes a 650-word glossary with definitions and phonetics, plus dedicated sections on collocations , affixes , and dependent prepositions .

After finishing a unit, immediately look for those words in the wild. Open a BBC News article, a TED Talk transcript, or a page from your actual textbook. Underline every word you studied that week. This reinforces that the vocabulary is "real" and useful.