Christina Goudis
TEFL Academy Assignment A
Vocabulary matching exercise
B2 Upper Intermediate
Vocabulary Matching Exercise for Comprehension entitled ‘What Made Me the Way I
am?’
In your groups match the following vocabulary words or phrases in column A with the
definitions in column B.
1. to reflect A. Something that is usual or ordinary.
2. to influence B. To start getting along with people
whom you didn’t get along before.
3. mining C. a big a business or company which
builds profits( people make money out of
it.)
4. a pit D. To have more skills in something than
others, or to have learned things a long
time before others have.
5. a diplomat E. The way of life that people usually lead.
A routine lifestyle such as waking up,
going to work etc.
6. to be rebellious F. A person appointed by a nation to
represent that country abroad.
7. an enterprise G. A big hole that has been made from
mining.
8. mainstream lifestyle H. The process of obtaining natural
resources such as gold, diamonds, coal
digging the earth.
9. conventional I. To not want to follow rules.
10. to be hostile J. For something or someone to change
something in our character or what we
want to do.
11. to make peace K. To think carefully about, or to go back
in time with thinking.
12. to be way ahead of someone. L. Showing opposition or dislike to
somebody.
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TEFL Academy Assignment A
Vocabulary matching exercise
B2 Upper Intermediate
Vocabulary Matching Exercise for Comprehension entitled ‘What Made Me the Way I
am?’
In your groups match the following vocabulary words or phrases in column A with the
definitions in column B.
1. to reflect A. Something that is usual or ordinary.
2. to influence B. To start getting along with people
whom you didn’t get along before.
3. mining C. a big a business or company which
builds profits( people make money out of
it.)
4. a pit D. To have more skills in something than
others, or to have learned things a long
time before others have.
5. a diplomat E. The way of life that people usually lead.
A routine lifestyle such as waking up,
going to work etc.
6. to be rebellious F. A person appointed by a nation to
represent that country abroad.
7. an enterprise G. A big hole that has been made from
mining.
8. mainstream lifestyle H. The process of obtaining natural
resources such as gold, diamonds, coal
digging the earth.
9. conventional I. To not want to follow rules.
10. to be hostile J. For something or someone to change
something in our character or what we
want to do.
11. to make peace K. To think carefully about, or to go back
in time with thinking.
12. to be way ahead of someone. L. Showing opposition or dislike to
somebody.
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