Using this Site

Interactivity

Many of the pages on this site are interactive. This means that by mousing over or clicking on certain parts of a page more information or explanations are revealed. There are also drag and drop elements to help you test your understanding, multiple choice and true/false tests and animations. Most explanations are based on real texts. Where real texts are used, links to the original text are provided. In some cases the excerpts used for explanation can be expanded to reveal the full original text by clicking on this icon . None of the original texts have been altered in any way.

Examples

Click or Mouseover

Drag and Drop

Text which is underlined in this wayMousing UNDER the underlined words reveals extra information. gives further information about the underlined words when you mouse under them.

You can see more information about using the interactive content in this site in this video:

Quizzes

There are many quizzes on this site, mainly concerned with improving your use of academic vocabulary. See the AWL Quizzes pageGo to the AWL Vocabulary Quizzes page to access these resources. You can prepare for these quizzes by using the corresponding flashcardsGo to the AWL Flashcards page.

Collocation Games

There are three types of collocation games on this site: the Collocation Game, which deals with academic vocabulary, Collocation Game 1, which help you learn collocates of general vocabulary, and Five-A-Day, which is a quick once-a-day collocation game also dealing with collocates of general vocabulary. There are also vocabulary quizzes associated with Academic Word of the DayGo to the 'academic word of the day page.'. You can access these via the Word of the Day QuizzesGo to the 'academic word of the day quizzes.' page and the Word of the Day Collocation QuizzesGo to the Word of the Day Collocation Quizzes pages.

Definitions and Searching the Site

As with any disciplineAn area of study., there are words and phrases used in a particular way and with a particular meaning when discussing the topics of writing and text. For this reason we have included a glossaryA list of definitions and explanations of words and phrases, such as this one, explaining terms used in a particular content area, arranged alphabetically. page which explains many of these terms.

You can also click on the search icon at the top of each page to bring up the Search page if you are looking for a particular topic.

This site has been designed as a responsive website and you should be able to view all the pages easily on any device.