English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced Book with Answers and Enhanced eBook Vocabulary Reference and Practice 3rd Edition

Complete the table using the words from the box. Do not fill the shaded boxes.
shades kids endeavour cop really useful ensure umbrella employ children
neutral
formal
informal
off spring
sunglasses
policeman/woman
police off icer
brolly
invaluable
make sure
try
use
Decide whether these words are more likely to be associated with everyday spoken or 
everyday written English. Write S or W next to the word.
1 frequently 2 start 3 begin 4 maybe 5 moreover
What do you think are the present-day equivalents of these now-outdated English words? 
Use a dictionary if necessary.
1 apothecary 2 damsel 3 poesy 4 whither
Look at these text extracts and decide which register types you would classify them in. 
Underline key words which help you decide the register. For example, if you think the 
text is ‘written, formal, poetic and archaic’, which word(s) make you think that?
Some register types
:
 
literary / poetic / non-literary academic / non-academic 
archaic / modern technical / non-technical spoken / written formal / informal
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Sweetest love, I do not go, 
For weariness of thee, 
Nor in hope the world can show 
A fitter love for me; 
But since that I 
Must die at last, ’tis best, 
To use myself in jest 
Thus by feigned deaths to die.
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And so, my fellow Americans: ask 
not what your country can do for 
you – ask what you can do for your 
country. My fellow citizens of the 
world: ask not what America will 
do for you, but what together we 
can do for the freedom of man.
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Mind you there was a 
lot of rain in Germany 
over Christmas wasn’t 
there, cos I saw the river 
in Bonn on the news on 
telly, the Rhine. Yeah, 
the river in Bonn.
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Views are certainly divided on the answers to 
the questions listed above; even whether it 
matters that pluralism and diff erent paradigms 
reign in SLA is a matter of heated debate.
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