Section: Low-High Intermediate | Vocabulary

Grabaword ( formerly In The News)

- activities to help low to high intermediate level English students learn high frequency words as efficiently as possible while improving their listening skills and knowledge about a range of topical issues. Activities for each story are designed to be completed in easy to follow, sequential steps within approximately 45 minutes.

Reports are carefully selected from:

Behind The News (more suitable for low intermediate to intermediate level) and
ABC’s The World Today (more suitable for intermediate to high intermediate) and include links to an audio and a transcript.

HOW TO ACCESS GRABAWORD LESSONS

To access these lessons, please go to grabaword.com sign up page (this link opens in a new tab) and add the following code:

24896427323110 (copy and paste this - take care there is no space after the last number)

This access to GrabaWord is also in the Listening and Reading sections of Independent Learning.

Other resources

VOA - Voice Of America - Intermediate level Page

Please also check out the Grabaword lessons based on VOA (See above link)

VOA - Major news URL

Learn English as you read and listen to a weekly show about a major story in the news.

English Vocabulary Exercises - General List URL

- intermediate to advanced

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Vocabulary

Topic outline

Low-High Intermediate