Academic vocabulary: Group 17

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accurate - appreciate - broadcast - command - conclude - debate - decline - device - elementary - indeed - predict - principle - priority - proceed - propose - resident - shift - utilize - valid - valuable

elementary	1.	It was a very ........... problem. All the students were able to solve it within 5 minutes.
principle	2.	Can you please explain the ........... by which students are placed in ESL class?
predict	3.	It's usually possible for teachers to ........... quite closely what grades their students are going to get in tests.
accurate	4.	Your writing is very ........... in fact, it contains no mistakes at all.
valid	5.	If you want to travel at half-price on the trains and buses in Frankfurt, you need a ........... identity card with the school stamp.
broadcast	6.	The school chose not to ........... news of the teacher's accident.
shift	7.	There has been a recent ........... in language teaching towards more grammar and vocabulary.
debate	8.	The students took part in a ........... to decide whether Germany should continue to use nuclear power to generate electricity.
valuable	9.	We have a painting at home that's very ........... . It must be worth more than a million dollars!
conclude	10.	I will ........... my presentation with an example of sea pollution.
appreciate	11.	I ........... the reasons for your failure to hand in the work on time. Nevertheless, our policy requires me to give you a zero.
utilize	12.	You are recommended to ........... the computer to do your writing.
resident	13.	Every second ........... of Frankfurt is a non-native speaker of German.
propose	14.	Following today's meeting the headmaster will ........... to parents that they do not send their children to school with junk food.
priority	15.	Your ........... is to learn the English words that will help you be successful in your school subjects.
device	16.	The Smartboard is an excellent ........... for teaching language.
decline	17.	The number of students at the school with learning difficulties has begun to ........... in the last few years.
indeed	18.	The ESL students at this school usually take longer than native speakers to do the same work. ........... some of them regularly work for 3-4 hours every evening.
command	19.	He will never be a good teacher. He has no ........... of the class.
proceed	20.	When you finish unit 1, please do the questions and then ........... to unit 3. You don't need to do unit 2.

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