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VOCABULARY LIST
These are the words and phrases we will be focussing on in the vocabulary practice below. Which words/phrases do you know already? Are there any that you've never seen before?

Nouns
✤activity ✤aspect ✤attitude ✤(achieve a) balance ✤competition ✤creativity ✤daily routine ✤desire ✤disappointment ✤experience ✤fulfilment ✤goal ✤hobby ✤insight ✤leisure ✤lifestyle ✤optimist ✤outlook ✤opportunity ✤personality ✤pessimist ✤priority ✤pressure ✤realist ✤risk-taker ✤self-expression ✤sense

Adjectives
✤active ✤bored ✤confused ✤dissatisfied ✤intense ✤materialistic ✤negative ✤outdoor ✤positive ✤recreational ✤successful

Verbs
✤achieve (a goal) ✤appeal ✤attract ✤choose ✤express ✤enjoy ✤fulfil ✤improve ✤motivate ✤participate ✤regret ✤relax ✤satisfy

Verb Phrases
✤lead a happy life ✤live life on the edge ✤live life to the full ✤make a choice ✤make a decision ✤make a living ✤meet a need ✤miss (an opportunity) ✤play a role ✤put pressure on ✤set (a goal) ✤take part (in) ✤work hard for a living

Phrases with life or living
✤all walks of life ✤cost of living ✤lifelong ambition ✤living expenses ✤once-in-a-lifetime opportunity ✤standard of living ✤way of life

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SHOW YOUR PROGRESS
Before you do any of the exercises below, make sure you have completed one or both of the tasks in the Show Your Progress PDF (download it below). Remember to keep a record of how you answered the questions.

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VOCABULARY PRACTICE
Work through these exercises in this order to learn and practice the above vocabulary.

1. Exercise I

2. Exercise II — Collocation

3. Exercise III

4. Exercise IV — Collocation

5. Exercise V

Now go to the next lecture in this section for some practice in IELTS listening (Part Two).

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