Identifying words and phrases appropriate to the context 

Practice for the communicative skill of reading, subskill identifying words and phrases appropriate to the context.

The PTE Academic item types where this subskill is tested are
  • Reading: Multiple choice, choose single answer
  • Reading: Multiple choice, choose multiple answers
  • Reading: Reading, Fill in the blanks
  • Reading: Reading & Writing, Fill in the blanks
Click on the link below for more information on the resource Summary of how this subskill is practiced in each resource
Academic Encounters: Human Behavior: learning words related to specific topics in psychology and communications, understanding levels of formality expressed in vocabulary, understanding word groups, recognizing collocations
Academic Encounters: Life in Society: learning words related to specific topics in sociology, using knowledge of related words, recognizing collocations
Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary: confirming the meaning of words with example sentences
Creating Meaning: identifying and using collocations, recognizing and using lead-in expressions
Inside Reading 1,
Inside Reading 2, Inside Reading 3, Inside Reading 4:
practicing vocabulary activities in a range of academic subject areas
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: confirming the meaning of words with example sentences to clarify usage
Macmillan English Dictionary:

highlighting the most commonly used words

New Headway Academic Skills 3: recognizing collocations, understanding compound nouns and adjectives, understanding words with multiple meanings, recognizing formal and informal vocabulary
NorthStar Reading and Writing 3: identifying collocations, identifying correct word forms
NorthStar Reading and Writing 5: finding collocations
Panorama Reading 2, Panorama Reading 3: focusing on words in context, word families, words and their definitions
Select Readings Pre-Intermediate: learning words in context, understanding words with more than one meaning, learning synonyms, grouping words and phrases, recognizing word forms
Select Readings Intermediate: recognizing word forms, understanding how words are grouped to communicate meaning
Strategic Reading 1: recognizing words that have similar meanings, distinguishing between words that sound the same, recognizing word formation and word families
Strategic Reading 2: recognizing words that have similar meanings, distinguishing between words that sound the same, recognizing word formation
Strategic Reading 3: interpreting meaning in specific contexts
Well Read 2,
Well Read 3,
Well Read 4:
understanding vocabulary in context