Word of the week: give
Last week’s Word of the Week featured the verb take and now it’s the turn of another very frequent verb in English, give. The entry below spans the first four CEFR levels and the phrases give way and give rise to sth will be added at the C levels. Learners meet the basic meaning of the verb PROVIDE at A1 level, which is likely to be commonly used in the language classroom, as in Can you give me your homework? Some of the A2 meanings may already be known at A1 but the evidence is not there at the moment – as the entry shows, three of these meanings actually have B1 Learner examples rather than examples at A2. We are currently building the Cambridge English Profile Corpus, a new corpus of learner English, to encompass non-exam writing and spoken data, which will inform subsequent iterations of the English Vocabulary Profile. If you and your students are able to take part in our data collection project, you will gain free access to the EVP resource. The English Profile website has more details – follow this link to the page on Data Collection.To view the full entry for give on the English Vocabulary Profile, please click here.
