Collocations

Master English collocations! Practice common word pairs and improve your vocabulary with interactive exercises.

Take your books, please, open them on page 11 and look at exercise 5. Then click on audio question to listen to four dialogues and match them to sentences 1-5. Put X next to the sentence you do not need: The person with a problem:1 accepts an offer of help C2 does not follow the advice A3 is embarrased to ask for advice X4 feels bad because a friend is cross B5 refuses an offer of help D Now take a look at exercise 6. You are going to listen to dialogues B,C and D again to complete the collocations (=words that go together) with the given verbs. You have the examples for dialogue A: Dialogue B 3 take offence 4 give somebody a call Dialogue C5 tell the truth6 have a word (with somebody)Dialogue D7 make an excuse8 tell a lie Here is an example of a mind map to learn collocations with give. Write give in the middle and suitable collocations. Your examples may be different from the ones I have put as possible solutions, I will check them and give you feedback. GIVE somebody a hand somebody a lift somebody a ring your word advice an example Choose three verbs and make your own maps, draw them in your notebooks, take photos and upload them into our yammer group. Look at your classmates' mind maps and write your comments to two of them (if you notice a mistake or what you have learned from it).