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Collocation

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vocabulary:
compound nouns
 
vocabulary:
verb + noun combinations
 
 
 
 
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Verb collocations - go, take, get, do - matching activity
B1-B2
20-30 mins
groups: 3-4
 
Sixteen matching dominoes with the beginnings and ends of questions, each containing a verb collocation with go, take, get or do.
 
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Adverbs with gradable and non-gradable adjectives - matching
C1
30 mins
groups: 3-4
 
Sixteen matching dominoes for intensifying adjectives and nouns: absolutely gorgeous, absolute rubbish etc.
 
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Material from other sources

 
Tools
 
 
MICASE (spoken corpus) external link icon
Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English [152 transcripts (totaling 1,848,364 words) recorded 1997 - 2000] Free online search
 
University of Michigan English Language Institute
 
British National Corups at Brigham Young University external link icon
Gives examples in context for a word or phrase. Other corpus functions available.
 
BNC - Oxford University Computing Services
 
Ozdic external link icon
Collocations dictionary.
 
Ozdic
 

 

Book references
 
 
 
New Inside Out Student's Book Upper Intermediate book cover 
New Inside Out Student's Book Upper Intermediate
Unit 1 Impressions  Page 6   Vocabulary
Collocations for describing people
 
Unit 6 Eat  Page 57   Collocations with body parts
 
 
The Great Train Robbery
 
<i>Black Mirror</i>
 
Escape from the canyon