... box into the correct category in the table below.
to suffer pain to alleviate pain to be racked with pain to cause pain
to complain of pain to ease pain to experience pain to feel pain
to inflict ... pain
to inflict pain to lessen pain to relieve pain to soothe pain pain subsides
making others experience pain the experience of being in pain making pain go away
3.3 Look in a good learner's ...
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Eating and drinking
Talking about types of food
In each of these conversations, useful collocations are in bold.
Tom:
Nelly:
Fran:...
... had no time to
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Houses, flats and rooms
Finding somewhere to live
Look at these notices on a university notice-board. Useful collocations are in bold.
available ... you out to dinner on your birthday. Or would you prefer a meal prepared
at home? I could make dinner for you at my place.
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Eating and drinking
Talking about ... priced. Let's go in.
WARNING
We say international food/cuisine, NOT world wide food/cuisine. A Chinese/
Mexican/French meal is what you eat in a restaurant. When referring in general to the...
... verbs inEnglish which have strong and possibly surprising collocations.
Notice any that you find with, for example, break, fall, run and take.
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Intensifying adverbs ... one day
1 was going crazy.
In June, 1 had a baby, James.
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Exercises
7.1 Use a collocation with make and a noun instead of the underlined words in each of these ... after failing her final exams.
4 Hamid has always dreamt of getting famous.
5 Would you be interested in growing involved in this project?
6 More people have got homeless this year than in any...
...
any interesting collocations that you find there.
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Texture
Adjectives and their opposites for describing textures
adjective + noun
dry hair
dry skin
smooth ... minor often collocate with words relating to problems or points in an argument,
e.g. major/minor difference, major/minor change, major/minor effect, major/minor
difficulty, major/minor point, ... a gasp, a groan.
A person, animal or thing can make a scratching/clicking/rustling/crackling sound.
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41 Sound
Sounds in nature
Look at these extracts from short...
... chess,
darts, cards, dominoes
fishing, skiing, bowling, cycling, skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding, hang-gliding, climbing,
hill walking, sailing, jogging, swimming
You can also say you go to ... be in a winning position
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Academic writing I: giving opinions
Reviewing the work of academics
Look at these extracts from reviews in academic journals.
In ...
Going into business
Interviewer: When did you first go into business?
I set up a small business selling office supplies in 1989, filing systems, office
equipment, that sort of thing. In 1991...
... get)
The standard of living is rising steadily / is improving. (NOT increasing or growing)
Interest in old cars has grown considerably over the last few years. (NOT has increased)
There's ... special interest (rare stamps).
If someone repeatedly does something that annoys you, you can use the expression keeps
asking, keeps interrupting, keeps hitting, etc. This is common in informal ...
(carelessly fast and dangerous]
Slow movement and stopping
It was fascinating to see the winning goal again in slow motion.
We were stuck in slow-moving traffic for an hour on our way to the airport....
... and lovely.
Find a description of the hero or heroine in an English novel or short story. Note down any
interesting collocations that you find there.
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People: ...
from this unit.
Read some English language women's magazines and note down any other interesting family
collocations that you find.
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19.2 Look at B. Correct ... temper7.
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Feelings and emotions
Feeling happy
Look at these messages in cards sent to Brian and Helen on their wedding day. Note the
collocations in bold.
H-ave...
... refuse an invitation/offer.You
deny/reject/refuse something. You deny that something is true.You can also refuse
to do something (in the future) but deny doing something (in the past).
I 20 English ...
share an opinion
enter into an argument
agree to differ
appreciate others' points of view
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Claiming and denying
Making accusations
A government minister ... obey/observe 6 passing/introducing
2 observe/obey 7 introducing/passing
3 break 8 upholding/enforcing
4 respect 9 enforcing/upholding
5 act
34.2 1 The rules apply to all students in the college....
... be used in extra, interesting ways.
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Synonyms and confusable words 2
Verbs connected with gaining, winning and achieving
Note these typical collocations connected ... used in extra, interesting ways.
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12 Metaphor
If someone uses a metaphor, they use a word in a way that is slightly different from its basic
meaning. For example, ... up: (a) love (b) interest (c) violence?
I 2.5 Use a dictionary to find collocations using these words in a metaphorical way.
1 bright 2 warm 3 cold
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I 0 Synonyms...
... get
information about the weather there.)
Make a note of any other useful weather collocations that you find.
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Exercises
16.1 Which of the collocationsin A ... description in an encyclopaedia, tourist brochure or guide book of a city that you know
well or are interested in. Make a note of any interesting collocations that you find there.
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English Collocations ...
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Weather
Talking about the weather
It's great here. Have had unbroken
sunshine ever since we arrived. We're
having a wonderful time - though in the...
... page in your vocabulary notebook for each of the types of collocations listed on the
opposite page.
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2 Finding, recording and learning collocations
Finding collocations ... caused by injury or illness: Her symptoms included
abdominal pain and vomiting, o Are you in (= suffering
from) pain? o She was in constant pain, o These tablets
should help to ease the pain, o ... to avoid dealing with it
oneself. We deal with idioms in detail in the book English Idioms inUsein this series.
Why learn collocations?
Learning collocations is a good idea because they can:...