English Collocations in Use

1. English Collocations in Use Chapter 31-40 유경미

2. The explanation of basic terms • Words : Awordisasingleunitoflanguagethatcanberepresentedin writingorspeech. In English, awordhasaspaceoneithersideofitwhenitiswritten. • Lexis : Inlinguistics, thewordsof alanguagecanbereferred toasthelexisofthatlanguage. • Lexicon : Thelexiconof aparticularsubjectisall thetermsassociated withit. Thelexiconof apersonorgroupisall thewordstheycommonlyuse. • Vocabulary : Yourvocabularyisthetotalnumberofwordsyou knowinaparticularlanguage • Lexical approach : The basic concept on which this approach rests is the idea that an important part of learning a language consists of being able to understand and produce lexical phrases as chunks. Students are thought to be able to perceive patterns of language (grammar) as well as have meaningful set uses of words at their disposal when they are taught in this way

3. Lexical Chunks : A lexical chunk is a group of words that are commonly found together. Lexical chunks include collocations but these usually just involve content words, not grammar. • Corpus :Acorpusisalargecollectionofwrittenorspokentextsthat isusedforlanguageresearch. • Concordance A concordance is a list of the words in a text or group of texts, with information about where in the text each word occurs and how often it occurs • Lexicography : Lexicographyistheactivityorprofessionofwritingdictionaries.

4. 31. Business

5. Choose the correct collocation Our company sets a high ( value/ price/cost ) on after-sales service. 2. Competition to (earn/ win / achieve) the contract was stiff. 3. You need a wide range of skills in order to (work/run/go) a successful business. 4. It is my job to (weigh/ balance / add) the budget. 5. The annual (takeover/ overtake / turnover/ overturn) of our company is growing rapidly.

6. 32.Academic writing 1

7. Match the words in the box on the left with the words that they collocate with on the right.

8. 33.Academic writing 2

9. Look at page 70 and complete these collocations. hold assess draw convincingly draw lay lend profoundly forward draw

10. 34. Laws and punishments

11. Put these events in a crime story in order. • A number of witnesses appear in court. • Bill Sikes goes on trial. • Bill Sikes is found guilty. • Bill Sikes is severely punished. • Bill Sikes robs a bank. • The jury reaches its verdict • The police carry out an investigation. e – g – b – a – f – c – d

12. 35. Crime

13. Find the correct headlines from a local newspaper with the first line of the story. • JUVENILE CRIME RISING • POLICE TARGET VEHICLE THEFT • DRUG ABUSE SCANDAL • CRIME FIGURES OUT TODAY 3

14. 36. News

15. Complete the crossword plan • Across 1. The parties could not agree and the talks broke…….. 4. The plan got the …..–ahead Yesterday. 6. We must keep a…..watch on the dollar-euro exchange rate. 7. Big news stories do this. daw n fli g o it m cl o s e bre a k Down 2. The Minister outlined …… for a new university funding system. 3. I don’t really read the news paper, I usually just ………through it. 5. There was an interesting news …….. in the local paper yesterday.

16. 37. Money

17. Read these remarks by different people, then answer the questions • Briony : I sent 100 euros to the Children’s Fund for the Developing World. • Philip : I won 100,000 dollars on the lottery and bought stupid , useless things. I have almost nothing left now. • Anthony : I went to into the bank with 1,000 euros and came out with the equivalent in Australian dollars. • Marianne : The garden was in a terrible mess after the storm. I paid a gardener a lot of money to sort it out but he didn’t seem to make it any better. • Catherine : I put 5,000 euros in an account which gives 4% interest. 1. Who throw money at something? 2. Who saved money? 3. Who donated money? 4. Who squandered(wasted) money? 5. Who changed money? Marianne Catherine Briony Philip Anthony

18. 38. War and peace

19. Rewrite the sentences, replacing the words in brackets with collocations • Forces sent in to (make the peace continue) in the troubled region of Phrasalia had to (turn back) after they came ( within the firing distance) of rebel artillery. • The Sornak Republic today (officially started that it was at war) against Hobrania. • Armed troops were sent in to (bring order again) after the riots and violence of last week. keep the peace withdraw/retreat within firing range declared war restore order

20. 39. Global problems

21. Complete the collocations seekers 1. a rise in the number of asylum …………………. 2. to deplete the ozone ……………. 3. bad social conditions ……………… crime 4. increasing amounts of greenhouse ……………….. 5. a golden ……………… to combat poverty 6. people who ………………rough 7. a massive ………….. toll 8. to be in desperate …………………… 9. to …………… people out of poverty 10. below the poverty ………….. layer breed gases opportunity sleep death need lift line

22. 40. Time

23. Correct the collocation errors in these sentences • I was hoping to finish mu dissertation last year but I ran off time. • It’s hard work learning a language but I’m sure you’ll find it’s worth the while. • Les spends all this time at the office-he’s there from dusk till dawn. • As a teacher I often wonder what the future has for my pupils • Did you spend a good time on holiday? • I didn’t have time for doing the ironing last night. ….ran out of time. ….worth your while. …. from dawn to dust. … what the future holds…… have a good time I didn’t have time to do the ironing……