Exer.

cises

1.1 Read A and B and answer these questions.

1 What is a collocacion?
2 Which of chese words does fast collocace wich: car, food, glance, meal?
3 Which of che e are compounds: computer, narrow-minded, teapot, ancient monument,
car park?
4 What do we call expressions like pass the buck and be over the moon?
1.2 Make ten collocarions from the words in the box.

an effort ancient bitterly make breakfast cold dark

engine forbidden mistakes have make meal monument
pitch powerful strictly substantial TV watch

1.3 Are these statements about collocations true or false?

1 Learning collocatio n will make your Engli h sound more natura l.
2 Learning collocacions will help you to express your elf in a variecy of ways.
3 Learning collocations wi ll help you to write bener English.
4 Using collocations properly will get you bener marks in exam .
5 You will not be under tood unless you u e collocations properly.
1.4 Put the expressions from the box into the correct category in the table below.

make a mistake a storm in a tea cup live music checkpoint key ring
pull somebody's leg heavy snow valid passport teapot bitterly disappointed

compound collocation idiom

1.S Underline the collocations in this text.

When 1 left university 1. made a decision to take upa

profession in which 1could be creative. 1 could play the
guitar, but l'd never written any songs. Nonetheless 1
decided to become a singer-songwriter. 1 made some
recordings but 1 had a rather heavy cold so they didn't
sound good. 1 made some more, and sent them to a
record company and waited for them to reply.
So, while 1was waiting to become famous. 1gota job
in a fast-food restaurant. That was five years ago.
l'm still doing the same job.

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