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Since collocations can be challenging to create practice activities for, consider using some of the free, printable worksheets available in this section. There are 70 worksheets currently listed with more being added regularly. This collocations worksheet is for intermediate and upper-intermediate business students and comes with great teacher’s notes to help you use the material effectively in class. It focuses on verb collocations with “meeting” and utilizes some excellent business English phrases. If your students are not ready for this activity consider using another worksheet and feel free to download anything that looks interesting. You can always view the whole worksheet before deciding whether or not you want to use it in class.
Collocations are commonly used word pairings or phrases and as such are important for your students to understand. While the above example is for rather advanced students, you can include this topic in pre-intermediate classes too. Here is an excellent worksheet that students can use to practice pairing do, play, and have with appropriate nouns. Students do not need to have collocations explained to them. It is more important to focus on using words correctly than on specific rules. By completing activities like this one, even beginner students can feel confident using collocations correctly.

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What Is Collocation?
Within the area of corpus linguistics, collocation defines a sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. The term is often used in the same sense as linguistic government. Collocation defines restrictions on how words can be used together, for example, which prepositions are used with ("governed by") particular verbs, or which verbs and nouns are typically used together. An example of this (from Michael Halliday) is the collocation strong tea. While the same meaning could be conveyed through the roughly equivalent powerful tea, the fact is that tea is thought of being strong rather than powerful. A similar observation holds for powerful computers, which is preferred over strong computers. Collocations are examples of lexical units. Collocations should not be confused with idioms although both are similar in that there is a degree of meaning present in the collocation or idiom that is not entirely compositional.
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Days of the Week: Monday

Days of the Week: Monday

BusyTeacher Contributor
  This easy single-page resource practices the first day of the week: Monday.
1 Views 3,419 Beg
The changing face of tourism

The changing face of tourism

Anastasiia
  The worksheet focuses on tourism and traveling habits. Students find out what nations travel most often and learn about popular destinations for international tourists. The activity help ...
1 Views 11,215 Pre-IntInt
QUANTUM COMPUTING. PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES

QUANTUM COMPUTING. PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES

Anastasiia
  This listening activity introduces the vocabulary of IT and computing. The audio presents the basic quantum computing concepts together with the possible prospects and challenges of thei ...
1 Views 5,683 Adv
Swan Song by Dua Lipa

Swan Song by Dua Lipa

BusyTeacher Contributor
  Students listen to the video of Swan Song by Dua Lipa, work on their listening skills and examine the importance of speaking their minds. This worksheet includes a variety of activities ...
1 Views 20,548 ElemPre-Int
Equal Pay

Equal Pay

Guilherme G Tidon
  This worksheet uses a video from elllo.org to discuss the issue of equal pay between men and women in France. There is some vocabulary work and functions to make suggestions. You can use ...
1 Views 8,232 IntAdv
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Who decides what art means? Part 2

Who decides what art means? Part 2

Anastasiia
•Collocations,
  The worksheet helps students to develop listening comprehension. It includes pronunciation focus, gap-filling and multiple choice assignments based on the short videos. Students think ab ...
1 Views 3,695 Pre-IntInt
Who decides what art really means?

Who decides what art really means?

Anastasiia
  This worksheet helps to develop students’ listening skills and personal impressions. It introduces the vocabulary of art and art criticism. The assignment contains tasks such as li ...
1 Views 4,882 Pre-IntInt
Songs and music in the classroom

Songs and music in the classroom

Laura Bindean
  Music is great way to teach vocabulary, boost creativity and learn English in a fun and entertaining way. This worksheet is suitable for teacher development and contains activities and i ...
1 Views 8,308 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Who Decides What Art Really Means? Listening & Speaking Activity Part 2

Who Decides What Art Really Means? Listening & Speaking Activity Part 2

Anastasiia
This is the second part of the listening comprehension activity, Who Decides What Art Means? Part of the worksheet focuses on listening and speaking skills. It introduces the vocabulary of art an ...
1 Views 7,643 Pre-IntInt
Who decides what art means? Listening Comprehension (Part 1)

Who decides what art means? Listening Comprehension (Part 1)

Anastasiia
•Collocations,
This worksheet helps students to develop listening comprehension. It includes pronunciation focus, gap-filling and multiple choice assignments based on the short videos. The students will think a ...
1 Views 9,318 Pre-IntInt
Where Do Superstitions Come From?

Where Do Superstitions Come From?

Anastasiia
The worksheet focuses on the topic of superstitions and their origins. It is based on the video that illustrated the beliefs and coincidences at heart of the most common superstitions. Tasks incl ...
1 Views 9,725 Pre-IntInt
History - Changing Map of Central Europe

History - Changing Map of Central Europe

Anastasiia
The worksheet is based on the video that describes the rise and fall of countries in central Europe before, during, and after World War II. The tasks include pronunciation focus on the consonant ...
1 Views 8,714 Pre-IntInt
New Words from 2019 in the Oxford English Dictionary - Reading Comprehension and Quiz

New Words from 2019 in the Oxford English Dictionary - Reading Comprehension and Quiz

Petra
This is a newspaper article about the new words added to the Oxford English Dictionary in October 2019. There is a multiple choice and fill-in quiz after the reading. Topics: Star Wars, politic ...
1 Views 17,084 IntAdv
Hanging Out: Free-Time Activities

Hanging Out: Free-Time Activities

Guilherme G Tidon
In this listening activity, students will hear 4 speakers describing where and with whom they usually hang out. After matching the activities to the speakers, students will review some collocatio ...
1 Views 18,235 Elem
Booking Appointments Worksheet

Booking Appointments Worksheet

Guilherme G Tidon
In this quick exercise, learners will complete the gaps of a phone conversation to book a doctor's appointment with the phrases "I would like to book", "I can't make it", "That works for me", "Ca ...
1 Views 20,629 Pre-IntInt
Christmas Episode of Modern Family (Season 1 Episode 10)

Christmas Episode of Modern Family (Season 1 Episode 10)

Elena Taranova
•, Collocations, ,
A good episode to show your students Christmas traditions and learn about family related topics. The handout consists of True-False tasks, questions for discussion and lists of new phrases. The le ...
1 Views 21,485 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Planning a Night Out - Collocations and Activity

Planning a Night Out - Collocations and Activity

Tom Leventhall
•Collocations,
In this activity, students begin by completing some collocations associated with free time activities. From there, in pairs or in groups, they use the target vocabulary to plan a fun evening out. ...
1 Views 13,869 Pre-IntInt
Song (Collocations) Worksheet: Someone Like You

Song (Collocations) Worksheet: Someone Like You

Virginia O F Silva
This worksheet is a good tool for working on collocations. Before listening to the song, students have to complete the gaps of the lyrics with the words provided. There are two other exercises, th ...
1 Views 27,994 IntAdvExam
Garden Activities Collection

Garden Activities Collection

Tom Leventhall
•, Collocations,
It's Spring! What better time to do some garden vocabulary with your students. File contains a number of garden-based activities: idioms, collocations match, discussion questions, and design acti ...
2 Views 10,290 IntAdv
Noun + Noun Collocations: Food

Noun + Noun Collocations: Food

Ruth Pardiñas
•, Collocations,
This worksheet can be used to practise 'noun + noun' collocations and help students understand the importance of word order in this kind of structure using some common food vocabulary. The words c ...
4 Views 39,627 All
Using For and Since (Including Exceptions)

Using For and Since (Including Exceptions)

Bonny Buckley
Do you cringe when you hear students misuse "for" and "since" when they are speaking? This is one page of examples and exceptions with a description of how to use these important everyday words. Y ...
7 Views 21,648 IntAdv
Adjectives

Adjectives

Khatuna Tavartkiladze
•, Collocations
Adjectives make stories more exciting. Students are asked to add adjectives and some more interesting information to make the story more exciting. At the same time students are introduced to adjec ...
8 Views 31,221 Pre-IntIntAdv
Business Proverbs

Business Proverbs

Natalia Serdyukova
This PPP can be used for the course of Business English or in a lesson dealing with entrepreneurship. The presentation contains some proverbs which are split up. At first the students can see the ...
4 Views 35,765 Int
Money Idioms

Money Idioms

Natalia Serdyukova
•Collocations, , ,
This presentation can be used to help learn some idiomatic expressions dealing with money and expense matters. It contains 15 phrases with definitions illustrated with pictures. It is possible to ...
13 Views 38,326 Pre-Int
Make or Do

Make or Do

Dorota Grajewska
• » Collocations
Make or do lesson for pre-intermediate or intermediate students. The first page: talk about the photos and try to make the students discover the rule. Page two - the students look for the right co ...
13 Views 14,146 Pre-IntInt

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