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 teachers 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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In this worksheet, students can practice their knowledge of proper and strong collocations through a series of exercises focused on Use of English Part 4 for CAE and/or CPE candidates. Students mu ...
35 questions to practice vocabulary and concepts related to marketing and sales. Wide range of questions and activities including: giving opinion, providing data, reading and summarising; web link ...
Worksheet on cat-idioms and commonly used expressions. The first page suggests phrases definitions, the second - picture practice and intresting facts about cats and the third - phrases in use (di ...
This is a worksheet I made to revise tourism-related vocabulary for a student at an advanced level. It was created as a test for a chapter of a certain book so it may be a bit specific, but it sti ...
Money as a conversation or writing topic usually arises student's interest. This .doc file provides 83 questions on income, spending habits, bank accounts, financial difficulties. The questions mu ...
This is a worksheet for an episode of Anglophenia on Youtube, regarding British colloquial expressions and their meaning. Students have to complete a table were they have the expression and have t ...
A matching game aimed at learning and revising collocations with take, have, waste and spend. Levels: intermediate and above. All four skills are covered: writing, reading, speaking and liste ...
Practice interesting expressions related to appearance and help your students improve their vocabulary. The text has been taken from a book, and I turned it into an activity. It is great for eleme ...
This is an FCE-like activity. The purpose of this sheet is to check some collocations within the context of causative structures. This task consists of a text in which there are 12 gaps (plus one ...
Firstly the most common adverb collocations are given through example sentences. Students can have an idea about what kind of collocations are possible in English. What I like the best about this ...
This worksheet contains the words that are commonly used in combination with clothes. That way it's easier for the students to memorize vocabulary and they learn in which common combination the wo ...
My students often say "I was looking at the TV" or "I don't watch", so I made this worksheet to help explain the differences. First it's a small-group activity where they tick which phrase they th ...
It is a PowerPoint presentation of the difference between the use of 'do' and 'make'. It has got a brief explanation, some contrasting ideas and lots of expressions which use 'do' and 'make'. Init ...
This worksheet is aimed at Croatian pupils and their EFL teachers to help them save their time. I find that recommended tests to go with Project are very demanding for my pupils, and I always wast ...
These flashcards provide a more practical way to learn expressions which go with 'make' or 'do' with translations seen in Portuguese. Print as side to of Part 1, where pictures are shown to illust ...
These flashcards provide a more practical way to learn expressions which go with 'make' or 'do'. Pictures are shown to illustrate these expressions and give a visual aid to memorization. Paired wi ...
This is a vocabulary exercise for the law enforcement workplace. It presents word families ,multiple meaning and collocations of one word " arrest". The activities involve dictionary use, creatio ...
Choose the most appropriate word for the context and try to explain why you chose it. This worksheet can be used in pair work or small groups. In small groups it would be best to first go through ...
I created this activity to give some comic relief to my advanced business classes. I love this movie and I refer to it all the time when students complain about the trials and tribulations of offi ...
An exercise or test for students of upper-intermediate or advanced level to work out missing prepositions on the basis of the sentence context and preliminary knowledge of phrasal verbs and prepos ...
The idea of this worksheet is to improve language skills when it comes to sentence transformation. This exercise may be useful for those preparing to sit for international exams such as PET, TOEF ...
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