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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This worksheet could be used as a test or just as an ordinary practice worksheet on such idioms and phrases as: say what's on your mind; stop beating about the bush; take on board; go bankrupt; ha ...
The worksheet have students practicing the four linguistic skills while using collocations with the verbs "do" and "make". The students are given a hand out with instructions and the use of some s ...
If you watch movies with your students this worksheet might be useful. I combined subtitles from 'what women want' into the text and highlighted interesting words and expressions. You can describ ...
Daily Phrases 1 I have prepared this paper in order to teach my beloved student significant daily expressions which are definitely helpful for our daily life. This paper contains ten daily express ...
It's a nice listening worksheet with a very funny song - "dumb ways to die". It may be useful for Elementary - Intermediate students. It may be used as a relaxing warm-up to the topic about danger ...
This workheet consists of 20 pictures and 20 sentences with gaps all of them involving collocations with do or make. The students have to fill in the gaps with the correct form of do or make. Afte ...
Collocations are a big challenge for many of us as English learners. That's why I have decided to create tasks dealing with prepositions and collocations in real contexts. The texts I have used ar ...
Print this pdf file and hand one per student. The purpose of this file is to use in the very first class so students get familiar with the use of some expressions in the class. You can start by cu ...
A worksheet to practice adjective - noun collocations. Make a copy of the worksheet for each pair/group of students, then cut out the individual cards. Students read the nouns and adjectives and c ...
Especially designed for Spanish speakers so that they understand the difference between make and do in English. Variety of vocabulary, you may need to go through a few words with students. I desi ...
This is a song meant for Elementary students who have already seen "going to Future". Students should read the song together with their teachers before starting to work on the song for them to und ...
Listening activities for "Do you remember" by Jack Johnson. Two ex.: a) fill in the blanks and b) answer T or F. There´s no target tense, students complete with the given words. However you ...
This worksheet deals with the topic "Crisis Management." It was created as an extra resource for Unit 11 of the Market Leader Upper-Intermediate. The authentic article tells about the Great East J ...
This is a fun practice worksheet for the whole episode.I get my students to match the words first with their meanings in the first activity before watching the episode. After there are a matching ...
The famous song of Frank Sinatra with a word list (vocabulary) and 2 activities:
1. students have to open the brackets to put the verbs into present perfect.
2. the students have to put verbs fr ...
This worksheet contains some American idioms that can be used for students in their conversation and their writing. It is for personal enrichment of vocabulary where the students have to match the ...
This song is a great opportunity to talk about physical appearance with your students. In this worksheet students will have a chance to activate their schemata by having a pre-activity that elicit ...
Collocations are a big challenge for many of us as English learners. That's why I have decided to create tasks dealing with prepositions and collocations in real contexts. The texts I have used ar ...
The ws consists of 27 pictures and two columns with words. The studnets have to join the words in both columns to form one-word compound words. Then they have to put the name under the correct pic ...
This song worksheet is aimed at (pre-)intermediate students. The first activity (matching) contains several useful and common idiomatic expressions that students at this level should know. In the ...
This is a very useful worksheet for those who teach or learn collocations. It consists of four exercises on two pages: a matching exercise, opposites, synonyms and a gap-filling exercise. It can b ...
Taught this song in conjunction with a unit about Native Americans and the wild west. Short synonym matching included. Students had fun trying to sing along. Prior to teaching the song students le ...
Resident Evil is a very interesting film about corporate manipulation. It appeals to teens and adults, because it's full of action and plot. I used this set of worksheets to deal with the topic of ...
Exercises for Elementary and Pre-Intermediate Levels of Business English courses. Perfect for practicing word formation, business collocations and correct prepositions, frequently used in everyday ...
This worksheet is called 'Hoops and Yoyo: Work Space Terminology' and it was generously presented by Hallmark. The 11-page printout is also available at Hallmark's website, and, as seen from the t ...
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