Презентация к уроку "Learning about collocations"

Collocations in use

What is a collocation

• Collocation is a group of words that are often used together. Types of collocations are listed below

Types of collocations

Exercise 1

• Make a table of three columns. The first one name “compound”, the second – “collocation”, the third – “idiom”. Something like

Compound

LIVE MUSIC

idiom

CHECKPOINT

Valid passport

A storm in a cup of tea

Teapot

Pull somebody’s leg

Heavy snow

Bitterly disappointed

Exercise 1

• Divide words from the list into 3 categories:
• Make a mistake
• A storm in a cup of tea
• Live music
• Checkpoint
• Key ring
• Pull somebody’s leg
• Heavy snow
• Valid passport
• Teapot
• Bitterly disappointed

Exercise 2. Underline collocations

Break a leg!

• В смысле, удачи!

Practical task

• Here is an English folk song of the 17 th century. It tells a story about sea robber. Find idioms and collocations in the text

Over the hills and far away

• They came for him once winter’s night
• Arrested he was bound
• They said there’d been a robbery
• His pistol had been found
• They marched him to the station house
• He waited till the dawn

Over the hills and far away

• And as they led him to the dock, he knew that he'd been wronged. "You stand accused of robbery, " he heard the bailiff say. He knew without an alibi, tomorrow's light

would mourn his freedom.

Over the hills and far away

• Over the hills and far away, for ten long years he'll count the days. Over the mountains and the seas, a prisoner's life for him there'll be.

Over the hills and far away

• He knew that it would cost him dear, but yet he dare not say. Just where he'd been that fateful night, a secret it must stay.

Over the hills and far away

• He had to fight back tears of rage. His heart beat like a drum. For with the wife of his best friend, he spent his final night…