Using collocation
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I a) healthy
b) expensive
+ lifestyle
2 a) relaxed
b) negative
+ attitude
3 a) disruptive b) anti-social
+ behaviour
KEY: I a) relaxed b) expensive 2 a) healthy b) negative 3 a) disruptive b) anti-social
I make
+
c) an influence - have an influence
2 save
+
b) habits - break habits
3 keep
+
a) attention - pay attention
4 come
+
c) to a schedule - keep to a schedule
5 go
+
a) cooking - do the cooking
6 take
+
b) a fine - pay a fine
7 First of all, the most important thing for people nowadays is time. They don’t want to actually waste their time so the public
transport should be very quick and run without any delays. I mean it’s a real problem for me as a business man when trains
don’t run on time. Public transport should also be easy to access. The other point is expenses. I feel it should be cheap because
if we are expected to use it, then it should be cheap. Maybe governments should pay some kind of subsidy to reduce the
charges for the general public.
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Does she use collocations? No
2 Is her answer easy to follow? Yes
3 Does her English sound natural? No
4 Would this candidate get a good mark for fluency? She would get a satisfactory mark because she can keep
going, but she does not use a variety of discourse markers. She also uses discourse markers in an unnatural way -
Personally, I believe, as time passes. She has memorized discourse markers, but not learnt how to use them
appropriately..
5 Would this candidate get a good mark for vocabulary? No. She would get a higher mark if she used collocations
accurately and appropriately.
Further Practice: Parts 1,2 and 3
2 Films:
1. Sentence starters: I guess ..../ It’s about.../ It reminds me of... / And I think that’s very important to people /
As far as I’m concerned
2. Likes/Dislikes: And one of the reasons I like.../1 enjoy listening to.
4 Song: Collocations : coming-of-age song, working-class upbringing, to bring back memories, young love,
rock-and-roll beat, tell a story, inspire people, lightens the load (to make something easier - in this context the speaker means
it makes life easier.)
5 And one of the reasons I Hke this song / is as I said before.../the guitars. / It’s a rock-and-roll beat to the song, /but it’s also a...
/you know, /it’s a coming-of-age song./ It’s about young love./ It reminds me of my working-class upbringing./ It’s about cars
/and the highway/ and young peoples’ dreams/. I think most people enjoy music /for pretty much the same reasons as I do./ Be
cause music or songs / usually tell a story / or they inspire people / or sometimes they bring back memories /... or bring up
dreams that you once had /or dreams that you might still have./ And I think that’s very important / to people./ It kind of lightens
the load./....And it’s...it’s what music is all about /, as far as JVn concerned./
The main stress is mostly on nouns. These nouns carry the focus or ideas of the speaker.
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