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Animations
Old animations like Tom and Jerry or Roadrunner can be great for this type of exercise.
Mr. Bean
Everybody loves him and YouTube is full of short excerpts that can easily be related to units from a course book.
Textual analysis activities
• Students can analyse texts to heighten their awareness of collocations. Depending on the text, you might ask the students to find, for example, five useful collocations that occur around a certain topic. Or you could give students a list of words or phrases and ask them to find what collocates with them in the text. You could also go further than the text and ask them to find further possible collocations with certain items in the text using a collocation dictionary.
• Make up gap-fills based on authentic texts, particularly deleting verbs from verb + noun collocations.
• Get the students to carry out prediction exercises, using a kind of word association technique. You could reveal a text gradually (using an overhead projector) and get the students to predict the next word or phrase.
• Asking the students to reconstruct the content of a text from a few words only serves to highlight the central importance of collocations as against individual words. (There are software programmes which are good for this but you can also do the activity using an overhead projector: put a dash for each word you want to blank out and a number against each dash. Get the students to suggest words and phrases that are missing and write in the correct answers as they come up.)[9].
Preparation activities
• Ask the students to brainstorm nouns on a particular subject, perhaps for a writing task. Then get them to suggest verbs and adjectives that collocate with those nouns, then adverbs with the verbs, thus building up a number of lexically dense collocational fields.
Speaking activities
• Get the students to do creative drills. For example, devise a 'Find somebody who...' activity for them to practise collocations. For example,