As you study the vocabulary you need for fce, you will soon realise that

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Collocations

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As you study the vocabulary you need for FCE, you will soon realise that 

it’s not enough to study single words. It’s important to know how words 

combine with others to form partnerships, or collocations. This will help 

you to produce language of the level required 

to do well in the examination.

Collocations are important in every part of the examination, but your 

knowledge of them is especially tested in Paper 3 (Use of English).

In Part 2 of this paper you have to use one word to fill in a blank, for 

example:

  

Jimmy made his way to the station exit. This was the first time he 

had been to London (10) 

                             

his own and he was 

feeling a bit scared.

In this exercise you have to think of the word yourself. In Part 1, however, 

you are given a choice: