Express everyday ideas more like a native speaker and improve your fluency in English.
This intermediate course is for students who have a strong grammar foundation, and now want to sound smoother and more natural.
You will learn hundreds of common collocations—combinations of words which frequently appear together—including set phrases and idioms. Moreover, you will learn how to find collocations in the English world around you, which is an important step towards English fluency.
Learn collocations in context, with 60 different topics, including:
- people's character;
- food and drink;
- travel and adventure;
- global problems;
- agreeing; and
- making a choice.
This book is also perfect for preparing for both Cambridge exams and for IELTS, which often test knowledge of collocations.
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Quick guide to the Collocations books
There are a lot of collocations in this book.
Here's how to remember them.
Pick useful or practical collocations
- Don’t treat all collocations as equally useful.
- Let the student choose which to focus on or recommend ones to practice.
- Say a useful pair at least 5 TIMES quickly to create an association between the words.
- Use connected speech: —eg: “it’s highly recommended = — “HAI-li-RE-k’-men-d’d”
Give multiple examples
- After picking your favourites, give a couple of examples and get your student to give a couple too:
- Eg: “highly competitive”
- Teacher: “Getting into Oxford University is highly competitive… Getting bread at my favourite bakery is highly competitive—it always sells out.”
- Student: “[gives two examples]”
- Eg: “highly competitive”