Noun Preposition Collocation: Exercises & Activities

Before class:

1) What is collocation? Check it out on the Internet.

2) What different kinds of collocation are there?

3) Read “Noun Preposition Collocation” and try to think how the examples given
differ from your language (for example, you say in Italian, “difficultà a fare
qualcosa,” while in English it is, “difficulty in doing something.”

4) Please do not read “Intro Noun Preposition Collocation” since we will be looking
at this in class.

During class:

5) Let’s do the “Intro Noun Preposition Collocation” together (please don’t read
beforehand).

6) Review the examples of “Noun Preposition Collocation” and discuss the examples
that seem unnatural to students.

7) Study “Noun Preposition Collocation Worksheet” and give examples, especially

for the one that don’t come naturally.