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Vocabulary-Building Strategies
(Unit 1, Page 6: Vocabulary; Use after Exercise C)

USING COLLOCATIONS
When you learn a new vocabulary item, look carefully at collocations (words which are
typically used together). It’s useful to learn each collocation as one unit. In cases where a
word has different collocations, it’s important to differentiate between all collocations.
Practice. Complete each statement with the most appropriate preposition. Some statements
may have more than one possible answer.

apply by
be accepted for
decide in
enroll into
sign up on
switch to
take up

1. Tom planned to enroll __________

in an engineering program.
2. Have you applied __________
to graduate school yet?
for
3. Before applying __________ a job, be sure to do research on the position and the company.
4. Amy was very upset. She just learned that she had been rejected __________
by the Brooklyn
Academy.
5. I heard that yoga is really good for you. I’ve just signed up __________
for a beginner yoga
class.
6. Lisa hasn’t decided __________
on a career yet. She wants to explore more possibilities.
7. John was very excited that he had been accepted __________
to the Queens University.
8. Beverly started out in psychology but soon switched __________
to political science.
9. Peter recently took __________
up photography as a hobby.

Idea. Pay attention to collocations with vocabulary in later units.

Summit 2, Third Edition Unit 1

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