Teacher’s

Notes

Topic Collocations – Email and the Internet

Level Upper-Intermediate to Advanced
Time 45 minutes
Aim To revise and extend noun/verb collocations to do with
email and the Internet
Language Verb/noun collocations, e.g. surf the Internet
Materials 1 set of verb cards, cut up, per group
1 game board per group
1 rule sheet per group NEW
1 counter per learner 8th
1 dice per group Edition
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 8th Edition, especially
the ‘Email and the Internet’ Topic Collocations box on page 494.

TASK 1  Introduction/warmer  (10 minutes)

Write up the following nouns on the board:
a website a blog spam a web browser
an email a firewall a virus the Internet
Ask the class to think of verbs that often go with each noun, and do the first one
with them as an example, for example, you can create/design/launch/visit/check/
update a website. Allow the learners a few minutes to do the same for the other
nouns, either as pair work or on their own. Learners can check the meanings of the
words in the dictionary if necessary. Have a short feedback session to check learners’
answers, and write any unfamiliar vocabulary items on the board.

TASK 2  Collocations game  (30 minutes)

1 Divide the class into groups of 3 or 4.
2 Give each group a set of verb cards, a game board and a dice. Give each learner in
the group a counter.
3 Explain the game, and give each group a copy of the rule sheet.
4 Start play and monitor. Refer, or direct learners, to the Topic Collocation box as
necessary. Topic Collocation boxes in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 8th
Edition list many of the most frequently encountered collocations in a particular
field or topic. Of course other collocations are possible, and these should be allowed
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Grammar as long as they are reasonably typical. ‘I searched my inbox’ is okay.
‘I visited my inbox’ is grammatically possible but probably too unusual to allow.
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5 Groups that finish early can use the collocations box to make a few survey
questions to ask the rest of the class, for example, ‘How many hours a week do
you spend surfing the Internet?’, or ‘What should you do if you detect a virus on
your computer?’ If time allows, hold a brief feedback session when everybody has
finished in order to answer these questions together.

Extension activity
Ask learners, in pairs or individually, to create a short exercise to revise the collocations,
for example, matching sentence halves such as:

The program detected a virus on my computer.

How often do you check your email?
You can download a podcast of the show.
They exchanged email addresses.

Ask learners to swap their exercises with another pair for completion.

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Topic Collocations – Email and the Internet

Collocations game – Rules
To start:
Shuffle the verb cards and deal them out. Each person in the group should have the
same number of cards. Everybody begins at the ‘start’ square.
To move forwards:
Take it in turns to throw the dice, and move forwards the same number of squares to
a square with a noun (or a ‘?’) on it.
To make a collocation:
Look at your verb cards and see if you have a verb that goes with the noun on the
square. If you have a verb that goes with the noun, make a sentence containing the
collocation. For example, if you land on the ‘an email’ square and one of your verb
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Collocations game – Verb Cards

visit check design

launch start write

read update block

use configure open

close delete accept

enable receive get

send install forward

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FINISH
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internet website

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attachment

your
? your
spam
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firewall
email inbox

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podcast

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browser cookies

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server
a file

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a blog
software
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