Grade XI

14.05
 Lesson Objectives:

Collocati ons
 What are collocations?
• a combination of two or more words
• “She’s got yellow hair”.
• “She’s got blond hair”.
 Collocations
adjective + noun blond hair
verb + noun arouse someone’s interest
adverb + adjective fundamentally different
adverb + verb flatly contradict
noun + noun a team of experts, words of
wisdom
 Why learn collocations?
• use words accurately

• sound natural, like fluent user

• exploit wider range of language

 აღძრა ვინმეს
arouse rain
ინტერესი
words different სიტყვები
ბრძნული

come up with of შეთავაზება

experts
აშკარად
flatly of wisdom
ეწინააღმდეგებოდეს
არსებითად
fundamentally someone’s interest
განსხვავებული
heavy ძლიერი წვიმა
a suggestion

a team contradict ჯგუფი

ექსპერტთა
 Relationships: Friendship

to strike up a friendship – to start a friendship

Nathan struck up a friendship with a girl he met on holiday.

 Relationships: Friendship

to form/develop friendship = NOT make a friendship

Audrey formed a lasting friendship with the boy she sat next to at primary school.
 Relationships: Friendship

cement/spoil a friendship cement = strengthen

spoil = have a bad effect on
Spending several weeks on holiday together has cemented their friendship.
 Relationships: Friendship

close/special/mutual friends mutual friends = friends

that you share with someone else

My husband and I had a lot of mutual friends.

 Relationships: Friendship

a casual acquaintance = someone you know a little

I don’t know Santiago well. We’re just casual acquaintances.

 Relationships: Friendship

keep in contact/touch opposite = lose contact/touch

We must keep in contact when the course ends.

 Relationships: more than just good friends

1. love that is total and does not change regardless of what you or the object of your love does.
2. having a relationship with someone outside marriage.
Homework:
• Learn the collocations

• Do exercises.