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

 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.