Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 188 p
Collocations are word combinations that frequently appear together. This book will help you master collocations, which will make your English sound more natural and fluent.
60 easy-to-use two-page units: collocations are presented and explained on left-hand pages with a range of practice exercises on right-hand pages.
Presents and explains approximately 1,500 collocations in typical contexts using short texts, dialogues, tables and charts.
Contains a comprehensive answer key and full index for easy reference.
Highlights register to help students choose the appropriate language for particular situations.
Informed by the Cambridge International Corpus to ensure that the most frequently used collocations are presented.
Contents:Introducing collocations
Strong, fixed and weak collocations
Grammatical categories of collocation
Using your dictionary and other resources
Finding and working on collocations in texts
Register
Metaphor
Intensifying and softening adverbs
Make and verbs that mean make
Communicating
Collocations with phrasal verbs
Working life
New employment
Thoughts and ideas
Business reports
Customer services
Student life
Writing essays, assignments and reports
Social life
Talking
News
Current affairs
Festivals and celebrations
Advertisements and fashion
Traffic and driving
Travel and adventure
Sport
Plans and decisions
Film and book reviews
Regulations and authority
The environment
Town and country life
Personal finance
The economy
Social issues
Science and technology
Health and medicine
Criminal justice
War and peace
Friendship
Youth and age
Celebrities and heroes
Criticising people
References
Appearance and personality
Time and space
Sound
Making things easier
Difficulty
Quantity and size
Change
Stopping and starting
Cause and effect
Describing groups and amounts
Comparing and contrasting
Making an effort
Social English
Discussing issues
Negative situations and feelings
Positive situations and feelings
The book has 60 two-page units. The left-hand page presents the collocations that are focused on in the unit. You will usually find examples of collocations in typical contexts with, where appropriate, any special notes about their meaning and their usage. The right-hand page checks that you have understood the information on the left-hand page by giving you a series of exercises that practise the material just presented.
The units are organised into different sections. First we start with important information relating to learning about collocations in general. Then there is a section focusing on different types of collocation. The rest of the book deals with collocations that relate to particular topics such as Student life and Film and book reviews, concepts such as Sound or Difficulty and functions such as Cause and effect or Comparing and contrasting.
The book has a key to all the exercises and an index which lists all the collocations we deal with, and indicates the units where they can be found.