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Collocations: "Do" verbs meaning perform
4. Give, Take, Do
Choose from these words four that make strong word associations
with each of the verbs below:
| a seat |
attention |
the housework |
a party |
a break |
a rest |
| the shopping |
a trip |
the ironing |
a concert |
the cooking |
a performance |
- GIVE
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- TAKE
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- DO
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
Use some of the word collocations to write something
about your or somebody else's life.
- ____________________________________________________________
- ____________________________________________________________
- ____________________________________________________________
- ____________________________________________________________
(Note:Idea taken from Michael Lewis, Pedagogical Implications
of the Lexical Approach, p. 261.
Lexical items taken from the Cambridge International Dictionary of
English, p.405)
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