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Collocations: "Do" verbs meaning perform
5. Give, Do, Hold
Choose from these words four that make strong word associations
with each of the verbs below:
| a cry |
a shout |
a talk |
a speech |
the washing |
the wash |
| the cleaning |
the dishes |
a meeting |
a referendum |
an election |
a debate |
- GIVE
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- DO
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- HOLD
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
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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