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Collocations: "Do" verbs meaning perform
1. Give, Make, Take:
Choose from these words four that make strong word associations
with each of the verbs below:
| help |
a risk |
support |
a chance |
a decision |
birth |
| lunch |
a drink |
action |
protection |
dinner |
a bath |
- GIVE
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- MAKE
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- TAKE
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
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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