Building up collocations
Well done for completing the previous quiz on collocations!
There is a wide range of collocations in English, and it is unrealistic to try to learn them all. One of the most effective ways to expand your pool of collocations is to discover them using a dictionary.
ozdic.com is a free website where you can learn more collocations. You enter a word and the dictionary will display all the possible collocations.
We previously looked at some collocations with rain, but when we enter this in ozdic.com, we can see that there are many more:
Practice
Let’s use ozdic.com and start building your collocations. For this, go to this Padlet link and complete the exercise. When finished, return to the course and continue looking at other strategies to improve your speaking skills.
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