Showing posts with label collocations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collocations. Show all posts

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Christmas collocations quiz - vocab game

This game has eight quizzes related to Christmas.
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  • General Christmas
  • Christmas decorations
  • Chritmas verbs
  • Food and drink
  • Christmas carols
  • The Twelve Days of Christmas
  • Winter activities
  • Wintry idioms

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Wintry idioms

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Practise twenty winter idioms based mainly on the words: cold, ice, snow

There are two sets of ten idioms. Each set starts with a matching exercise, followed by two exercises where you first work out the idiom, and then its meaning. Each set ends with an exercise to put the idioms into practice.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Word corner - just

The adverb just has several meanings, including 'only', 'exactly' and 'a little bit', and is often used with time expressions. Get to know it better with these exercises.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Bits and pieces - some exercises on partitive nouns

We use several words to talk about one bit or part or a large amount of something when using uncountable nouns. These are sometimes called partitive nouns and many of them collocate with certain nouns. test your knowledge with these exercises. (One or two of the examples here are used with countable nouns).