ee — (CHAPTER OME » TEACHING VOCABULARY LEXICALLY Gi ing good examples 2 Collocates of collocations Principle Many exercises in coursebooks now teach pairs of words as colfocations. This is good, but lesical teachers, aur ait should ideally be to give examples that go Deyoned simple collocatinns, As we sa it Part ‘Ava cllocational pair of words can be seen to have collocates themselves. So if we take the collocation ffcint service, we could ada to it the callocates provide efcien service have an extremely efcient service introduce a more cient service ‘The examples above build on an adjective-noun collocation, Look at these other kinds of eollocations senior staf ‘en crus Bisfaly happy (advorb-adjective) dtrive angerausty (adverb-verb) ise taxes (erb-noun) the econamny grows. (qoun-verb) (adjective-noun) (nous-nown} We can add to these collocations, by thinking about collocates to the left anl right of the collocation retain senior stop senior staff take responsibility for be involved ina serious car crash be fined for driving dangerasy rise aizport axes ‘The government raises taxes ‘he French economy grows fast Once you have thought of your additions, you might ‘urn then into an example sentenee. To make these sound natal, you may hae ty © change the tonse © add to the verb phrases. ‘You might then end up with sentences lke these We retain senior staf well. Wee staging a retin senior sta he frenelt economy has grown dramatically i dhe last ye Practising the principle © Look at the basi collocatious that focus om two-word combinations © Think of we more collocaes for exch collocation, 9 Think o€collocaes that are used on the left and the right of the collocation, © Write x sentence base on each collacational phrase that you come up with © Check your sentencss sound natural in the sense that we when, why and by svhom they might be used —oraska colleague what they think, 1 deep depression 2 coasotire agreement 3 bitten cisappointed 4 fatly retuse 5 take a photo 6 plents grow 7 burst into tears 8 come to torms with Applying the principle Find an exercise based on collocations that you are going, vo teach, Try to think of atleast one collocae for each collocation: (© Some may not have any obvious oF usetul ones, in whic case leave th as they are. # ‘Think about how you could present these on the boned This cou be © by using an infinitive (ey eta senior sal. © asa fully grammaticalised sentence. ‘© ‘Thy to show the students some ofthese collocations and sentences in your lessen. You might do this orally, or by \weiting them on the boar © while the students are doing e © when youre goi 1g.through the answer, (© when you explain a word that the students ask the meaning of You might also write an additional exercise to Foes on {hese other collocates, either for ase inthe same lesion of for use as revision in a later lesen.