Complete the sentences with appropriate words to make collocations

1. My science teacher always …………. a lot of homework.

2. Don't be afraid to ……….. mistakes. English is a very difficult, irregular language, and even native speakers have trouble sometimes.

3. He's……….. himself the goal/target of making his first million by the time he's 30.

4. The first week of each class I told learners to purchase an A4- sized folder with dividers, because I wanted them to………….. a vocabulary notebook.

5. It is helpful for the student keep a small notepad to ……….new words.

6. Successful teachers ………. achievable goals and develop ways to attain them.

7. Unless students …………… habits of using their minds well in their learning, students are unlikely to develop these habits later in life.

8. After admitting to the program, all students are required to …………. a foreign language course and pass the test in order to be admitted to the next level and to do an internship.

9. A lot of reading can help students ………….. vocabulary through contextual grasp the precise use of vocabulary and syntax knowledge.

10. As we all know, when a student doesn’t practice regularly, progress is nearly impossible. Daily practice is the best way to ensure progress. And when students are …………….. progress the whole process is so much more enjoyable: students are motivated to learn, and the teacher is happy!

Prepositions

1. Even experienced doctors make mistakes ……………. time to time.

2. She's weak …………..mathematics, and this affects her physics results as well.

3. Can you translate this ………………French?

4. I feel much more confident……………… myself and my abilities these days.

5. Julia soon got bored……………… lying on the beach.

6. Be quiet – let me concentrate ………… my homework.

Phrasals

7. Students should keep a vocabulary notebook in which they ………….down all of the words that they don't know.

8. …………… up words you don't know whenever you encounter them.

9. At the Open Day you will have the opportunity to meet staff and students, ……….out about our degree programmes, visit our teaching laboratories and find out about careers for biological scientists.

10. To……….. up vocabulary more and quickly with sustainability, the best way is not to remember the words brutally but to read extensively and often.

11. You can …………without a carpet but you’ve got to have somewhere to sit.

12. Did you ……………out whether there are any seats left?

13. We’ve ……….across a few problems that need resolving.

14. Although she didn’t mention any names, everyone knew who she was ………..to.

15. When I …………..back on those days I realize I was very unhappy.

16. He has spent the last two years ……………on a book about childcare.

Guess what the following definitions refer to.

1) a written set of questions which you give to a large number of people in order to collect information

2) a spoken or written test of knowledge, especially an important one

3) all the words that someone knows or uses

4) a place on the Internet where you can write messages to other people and receive messages back from them immediately, so that you can have a conversation while you are ONLINE

5) he rules by which words change their forms and are combined into sentences, or the study or use of these rules

6) the correct way of writing a word

7) a piece of writing or a plan that is not yet in its finished form

8) someone who has learned a particular language as their first language, rather than as a foreign language

9) language or words that are used mainly in informal conversations rather than in writing or formal speech

10) something such as a word, phrase, or idea that has been copied from another language, book etc