ICT 4 ELT Portals

Collocations

Compiled and annotated by
Mgr. Vladimíra Koreňová,
ZŠ Petřiny-jih,
Praha 6.

These webpages contain almost everything about collocations for upper-intermediate and advanced students and their teachers.

• Collocation quizzes

  http://esl.about.com/b/a/038685.htm

  This website contains a series of collocation quizzes and some other links to practice the English grammar, on-line tests, lesson plans (not always related to the collocations).

• Collocations – ESLFlow

  http://www.eslflow.com/collocationsandphrasalvebs.html

  We can find here many tests, quizzes and exercises, printable worksheets and advice for teachers.

• Verbage

  http://www.oceansiderevolution.com/verbage/

  Explanation of the types of collocations, list of collocations in alphabetical order (Noun-Verb, Verb-Noun), collocation links.

• Edict

  http://www.edict.com.hk/VLC/collocation/

  Here you will find collocations with common verbs and common collocations with prepositions.

• Cleanfun

  http://cleanfun.cz/efl/cc/ah5101.htm

  This web page consists of exercises on collocation of prepositions with other words. The page is made by a college teacher and for his personal use but it can be useful for other teachers as well.

• Bussiness Collocations

  http://www.better-english.com/strongcoll.htm

  There are fifteen different tests of collocations connected with the business English. You can also find some other helpful materials for teaching business English.

• School Collocation

  http://www.english-online.cz/testy2.php?id=34

  Lovely test, also possible to print.

• Personal Adult Learning Centre

  http://palc.sd40.bc.ca/palc/feature/0402/collocations.htm

  Some useful collocations, not so many but with examples and final test.

• Useful Collocations

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/studyguides/pdfs/learningguide.pdf #search=%22funny%20english%20collocation%22

  A PDF document will open to you, give searching for a new word in a text (collocations) and a page of useful collocations will open for you.

• Useful Collocations

  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7033/

  This page presents either the theoretical base of collocations, useful links for teaching or sample pages (e.g. collocations with water, exist, small…. It also includes tests.

• Thomas' Page

  http://www.fi.muni.cz/~thomas/collocation/

  This page is full of useful information about the topic, includes many links too.

• Book of Cliches

  http://utopia.knoware.nl/%7Esybev/cliche/index.shtml

  This website lists the most frequent clichés used on different occasions.