ELT-T Pre-Class Assignment for Collocations: the building blocks of language

Presenter: Jason R. Levine

Directions

Explore answers to the questions below using whatever resources you wish,
including the presenters website: colloandspark.com

Answer the questions on your own. Then, share and compare your answers with
other participants in the Discussion Forum designated for this class.

1. What is a collocation?

2. How would you explain or demonstrate this concept to English language

learners?

3. List several examples of:

verb + noun collocations adjective + noun collocations

noun + noun collocations

4. In English we say take medicine heavy traffic and a pop quiz.

Do these collocations translate naturally into other languages?

5. Find at least one resource on the internet that you think would be useful
for teaching collocations.

6. Watch the ColloTune video You Have It In You by Fluency MC (copy and
paste this link into your browser: http://youtu.be/4Wt5N1BCsL4)

Which collocations from this song would be most important for your
students to know?

7. Watch the ColloTune video Dont You Know by EL-T Funk (copy and
paste this link into your browser: http://youtu.be/3Xfyur6CB7M)

How are collocations used in this song?

2013, Jason R. Levine