Ready for IELTS Unit 5 Part 1-2

Ready for IELTS Unit 5 Part 1-2

The future

Collocations

- some word go well together, some don't, the ones that do, we call collocations

- how to know which words go together? We need to remember them or check in the dictionary.

we can have many kinds of collocations:

- adjective + noun

- adverb + adjective

- adjective/verb + preposition

- verb + noun

- adverb + verb

Let's see how's your collocation intuition

Open Ended

After a careful analysis from the situation we decided to cancel the trip.

Open Ended

Regular exercise can be to benefit for people with asthma.

Open Ended

These results are consistent to the ones we obtained last month.

Open Ended

We need to create for a new design.

Open Ended

I am looking up the definition from this word.

Open Ended

We should use products that are environmentally good.

Complete the sentences with a correct prepositions.

What are prepositions?

Short words that link words with each other (there are 150 of them), for example: about, for, in, on, to, with, of, at, over etc.

Prepositional phrases

Prepositions with

More practise of prepositions:

• Make a page per preposition in your notebook and write below all the words that collocate with it

• pdf: Test your Grammar for FCE, Units 9-12, answers at at the back of the book

• online: https://www.englishrevealed.co.uk/fce_grammar.php

Noun/verb collocations

Choose the word that does not collocate with the word given at the top of the slide

Multiple Choice

arise

• difficulty

• knowledge

• need

• opportunity

• problem

Multiple Choice

attention

• draw

• permit

• pay

• receive

• seek

Multiple Choice

damage

• assess

• cause

• inflict

• repair

• take

Multiple Choice

interest

• attract

• develop

• excite

• feign

• give

Multiple Choice

language

• acquire

• learn

• speak

• tell

• use

Multiple Choice

pass

• control

• an exam

• a law

• judgement

• the time

Adverbs + adjectives

Adverbs that make adjectives stronger/weaker:

- completely, absolutely, extremely, utterly, totally

- slightly, somewhat, fairly, a little

Multiple Choice

I was ____________ satisfied with my test results.

• completely

• utterly

Multiple Choice

It is highly _________________ that the president will resign today.

• likely

• possible

Multiple Choice

The machine was ____________ useless.

• slightly

• utterly

Multiple Choice

I am __________________ concerned about your behaviour.

• extremely

• totally

Multiple Choice

It was ____________ cold in the winter.

• bitterly

• completely

Multiple Choice

The oil spill had a _______________ impact on the surrounding environment.

• big

• heavy

Multiple Choice

It is ________________ impossible to predict the future with any certainty.

• very

• absolutely

Listening

Let's looks at some key words from the listening

Forming adjectives from nouns

We use the following suffixes to form adjectives of nouns:

- al / regional, accidental, personal

-ary / customary, complimentary, dietary

- ful / beautiful, colourful, delightful

- ic / athletic, heroic, photographic

- ical / magical, practical, logical

- ish / foolish, sheepish, selfish

- less / powerless, worthless, penniless

- like / lifelike, childlike, humanlike

- ly / friendly, costly, orderly, cowardly

- ous / poisonous, victorious, mysterious

- y / messy, dirty, rainy, cloudy, spotty

Make adjectives of the nouns given

use the following suffixes, -al, -(i)ous, and -ful