Collocation teaching guides for  ESL
teachers

Article on Lexical Approach

Collocations exercises for specific words for ESL

Advanced phrasal verbs worksheet (PDF)

At Home with Do, Make, and Take collocations
worksheet (PDF)

Do/make exercises (PDF)

Collocation worksheets incl. noun collocations for routines, Business English collocations verb-noun . (PDF)

Do or make? : Complete the chart with the words from the list.

Combinations with get, come, up including exercises

Lots of interesting collocations quizzes at UsingEnglish.com

Collocations Collection (take,have, break, catch , pay, keep, save, find, go,come, get, feel ,miss, get , do, make)

Collocations: do, make; win, gain earn etc

Collocations:  Give, Make, Take

Collocations with "get"

Collocations with "do"

Get, put, take, make,do quizzes

Seem, look, appear collocations

take care / take a look: verb + noun collocations with take

Medical collocations

Collocation with advanced levels 1 - not  proper/appropriate/good?

Collocations with 'high' and 'low'


Teaching Multi-word verbs/Phrasal Verbs/Two Part Verbs to ESL students

Multi-word verb list (PDF)

Phrasal verbs:Try this online activity with your Pre-intermediate students to practice useful phrasal verbs.

Phrasal verbs worksheets (PDF) 1

Choose the sentences with phrasal verbs

Phrasal Verbs Game

Phrasal verbs guide/activity

Phrasal Verbs Through Lexis..for example
Theme 1: Good & Bad Feelings Theme 2: Good & Bad Behaviour Theme 3: Life & Health

Requests(Teaching ideas from New Interchange)

Collocation teaching activities

An introduction to Collocation - a lesson plan

Collocation with advanced levels 2-
ESL classroom activities

Calculated guess: Choose the noun from the box which collocates with each set of verbs

Telephone collocations warmer

Prepositions with nouns and verbs:advanced

Collocations card game

Collocations: adjectives and verbs

A collection of collocation exercises at better-english.com (interactive)

Reading and Collocations Exercise(PDF)

OUP sample Collocation Game (PDF)