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Collocations: "Do" verbs meaning perform
6. Have, Make, Do:
Choose from these words four that make strong word associations
with each of the verbs below:
| progress |
lunch |
a drink |
a donation |
your homework |
a mistake |
| the work |
dinner |
his dirtywork for him |
a contribution |
a try |
harm |
- HAVE
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- MAKE
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- DO
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
- ____________________
Use some of the word collocations to write something
about your or somebody else's life.
- ____________________________________________________________
- ____________________________________________________________
- ____________________________________________________________
- ____________________________________________________________
(Note:Idea taken from Michael Lewis, Pedagogical Implications
of the Lexical Approach, p. 261.
Lexical items taken from the Cambridge International Dictionary of
English, p.405)
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