These are some vocabulary exercises related to collocations. A collocation generally refers to two or more words that often appear together.
For example: the world war – humanitarian organization – to have a break – to pass an exam – young people – global issues…..Having chunks of words like this and using them in your own meaningful sentences is one of the best ways to remember vocabulary. So whenever you are reading a text, try to underline collocations and use them later in sentences of your own.
Link a word from [A] with a word from [B] to make collocations:
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Word A. |
Word B. |
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a- Youth d-active |
a-development b-issues c-dreams d-citizens e-young |
Now use the collocations you have formed in the sentences below:
a- Our society should give more attention to …………………………..………………………………… such as education and employment.
b- Young people have an important role to play in ……………………………..……………………………;they can for example do valuable things in associations, politics.
c- Most young people have …………………………………………………….; they want only to make their conditions and their society better. What they dream of is really manageable.
d- During the last ten years, women have become very………………………….…………………………. In our country. They are now working in many different domains that used to be dominated by men in the past.
Download the answers here:answer to the collocations exercises.
