The Teachers Room: Fun collocation activities

Collocations are commonly put together pairings of words. They can be weakly or strongly related. Learning them will greatly enhance your students use of vocabulary and speaking skills. So here are a few fun and memorable activities you can use to practise them. Collocation race The easiest way to practise collocations is to have students sort them into columns on the board. Split the board into columns with half a collocation as a heading. Then call out, hand out or provide the other half and have studen