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Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages

Behaviourist SLA Classroom Illustration

COLLOCATIONS

Exercise

Preparation
Work on the Behaviourism-Language unit, particularly

Saussure structuralism sign syntagm

Exercises
Try the three exercises below, using the above link for the sites cited.

Sample answers
Download the answer sheet from the above link.

1. Food action-noun matching

2. Drag and drop

3. Strong collocations

1. Food Action-Noun Matching


http://www.esl-galaxy.com/matching/Food%20and%20Restaurant%20Action.pdf
This worksheet comes from ESL-Galaxy, a site for EFL/ESL learners maintained by
Futonge N. Kisito.

Learners are required to match the action in column A (serve, drink) with the noun in
column B (an order, beer).

a. What type of structural pattern is being practiced in this exercise?

b. How is the learner expected to find the correct answers?

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Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages
Behaviourist SLA Classroom Illustration

2. Drag and drop

Try the following two online exercises.

Animal sounds 1
http://www.englishclub.com/esl-games/match_animalsounds01.htm
Which animal makes which sound? Drag and drop the verbs to match the nouns in this
online EFL exercise from Englishclub.

Categories 1
http://www.englishclub.com/esl-games/match_categories01.htm
Which word is an example of which category? Drag and drop the vocabulary items to
the matching superordinate category.

Do the exercises require learners to practice paradigmatic or syntagmatic relations?

3. Strong collocations
http://www.better-english.com/strongcollocation/collocations.htm
Try this exercise for EFL learners of Business English. Check your score out of 20.

a. What kind of collocations does the activity focus on?

b. How well did you score? What does your score say about your mastery of English if
you are i) a native speaker and ii) a second language speaker of English?

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