hello everybody and welcome back to love
English I'm Sabra and today we are
looking at collocations so what is a
collocation well a collocation is a
group of two or more words that like to
go together they are just the right fit
for each other and if we changed one of
the words it just doesn't sound right so
for example in English we go for a walk
but we take a stroll we take a photo but
we make a photo album there are just so
many of these little differences in
English but learning these differences
is going to help you to sound ten times
more natural so today we're going to
look at a hundred collocations in
English so get your pens ready
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so there are five areas of
qualifications that we're going to look
at today
the first is daily life and activities
then we're going to look at business and
work then after that we'll look at
family and friends then we'll look at
communicating feelings and emotions and
a little bit about character so how to
describe it somebody's character and
finally we will also look at how to
describe appearances so lots to get
through let's start with daily life and
activities
now these collocations are going to
include nouns and verbs nouns and
adjectives and adverbs and verbs we're
going to look at a variety of different
collocation z' so when you wake up in
the morning hopefully you feel refreshed
if you're organized you will make your
bed which means put your bed back into a
tidy order then you'll probably take a
shower or you might have a shower and
it's probably going to be a quick shower
note that we don't say a fast shower in
English it's we have a quick shower then
you'll probably have some breakfast or
you might even grab a quick breakfast or
just grab breakfast that means have
breakfast quickly take something quickly
then you might do your hair and if
you're a girl you'll probably do your
makeup as well then you'll rush or hurry
to work I'm just calming honestly we'll
be there in five minutes
Tommy please clean your teeth quickly
hurry up and get ready to start your day
now working business in the next section
so we're going to park that for now
which means put it to one side for now
another collocation and we'll carry on
with how we might spend the evening so
we spend an evening we don't pass an
evening and there are many things we
could do with our evening we could play
a game for example
Scrabble generally games that are
competitive will usually take the verb
to play so we can play tennis that we
can play hockey we can play football and
we can also play pool and of course the
aim of the game is to score points
usually if you're the kind of person who
loves scoring points you might be
fiercely competitive which means very
very competitive my boyfriend says I'm
like that book I don't believe it if
you're the sporty type after work you
might go for a run
so generally activities where we have to
go somewhere else to do something we
will use go so it could be for example
go swimming go rock climbing go hiking
go trekking all of those would take go
as you probably know by now English does
like to complicate things so we have
other activities which take do for
example yoga we do yoga we do martial
arts and we do exercise there's a lot of
those other activities like gymnastics
aerobics that again take do
thanks English now if you're anything
like me you might enjoy the odd cozy
evening in so snuggling up on the sofa
and things like that so there are many
koala k shion's related to this you
could be engrossed in a good book and
this means to be very absorbed in the
book to not be able to put it down or
you could be absorbed in a great film or
you could enjoy cooking I want to spend
time preparing dinner and getting
creative in the kitchen if you enjoy
anything we could say that you have a
healthy appetite and most people look
forward to a home-cooked meal in England
it can get a little bit cold so we often
enjoy hearty meals and these mean things
like soups and stews which are filling
and often have lots of beans and
vegetables in them and things like that
so we often will enjoy a hearty meal or
even some comfort food and after a full
evening you'll probably want to curl up
on the sofa and this means to have your
legs up on the sofa and be in a position
where we're kind of lying a little bit
and getting very comfortable to curl up
on the sofa and maybe you'll want to
binge watch Netflix which means to watch
lots of Netflix
after all this activity you'll probably
want to drift into deep sleep deep and
restful sleep but unfortunately in the
morning you'll be really awakened by the
horrible alarm clock okay moving to our
next section which is on work and
business so we go into business but we
set up a company so go into business
means start to work in business set up a
company means that we actually start the
company ourselves and we open it and
organize it it's important when you set
up a company to do market research and
this means to research and see if your
company is going to be a good idea if it
is likely to make profit and if there is
a gap in the market but at the beginning
it's normal for small businesses to
operate at a loss meaning to not
actually be getting any money and to be
putting money in to the business but
hopefully after a while your business
could start to break-even which means
that the amount of money that is coming
in is equal to the amount of money going
out and after that if you're doing a
good job
you will hopefully start to make or
generate a profit which means actually
start earning some money now there could
be tough competition so it's important
that your business starts to gain a
market share and this means that your
business starts to have a slice of the
market share in terms of it takes away
those sales or it has those clients you
want to avoid your business or workplace
going bankrupt or going fast which means
losing all its money and not being able
to operate as a business anymore so
what's going out of the business is
greater than what's coming in on a
serious level but hopefully your
business will be growing or expanding
and you'll be able to hire or take on
new employees which means have new
people come and start to work for you in
work you'll probably spend a lot of
I'm attending meetings taking part in
negotiation and making deals but if you
want to boost sales you could run a
promotion which means to have a special
offer or discounts for a short period of
time or even for a long period of time
and they could boost your sales or you
could launch a new product businesses
need to make sure that they keep up with
the market trends as they don't want
their customers getting bored and taking
their custom or business elsewhere it's
very important as a business to build
trust with your customers but also to
meet deadlines outside of work most of
us want to spend time with our friends
and family now your brothers and sisters
and parents they are called your
immediate family or your nuclear family
your cousins uncle's auntie's
grandparents they are called
your extended family now if you're from
a loving family that gets on well and
supports each other you can say that you
have a close-knit family but of course
all families have arguments and rao's
sometimes what is important is that
whoever did something wrong will take
the blame and they will make an apology
and of course that they will be willing
to sort out the problem and of course
good friends and family members make
life easier for us by offering us their
support on the other hand a family that
doesn't get on very well and has a lot
of problems can be called a
dysfunctional family and this is where
things have broken down there may have
been divorced things like this so the
word we normally use is dysfunctional a
dysfunctional family on a more positive
note people who are in relationships
after a while they may want to make a
commitment to the other person so this
could be like living together or getting
married and if that is the case they
will propose and this is usually the man
to the woman but it can be the other way
around and of course in same-sex couples
it can be either now hopefully the
person says yes and then they get
engaged and after that they will get
married and hopefully spend the rest of
their lives together
hopefully they won't get divorced right
moving on guys to feelings and character
now normally we use the verb have to
describe qualities and personality
traits that a person has so for example
we could say that a person has a
stubborn streak which means they have a
part of their character which is very
stubborn
they don't easily change their mind
things like that they could also have a
quick temper which means they very
quickly get angry they go far they go a
pop like a champagne bottle a person can
also have confidence or determination or
they could have a friendly manner there
are many many options with these guys
but this is for describing qualities
that the person possesses they could
also have a cheerful disposition which
means a happy and positive way of going
about life so they don't tend to get
down a lot if we say oh she's got a
cheerful disposition it means usually
she's happy and positive now we use the
verb to be to describe somebody's
general personalities of what we would
say they are in general the state that
they are so for example you might say
she is funny or she is happy we also use
the word feel for emotions that come and
go for example a person can feel elated
they can feel elated because of
something that has happened and they
feel that for a while but after a while
the feeling would of course fade a
person can feel guilty they can feel
upset or they can feel a deep sense of
regret about something if we say we have
a deep sense about something we often
use this with regret or guilt or fear
often we use it with those more negative
emotions but we're feeling it very
profoundly if we say we have a deep
sense of something so we will often
grade these adjectives with adverbs and
they tell us to what extent would be a
link happy sad elated and things like
that and you guys will often use really
an berry which is fine but in English
there are lots of other options as well
let's have a look at some of these we
can be terribly sorry which means that
we are very sorry and it's very common
to hear terribly actually with sorry we
wouldn't say that we're terribly happy
that sounds strange but we could say
we're terribly sorry
or we're terribly worried we can be
absolutely delighted or we can be
incredibly happy you can be completely
overwhelmed or absolutely fed up you can
also be feliss fully happy now
blissfully happy it means we feel in a
state of delays and that is connected
with the happiness the happiness is a
state of the bliss for us so it's common
to see these two together but we don't
say that we're blissfully excited or
blissfully fascinated it goes with happy
blissfully happy right we are on to the
last section now describing appearances
now when it comes to hair color eye
color certain features on the face skin
color we will use the verb have for
example I have blonde hair I have brown
eyes so we use have we could say that
somebody has a slim figure a toned
figure a curvy figure those are probably
more for women then we can say that
somebody had an athletic body an
athletic build for example or a muscular
body or a beer belly these are the cases
where we would used have because we feel
that the person possesses that thing
however with many things relating to the
body and appearances we use the verb to
be so this goes for height body shape
for describing somebody's attractiveness
all of these would take the verb to be
and of course age as well so we would
say somebody is tall they are short that
curvy chubby plump good-looking handsome
many many of these and if you want a few
more of those kind of adjectives we're
describing appearances guys you can go
and see my video on that which is just
here and finally guys with things that
we put on our bodies such as
as a headscarf earrings we would say
that we are wearing those for example
she wears glasses or she wears a
headscarf
okay everybody oh my goodness we have
come to the end of our a hundred
collocations marathon
I do hope these are going to be super
useful for you and you can go back and
watch this video and learn them again
and again and again make sure that you
use one of them in a sentence below and
I will check that for you also guys you
can tell me about your personality
choose any of the adjectives any of the
Koala Katia's that we looked at in the
lesson and you can use these to describe
your personality in the comments below
I'll be very curious to have a look at
that we'll see you soon on love English
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