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information. So what are we going to talk to you about today? Well, we're going to talk
to you about collocations. And the first collocations are those do with the word ALL. A L L. So
I have several of these and I'll talk you through each of them slowly, with some good
examples and hopefully then you'll be able to understand how exactly we can use them.
Okay. So if you're comfortable, let's begin. So the first one is ALL OVER, ALL OVER. So
all over means everywhere. All over the world there are people starving all over the world.
There are people who are rich or over. Okay? So all over can mean everywhere. So one of
the children comes in and they knock over a glass of water and the water goes everywhere.
All over the floor, all over the table, clothes, all over your laptop. And ‘Oh my God, what
has happened? It's all over.’ Yeah. Okay. And we can also use all over in a slightly
different way when we want to put some, statement or some exclamation about something. Well,
the game ‘It's all over now’. Meaning that was the very last kick of the game and
there's nothing anybody can do about the result. It's all over. It's finished. Okay then we
have ALL BUT. ALL BUT. And that means almost completely, all but. ‘I'm all but out of
money’ I've only a little bit of money in my pocket or in my, in my bank, I need some
more. I'm all but out of money. You're driving along the road and you're looking at the little
needle on your, um, your dashboard and you see that all you're in the red zone of the
petrol or your fuel. And you go ‘Oh my God,I’m all but out of petrol, I hope I find a petrol
station soon so I can fill up my car.’ Okay. And the next collocation we have is ALL TOO.
And this is T O O. All too. And this usually means very, we often use it with expressions
all too often or too easy. Okay. You do this all too often? No, he does it all too often.
He's been late every day this week. He does it all too often for my liking. We should
tell them something or we should give him a warning. Okay. All too easy. It's all too
easy for kids these days. They get anything that they want. In my day, we had to work
really hard for something. Well, I did. We had to work really hard for everything. So
it's all too easy for kids these days.
Next one ALL ROUND. All ROUND, all round means a bit like the first one. We gave you words
everywhere or around the world. Yeah. You ask one of the children to clean the house
and say: ‘Okay, look, if you want some pocket money, you're going to have to work for it.
You're going to have to do some hoovering and mind you, it's not just where you see,
you have to go all round the house, into the corners, up high, down low, get everything.’
Hoovered never works for my kids, but I keep hoping. So all round. You can also say things
like all year round. Yeah. Okay. So the weather in the Canary islands is warm all year round.
The weather in the tropics is very hot all year round means all of the time, every time
you visit. The next one I have for you is specifically to do with sport and in particular
is to do with football.
So we use ALL when we're talking about the result or the score. Somebody says: ‘Well,
what's the score on the match?’ ‘It's one all’ Meaning one goal for one team,
one goal for the other team. What was the final result? Two all, ah, an even game, equal,
everybody got a point. So two all - two goals for your team, two goals for the other team.
So one or two, all three or et cetera. Even when there's no score in the game, zero, zero
or nil. All. Okay. Zero zero on nil all. So what do we have next? Then the next one is
ALL TOLD. Okay. Meaning to get everything together. All told.Everything together. Well,
all told that wasn't such a bad presentation. I mean, it started off well, the middle was
okay. We've got a good lot of questions at the end. So all told meaning altogether we
could be quite pleased with what we did.
So all told meaning all together. Okay. And the next one is KNOW IT ALL. Know it all well
this is quite common and often we use it with somebody when we get a little bit annoyed
with them and say: ‘Oh, you know it all. Yeah, you think you know it all.’ Or your
children, 16 and 17 year olds. 16 or 17 year olds, they know it all, don't they? They think
they do. They haven't had the experience that you and I have had. They don't really know
it all. So know it all means when they think they have all the information or you think
they have all the information. Or indeed when you want to give somebody a little bit of
a slagging: ‘Ha, ha, you know it all don't you?’ When really they've made a mistake
and they didn't really get it correct. Okay.
So know it all. Now, there is a word, a noun. We can say a knowall. And when we try and
tell, when we speak to somebody that thinks they know everything. ‘Ah, you're just a
knowall.’ You mean you think you know it all. So know it all and knowall slightly different
but with the same intention and the same meeting. Okay. And then the next one is TO BE ALL SOMETHING.
To be all something. And usually we use this with words like to be all smiles. Yeah. Or
to be all innocent. Yeah. So what do they mean? Well, to be all smiles as somebody who's
always got a smile on face, but behind it there might lurk, a hidden meaning. The guy
might not be so sincere with these smiles and say: ‘Ah, that guy, he's all smiles.
But really you need to be very careful about him because he would stick the knife in when
he's, when you're not looking.’ So to be all smiles doesn't always mean the person
is very nice.
Okay. To be all innocent means when someone says: ‘It wasn't me, I couldn't have done
that. Oh my God.’ Yeah. So to be all innocent means somebody who denies that they had any
part in anything or they are acting a little bit innocently. And again, there's something
there underneath that that you might think they're not as innocent as you think they
are. Okay. This could be kids. Yeah. So a little eight or nine year old can be all smiles
or all innocent when really they pushed your son over in the park or they did something
that pulled the flowers out of your garden. Something really nasty. Okay. So to be all
something all smiles or innocent. And this one is one of my favourites, ALL TALK. So
all talk often comes with another expression - all talk but no action. So you can get the
hint from that.
But exactly it means. So when we talk about somebody being all talk it's and nah, nah,
nah. But they never followed through with any specific action. You know, one of the
children, you can ask them: ‘Well, how are the studies going?’ ‘Oh yeah, yeah, I'm
doing well and I'm going to a few hours here and a few hours there and yeah.’ ‘And
what did you yesterday?’ ‘I had to go to to football yesterday, so I didn't do as
much as I wanted to do and’ ‘Well, what about tomorrow?’ ‘Well, actually there's
a football match tomorrow so probably won't be able to do a bit.’ So my God, here we
go, all talk about the studies but no action and we'll find out when we get there. The
results of the exams, hopefully. Good. So when somebody is all talk, they usually tell
you what they're going to do and they'd tell you again what they're going to do and they'll
tell you again what they're going to do.
But there's no action. They don't follow it through. Okay. And the next one we have is
ALL NIGHTER. Okay. This is the sort of a invented world, you know, night N I G H T as a night
and nighter and N. I. G. H. T. E. R. So what's an all nighter? Well, an all nighter can be
a really rough party. I've had a few of those in my time, I can tell you. So you know, we
went out with the intention of having one or two beers and it ended up being an all
nighter. So you're struggling to work the next morning and the boss looked at you and
your eyes were down here somewhere. Oh yeah, an all nighter, was it Harry, is it? Well,
you know, we were celebrating. So an all nighter is something that goes on all night, long
into the night. And when you get there in the morning you think, Oh God, never again.
Okay. Where we're nearly there now and just one last one. ALL IN ALL. All in all it means
like taking everything together. Well, all in all, it wasn't such a bad performance,
was it? All in all we, we won the match. We could have played a little bit better, but
all in all we got the results we wanted on and all that. The party was quite good. Everything
went well, people turned up on time. There's a lot of dancing that is singing. The food
was really great. So all in all, I think this place not so bad. We might try it again next
year. Okay guys. So that completes the lesson for today and we were talking about collocations
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