Hi there, this is Harry and welcome back to advanced English lessons with
Harry. And the class today, we're going to look in particular at collocations for
FCE, or indeed any other English proficiency exam that you wish to take. So we're going to
look at adjectives and the prepositions and the emphasis is going to be on the correct preposition
that we use with each of those adjectives. So as I said, advanced English co locations.
As you know, we're trying to help you to improve your English to help you to improve your
business English, your communication, conversational English, looking at prepositions,
phrasal verbs, vocabulary, verb tenses, whatever it takes, we're here to try and help you so what
I'm going to do I'm going to go through the list of these agitators and their prepositions and I'm
going to give you an example and hopefully you'll get a better understanding as to how to use them.
Okay, so let's start now there's a long list there are 16 of them today, so I'm going to
give them to you and one good example for each. Or two whatever it would take. Okay. Let's go.
One accustomed to. Capable of. Good at. Relevant to. Afraid of. Dependent
on. Jealous of. Responsible for or you can be responsible to as well. Ashamed of.
Famous for. Proud of. Sensitive to. Aware of. Full of. Ready for or ready to.
Typical of. Okay so 16 ticular adjectives and prepositions all relating to collocations,
as I said, for FCE exams or any other proficiency exam that you would like to take.
And before we go on with the lesson, if you really enjoy this particular lesson then please
like the video and subscribe to my channel because it really really helps.
Okay, let's get cracking. So accustomed to. He is accustomed to having
two cups of coffee in the morning before he leaves for work. So accustomed to that's what he is used
to. He is accustomed to having two cups of coffee in the morning before he leaves for work.
Capable of. He is capable of so much more. So the statement on the school report
your son is really good at maths and chemistry but he's capable of
so much more. He needs to imply apply himself a little better. Capable of.
Good at. He's really good at sports. He loves all ball sports, football, rugby, soccer, whatever it
might be. He's really good at sports but perhaps not so good at something more academic. Good at.
Relevant to. This document is relevant to the conversation we had yesterday,
I think you'll need it you'll have to refer to that document.
When you send the reply it's relevant to. Meaning related or has some connection. Relevant to.
Afraid of. He's afraid of his own shadow. This is a when somebody is a little bit
nervous and they jump ball when something happens or they hear a noise Oh,
don't worry, don't mind that dog is afraid of his own shadow. If he hears something he gets a
little bit nervous and he starts to bark. Afraid of. And we can also say frightened of, scared of
the mean exactly the same. Afraid of. Frightened of. Scared of. All using the same preposition.
Dependent on. Well, he's dependent on his pension now that he has retired,
he's totally dependent on it. He has no other form of source of income. So he's dependent
on his pension to pay his rent. He's dependent on his pension to buy his food to pay for his travel.
He's dependent on he relies on that income that pension to live day to day.
Jealous of. He was always jealous of me when we were young, he was always jealous of me because
I was better at sport. He is jealous of his friend because his friend got a new mountain bike
in his bike is looking a little bit old and shabby. Jealous of somebody because of something.
Responsible to and responsible for. So we have two prepositions here for two different reasons.
He's responsible for the marketing and communications and for all the internal
communications, he is responsible for that. So that's what he has to do. That's his job.
But he can be responsible to the managing director. So he reports directly to the
managing director. He is responsible to him, that's who he reports to.
But he is responsible for a particular action or a particular
activity. Who was responsible for this since the teacher when she looks at the
broken plant on the floor that somebody knocked over who is responsible for this who did this?
Ashamed of. He's ashamed of his parents because of their poor background.
He doesn't like people to know that they came from a very, very poor background.
They didn't really have any great wealth. In fact, they had no car for many many years. So
he's ashamed of his parents are ashamed of his background.
Famous for. He's famous for scoring a hattrick in the World Cup final. Sir Geoff Hurst,
one of the all time greats of English football in 1966.
He scored a hattrick in the World Cup final at the time against
West Germany now Germany, and he went down in history as one of the most famous players ever. So
famous for. Famous for scoring. A hattrick - three goals - in the the final. Famous for.
Proud of. He's proud of his nation. He holds his passport dear to his heart,
he's proud of being a Scotsman. To be proud of something, proud of somebody, okay. Proud of.
Sensitive to. He's very sensitive to criticism. He doesn't like to be criticised openly by people
and gets very emotional. He's sensitive to criticism. You can be sensitive to the sunlight,
you blink in the sun, you have to wear dark glasses all the time. I hate sunglasses. I
don't wear them at all. But some people their eyes can be very sensitive to bright lights.
Aware of. He's aware of his position. He's aware of his weaknesses. Yes,
it's always a good thing to be aware of your own weaknesses. You we all know what our strengths
are. But not all of us know what our weaknesses are. So to be aware of your weaknesses means
you can improve you know what you have to do to improve to be aware of something.
Full of. Well, we can be full of crap. Yeah. So don't listen to him,
he's full of crap. He talks rubbish. Or he can be full of himself, meaning somebody is a bit
arrogant. And he's a bit sanctimonious and he thinks he's the better than everybody else are.
He's so full of himself. I really hate watching him. I really,
really hate looking at movies with him. He's so full of himself.
Ready to and ready for. I'm ready to go whenever you are. I'm ready to leave
the minute you tell me. Okay, I'm ready for action. Yeah, let's... I'm fit, I'm healthy,
I'm ready for action. When are we going to go climb that mountain? Let's go and ready for it.
I'm ready to do whatever you want. So ready to do something, ready for a particular line of action.
And then finally, typical of. Well, ha, of course that's typical of him.
Whenever you need him, he's never there. Oh, yeah, I'll come and help you. Yeah,
I'll be there. Just give me a call. Send them a text message or I can busy today. So that's
typical of him meaning you really can't rely on him or her. Typical of that particular person.
Okay, so there's a list of our adjectives and the prepositions let me go through them once more.
Accustomed to. Capable of. Good at. Relevant to. Afraid of. Dependent on.
Jealous of. Responsible to or for. Ashamed of. Famous for. Proud of. Sensitive to. Aware of.
Full of. Ready to or ready for something, and then typical off. So,
our collocations all for those proficiency exams that you might like to do.
And it's really important to understand what the adjective means but more important and as
important to understand and remember the preposition that goes with each
of those adjectives. So practice them where you can if you have any problems,
check them out in one of your grammar books or come back to me. I'd be happy to help you
and on that point, www.englishlessonviaskype.com. That's where you get me. Any comments,
anything you want me to include? Let me know I'd be happy to look after it for you. Okay,
it's Harry saying goodbye. Thanks for listening and thanks for watching. Join me again soon.