Hey, English learner. It's Halima from Blackboard English
I'm going to teach you how to use a collocation
dictionary in four steps, watch until the end so you can get your free list of online dictionaries and
A bonus tip that you don't want to miss
Remember that collocations help you become fluent in speaking and writing
So that's why it's really important for you to know how to use them. step number one
get to know the types of
collocations
There are seven types of collocations
This number one two three
four five six and
seven
I've written examples here
But I will make another video explaining this in much more detail. step number two
You will click the link I have in the description below
or
type Longman dictionary on
Google
you will arrive to this screen
Put in the search box and try your now
This example I'll write coffee
press enter
Click on the first word
Remember that longman dictionary is a normal dictionary so as you can see it has all the different features
but if you go at the bottom
you will see that it has
collocation section which is really useful for your English fluency
It will make you sound better when you speak and when you write, and you want that, right?
So let they can do the let's take a look at the different example given here
We have phrases
then we have verbs plus coffee. So have a coffee
Drink coffee, so you want to sound natural
Together in a sentence and create, I don't often drink coffee
Go down you'll find adjectives plus coffee.
This is very useful when you're writing something and you want to sound really good?
then you have coffee plus noun here
coffee cup
stain, stain
And it also gives you example sentences again
So step number three is to
Write down the words that you find in your notebook. So for example. I have
Found this right word here, read a book
this collocation, I want to accurate so I can make my
Vocabulary a lot bigger. lets search for the word book because it's the noun
Okay, so this is the options here, and I can let go it and see which one
Okay, i like this one
so we can write - write a book
I really like publish a book
What else goes with book. i dont know,
So now I have all these
verbs that go with book
I'll make sure that I leave lots of space so that if I find more collocation
With book then I will add it later
Now I'm going to give you a bonus tip
If you want to use the dictionary on your phone save the link on your desktop
This way you can always go back to it quickly, and it's free
let me show you how
type Longman dictionary onto Google
I click on this and add to home screen
try to make the title as soon as possible
and add
Well there you have it, you have it on your home screen, and now when you click it will go straight to them
Now you know how to use a collocations dictionary, but do you know which the dictionaries to use?
No problem. I have a list of useful online dictionaries you can use right away
Just click on the link below and you'll find the document. if you liked this lesson
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Be a fearless learner
see, ya