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Collocation Ladder

This document provides instructions for an ESL vocabulary game called "Collocation Ladder" where students practice guessing words that form collocations. The teacher writes the first and last words of run-on collocations on a board, leaving spaces in between. Students are divided into teams and take turns guessing the missing words by providing a letter, with the goal of completing the collocations correctly to earn points. The game helps students improve their knowledge of words that commonly go together.

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Collocation Ladder

This document provides instructions for an ESL vocabulary game called "Collocation Ladder" where students practice guessing words that form collocations. The teacher writes the first and last words of run-on collocations on a board, leaving spaces in between. Students are divided into teams and take turns guessing the missing words by providing a letter, with the goal of completing the collocations correctly to earn points. The game helps students improve their knowledge of words that commonly go together.

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ESL VOCABULARY GAMES

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Collocation Ladder

Activity Type Introduction


Spelling and guessing This useful vocabulary game can be used to help students practice
activity, group work collocations.

Procedure
Focus
Write the first and last word of your run-on collocations in a ladder
Collocations
on the board, leaving empty rungs for the words in between.

Example:
Aim
To guess words that express–service–charge–take–away–go–home–stay-behind
make collocations.
express
..............
Preparation
..............
A list of run-on
collocations ..............
..............
Level ..............

Pre-intermediate (A2-B1) ..............


..............

Time behind

20 minutes Explain that each word on the ladder makes a collocation with the
word next to it and that the collocations can be read up or down.

Divide the class into two teams (A and B).

Team A chooses either the top or bottom rung of the ladder.

Write the first letter of the word on their chosen rung.

For example, if Team A chose the top rung, you add 's'.

Team A then tries to guess the word from the collocation.

If a team correctly guesses the word, they score one point and
play again.

If Team A gets the word wrong, Team B chooses the top or bottom
rung and another letter is added and so on.

Play several rounds using other run-on collocations.

The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.

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