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Collocations 9

The document emphasizes the importance of learning collocations for fluent English and the necessity of active review to retain knowledge. It suggests using exercises or flashcards for effective memorization, highlighting that proper review can lead to remembering 90% of studied material. The document also includes a review exercise with missing collocations and their answers.

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Collocations 9

The document emphasizes the importance of learning collocations for fluent English and the necessity of active review to retain knowledge. It suggests using exercises or flashcards for effective memorization, highlighting that proper review can lead to remembering 90% of studied material. The document also includes a review exercise with missing collocations and their answers.

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COLLOCATIONS 8

It’s so important to learn things like collocations really well, because then we can use them
automatically, without thinking, and our English just flows!

And to learn something really well, we must review.

If we don't review, after a few days, we forget almost everything that we've studied.

On the other hand, if we review something three or four times, with a space between the
reviews, we can remember almost everything.

But it's not useful just to read the words or watch the video again. To review properly, we
need to be active. We need to do exercises or use flashcards - things that make us search
for the words in our minds.

Research into flashcards shows that we can reasonably expect to memorise 90% of what we
study forever, if we study using lots of active reviews!

(And if you learn 90% of 150 useful collocations properly, it can absolutely transform your
everyday English!)

Today, let’s review some of the collocations that we learned this week (see my email
from Tuesday). Can you put in the missing words? (Answers at the bottom.)

1. I have ______ to believe that you ate all the chocolate!

2. Fortunately, he made a ______ recovery.

3. If you eat only junk food, you'll suffer the _____.

4. I think this trip is a _____ opportunity and we should definitely go.

5. I think this app will ______ in handy.

Answers:

1. I have reason to believe that you ate all the chocolate!

2. Fortunately, he made a swift recovery.

3. If you eat only junk food, you'll suffer the consequences.

4. I think this trip is a golden opportunity and we should definitely go.

5. I think this app will come in handy.

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