COLLOCATIONS: LEISURE AND LIFESTYLE
EATING AND DRINKING
1 Match the words on the left with their collocations on the right.
1 set
additives
2 food
food
3 junk
produce
4 ready
menu
5 fresh
meals
2 Complete these sentences using the collocations from exercise 1 to fill the gaps.
1 …Food additives…………….……… such as artificial flavours and colouring can cause allergies.
2 …Junk food…………….………may be unhealthy, but it’s quick and easy and fills you up.
3 People who don’t have much time to cook often buy ……ready meals…….………… from the supermarket.
4 It’s always better to buy .......fresh produce................................... instead of canned or frozen foods.
5 The ......set menu................................. is usually cheaper than ordering dishes separately in a restaurant
3 Replace the underlined words with suitable collocations from the words/phrases below:
slap-up meal, reasonably priced, home-cooked meal, processed foods, refreshing drink, light, hearty,
gourmet , substantial, decent meals, soft drinks
1 Processed foods may damage our health in the long term.
2 Some people always have three decent meals a day, but I prefer a hearty breakfast and then a light meal
around midday and a more substantial meal in the evening.
3 There are some overpriced restaurants in the city centre, but down at the beach, there are some nice,
reasonably priced ones.
4 On my birthday my parents took me out for a slap-up meal. They wanted to go for a gourmet meal but I said
I’d prefer something more ordinary.
5 Iced tea is a refreshing drink on a hot day, and is probably better for you than soft drinks such as cola or
lemonade.
6 Let me take you out to dinner on your birthday. Or would you prefer a home-cooked meal?
I could make dinner for you at my place.
FILMS AND BOOKS
1 Match the words in the box on the left with their collocations on the right.
Full house ; Box-office hit ; Female
lead ; Bedtime reading ; Big screen
2 Correct the seven collocation errors in this paragraph. The first one is done for you.
For all folk music likers, Johnny Coppin’s new album, The Long
Harvest, published last week, will be a great addition to their
collection. Johny recently got solo after five years with the folk band
Blue Mountain. He is proud of the musical inheritance of his native
Kentucky. Tracks 3 and 7 comprise his old friend Wiz Carter on guitar.
With this album Coppin says he hopes to control a wider audience for
folk music. His excellent living performance at the recent Lockwood
Folk Festival suggests he has a good chance of succeeding. He goes on a
tour next month. Don’t miss him.
Lovers
Released; went
Heritage
Feature; Capture
live
3 Complete the crossword.
Across
3 I was completely ______ in my book and didn’t realise
how late it had got.
5 An alternative to 3 across.
6 He wants to go on the _stage_____. He’s always wanted to
be an actor.
7 Who played the male ______ in Destination Saturn?
Down
1 ______ role means ‘small but special part in a film/play’.
2 The film was nominated______ for an Oscar but it didn’t
win.
4 It was an amazing film about space travel, with fantastic
special ______.
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SPORTS, HEALTH & ILLNESS
1 Look at A. Complete the sentences with do, play or go in the correct form.
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You can do Judo
You can play badminton
You can go swimming
You can do weight lifting
You can do circuit training
- You can play table tennis
- You can go skateboarding
- You can even play darts
- in fact, you can play almost any sport you can think of
2 Match the verbs and expressions on the left with their collocations on the right.
1 sustain
diarrhea: bệnh tiêu chảy
2 contract
a cold
3 have an attack of
breast cancer: ung thư vú
4 develop
minor injuries
5 be diagnosed with
typhoid: bệnh thương hàn
6 catch
autism: tự kỉ ám thị
3 Use the verbs and expressions in the left -hand column of exercise 1 instead of the verb get in these
newspaper extracts.
Example: 1. get arthritis - > develop arthritis
1. Develop arthritis
3. To be diagnosed with/ develop cancer 5. Sustained serious injuries
2. Had/ suffered/ experienced moderate or severe diarrhoea
4. contract malaria
6. catch pneumonia
4 Complete the collocations. Use the given words below.
life-threatening, vigorous, splitting , prescribed, stick, shape, trivial, slight, taken, excruciating, healthy,
terminally, balanced, incurable, alleviate, dull
Prescribed: kê đơn ; Excruciating: làm kiệt quệ ; Terminally: mãn tính ; Incurable: ko thể chữa đc
Alleviate: dịu lại ; Dull: yếu, chậm chạp ; Vigorous: mạnh mẽ ; Trivial: ko đáng kể
1 Flu is not a serious illness for most people, but it can be ....life-threatening........................ for elderly people
who are weak and who haven’t been vaccinated.
2 Patients who are terminally....... ill often prefer to die at home surrounded by their loved ones.
3 I’m not in pain, it’s just a .dull...................... ache in my back tooth. I hate going to the dentist’s.
4 The children have a .....healthy...................... diet, with lots of fruit and vegetables and only a few sweet
things now and then.
5 Turn that music down! I’ve got a splitting.......... headache!
6 You shouldn’t waste the doctor’s time with trivial...... ailments. Get something at the
chemist’s instead.
7 I need to adopt a proper fitness programme and to stick............... to it. I was in good …balanced…………. a
year ago but then I became a bit lazy.
8 Diseases which are .....incurable........................ now will be beaten one day if scientists continue to make
progress with drugs and genetic science.
9 My aunt was taken............ ill when she was on holiday. Apparently, she was in
...........excruciating........................ pain. Luckily she had travel insurance.
10 I believe in healthy eating and I try to do .........vigorous.................... exercise every other day.
11 My doctor .....prescribed......................... me a new drug to ......alleviate.................... my backache. It
worked!
12 I took a day off work yesterday. It was nothing serious, just a slight........... cold.
ACCOMMODATION
1 Match the beginning of each sentence on the left with its ending on the right.
1 We want to turn our garage into a
2 Harper has invited me to her
3 Next week I have to move out of
4 Xavier makes a business out of doing up
5 Our bedroom overlooks
6 Our house needs to be completely
7 I hope that one day I’ll have a place of
8 The bank can help if you want to take out a
house-warming party.
mortgage.
my own.
granny flat.
my flat.
the garden.
old houses.
refurbished.
2 Correct the collocation errors in these sentences.
1 We live on a busy road, but we’re lucky because we have off-road park. => parking
2 Gemma has moved off from her old flat and has now got a new place in Walville Street. => away
3 We’re building an expansion to our house which will give us a bigger kitchen. => extension
4 The flat is totally furnished, which is good because I have no furniture of my own. => already/ completely
5 She had to get out a big mortgage as the house was very expensive. => take out
6 There is no buyable housing for young people in this area; prices are ridiculously high. => affordable
7 New people have entered into the house next door. I haven’t met them yet. => gone/got
8 It’s a very spatial apartment with a huge living room and a big kitchen. => spacious
9 The flat is accessible to rent from the first of March onwards. => available
10 My brother and his wife live in a windy old cottage. => draughty