IELTS Collocations
- Some of the most important vocabulary needed for IELTS writing are collocations. These are essential when expanding your vocabulary. Basically, collocations are 2 or 3 words that commonly go together and sound just right to a native speaker. For some tips on building your vocabulary take a look at this application.
- If you do not know how to use collocations then they will sound or look ‘wrong’ to a native speaker .
● Why are collocations so important?
- In the marking criteria in IELTS, you are marked on Lexical Resource (vocabulary). You will be marked on the way you use collocations in the writing section, mainly essays. Here is what it says in the Public Band Descriptors about Writing task 2 Band 7
- Not only are collocations in IELTS important for writing, but they are useful in the speaking test also. They give your speech a smooth natural flow, which if used well, can help you get a Band 7 or more in the speaking test. You have to know how to use them correctly though.
● How do I learn collocations?
- When you learn new words you must learn the surrounding words or the matching words that help it collocate. Do not just memorise words on their own. Collocations are like chunks of language and there are various patterns to these.
- The best way to learn collocations is through reading, listening and making your own sentences. I advise making a vocabulary book where you write out example sentences. I do not advise making word lists because you must know how collocations work in the surrounding sentence. These also have to be reviewed regularly and put into practice.
● There are quite a few patterns such as:
- Verb + Noun
- Verb + Adverb
- Adjective + Noun
- Adverb + Adjective
- Noun + Noun
- Collocations with ‘have’ or ‘take’
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Reviews (29)
The app is really useful, but the advertisements are really unbearable! Every several seconds there're pop-up notifications with videos.
Helpful but not that much because shown ads before searching every word for collocation it really breaks concentration to study that's so annoying. 😵
HI, I have made the payment, but i am still getting the ads. Seems the payment is not updated in my account or in your system. Can you please check and update.
The best source that I found to learn English collocatons. I usually take notes and use them as flashcards and I could learn a lot.
Very basic English words and for most description is absent. Only advertisements.
Too many ads, for every collaction we learn, it will show a ad, irritating.
I gave it 4 stars because of pop up ads ! Before searching any collocations it shows an add and that's really pesky
an extremely amazing app everyone should acquire it regardless the shortage of the words .. you can use it effortlessly .. thanks keep up the remarkable work
How to disable ads? It keeps showing one ad repeatedly without telling me what to do next.
Its good app with some words. But when we search words taking more time to load.. Please look into this.
This collocation dictionary sounds so good even after just a few words have been looked up!
Some words dont exist in this application like ''' dine , look for , unwind ,... "" I hope to fix this problem at new update...
A lot of advertisements, excessive publicity, too complicated
I give three stars as there a lot of ads showing however that app it's useful for IETLS exam
Video Ad for every word and the content is insufficient
It won't allow to update the app and many ads
There is no IELTS and Academic words or collocations.
Right from the beginning, I can't download it, I've given it lots of tries but nothing
very good but not complete in word and phrases
It helps to use words in their right place. Thank you. Ayalew tefera
Adevertestment in the your application is very annoying.
Very useful and clear explanation.
i'm very satisfied with this app, it help broaden my english so much <3
this is the most useful program about collocations i've ever seen. thank you
It doesn't work It keeps stopping each time I open it peeeef😪
Ads is so annoying
i cannot search the word enhance any words. search doesnt work
easy way to leaen vocabulary
One of the best English collocation dictionary app I've ever installed on my phone.Very useful for people like me who wants to build and broaden their vocabulary. I definitely recommend it to people who wants to improve their English skill even more and to those who aren't yet confident with their command of English.