Academic Collocations ACL Worksheets, Activities and Games
Academic Skills Collocations
Academic Collocations Worksheet - Vocabulary, Reading and Writing Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill, Writing Sentences - Speaking Activity: Discussion - Pair Work
This useful academic collocations worksheet helps students practice common verb-noun collocations used in academic contexts. First, students match words from a..
Academic Collocations Worksheet - Vocabulary, Reading and Writing Exercises: Matching, Binary Choice, Gap-fill, Writing Sentences - Speaking Activity: Discussion, Freer Practice - Pair Work This useful academic collocations worksheet helps students practice common verb-noun collocations used in academic contexts. First, students match words from a box to pictures showing academic activities. Students then match verbs to nouns to make academic collocations. Next, students underline the correct collocation to complete sentences about academic situations. After that, students complete a text about study goals using the correct collocations from a box. Students then write down three academic activities they want to focus on from the previous exercise. Following that, students write sentences explaining their goals and how they will practice them. Lastly, students discuss reflection questions about their academic goals with a partner.
Academic Collocations 1 to 10
ACL Academic Collocations 1 to 10 Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Discussion - Group Work
In this comprehensive academic collocations worksheet, students become familiar with the meaning and usage of the 10 most frequently encountered collocations...
ACL Academic Collocations 1 to 10 Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Guided Discussion, Communicative Practice - Group Work In this comprehensive academic collocations worksheet, students become familiar with the meaning and usage of the 10 most frequently encountered collocations used in academic contexts. First, students match sentence halves together to form sentences containing academic collocations. Next, students complete gap-fill statements using the academic collocations. In the final exercise, students decide if they agree or disagree with the statements and then discuss their answers in small groups.
Academic Collocations 11 to 20
ACL Academic Collocations 11 to 20 Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Identifying, Error Correction, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity - Pair Work
In this free academic collocations worksheet, students learn the meaning and usage of the most frequently used academic collocations 11 to 20. First, students match...
ACL Academic Collocations 11 to 20 Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Identifying, Error Correction, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Guided Discussion - Pair Work In this free academic collocations worksheet, students learn the meaning and usage of the most frequently used academic collocations 11 to 20. First, students match academic collocations from a box to their correct definitions. Next, students identify sentences with collocation errors and correct them. After that, students complete gaps in a sentence with three collocations from Exercise A. In the final exercise, students decide if they agree with the opinion expressed in the sentence and then discuss their thoughts with a partner.
Academic Collocations 21 to 30
ACL Academic Collocations 21 to 30 Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Discussion - Group Work
In these useful academic collocation exercises, students practice the meaning and usage of the 21 to 30 most frequently encountered collocations...
ACL Academic Collocations 21 to 30 Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Discussion, Communicative Practice - Group Work In these useful academic collocation exercises, students practice the meaning and usage of the 21 to 30 most frequently encountered collocations used in academic contexts. To start, students match sentence halves together to form sentences containing academic collocations. Students then complete gap-fill statements using the academic collocations. In the next exercise, students decide if they agree or disagree with particular statements by completing a table, giving reasons for their answers. Finally, students discuss their answers in small groups.
Academic Collocations 31 to 40
ACL Academic Collocations 31 to 40 Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Communicative Practice - Group Work
In this productive academic collocations worksheet, students learn the meaning and practice the usage of the 31 to 40 most used academic collocations...
ACL Academic Collocations 31 to 40 Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Guided Discussion, Communicative Practice - Group Work In this productive academic collocations worksheet, students learn the meaning and practice the usage of the 31 to 40 most used academic collocations. First, students match sentence halves together to form sentences containing academic collocations. Students then complete statements using the collocations. Finally, in small groups, students discuss whether they agree or disagree with the statements in Exercise B, giving reasons for their answers and asking follow-up questions to discuss each item fully.
Academic Collocation Challenge
ACL Academic Collocation Games - Vocabulary: Pelmanism, Matching, Snap, Forming Sentences - Pair Work
Here are two enjoyable academic collocation games to help students practice recognising and using academic collocations that frequently appear in academic texts. First, students play a pelmanism...
ACL Academic Collocation Games - Vocabulary: Pelmanism, Matching, Snap, Forming Sentences from Prompts - Pair Work Here are two enjoyable academic collocation games to help students practice recognising and using academic collocations that frequently appear in academic texts. First, students play a pelmanism game where they match cards together to form academic collocations. In pairs, students take turns turning over one card from each set. If the two cards match to form an academic collocation, the student keeps the two cards and has another turn. If not, the student turns the cards back over and play passes to the other student. When the students have finished, they use a cheat sheet to check their answers. The student with the most correct matches wins the game. After that, students play a game of snap by matching the first part of an academic collocation with the second part. Both students turn over a card from their pile at the same time. If the cards form an academic collocation, the first student to say 'Snap!' scores one point. The winning student then tries to create a sentence using the collocation for an extra point. Students then pick up their own cards, shuffle them and play again. If a student says 'Snap!' when the cards don't match, the other student scores a point and the game continues. The first student to score 20 points wins the game.
Academic Collocations Race
ACL Academic Collocation Game - Vocabulary and Speaking Game: Gap-fill, Giving Reasons, Error correction, Freer Practice - Group Work
Here is an engaging academic collocations board game to help students practice collocations 41-60 from the Academic Collocation List. Students take...
ACL Academic Collocation Game - Vocabulary and Speaking Game: Gap-fill, Giving reasons, Error correction, Freer Practice - Group Work Here is an engaging academic collocations board game to help students practice collocations 41-60 from the Academic Collocation List. Students take turns rolling the dice and moving their counter along the board. When a player lands on a 'Gap-fill' square, another student picks up a gap-fill card and reads the sentence to the player using the word 'blank' for the missing collocation, e.g. 'This textbook is BLANK in academic writing courses.' The player listens to the sentence, chooses a suitable collocation from the game board, and says it aloud to complete the sentence, e.g. 'widely used'. When landing on a 'Context' square, a student reads a situation aloud and the player chooses a relevant collocation from the game board and justifies their choice. When landing on a 'Correction' square, a student reads a sentence containing an incorrect collocation and the player corrects it using a collocation from the game board. If the player gives a correct answer, they stay on their square. If the answer is incorrect, they move back two squares. The first student to reach the finish wins the game.
Collocation Connection Quest
ACL Academic Collocations Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Making Connections, Giving Reasons, Communicative Practice - Group Work
This engaging academic vocabulary card game helps students practice making logical connections between collocations and explaining their reasoning...
ACL Academic Collocations Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Making Connections, Giving Reasons, Communicative Practice - Group Work This engaging academic vocabulary card game helps students practice making logical connections between collocations and explaining their reasoning clearly. Players work in teams of four, taking turns building chains of related academic collocations. Each player starts with four collocation cards, while the remaining cards form a draw pile in the centre. When it's their turn, players must connect one of their cards to the previous card by explaining a clear logical relationship, such as cause and effect or steps in a process. The other team members then vote on whether the connection makes sense. If the majority agrees, the card stays in the chain and play continues. If they disagree, the player takes their card back and draws a new one from the pile. Players who cannot make any connection must draw a card and try again, or pass their turn if still unable to connect. The process continues until someone uses all their cards, and that player wins the game.
Collocations for Research Writing
ACL Academic Collocations Worksheet - Vocabulary and Writing Exercises: Gap-fill, Ordering, Binary Choice, Identifying, Rewriting Sentences, Paragraph Writing
In this helpful academic collocations worksheet, students learn and practice advanced collocations commonly used in thesis and research paper..
ACL Academic Collocations Worksheet - Vocabulary and Writing Exercises: Gap-fill, Ordering, Binary Choice, Identifying, Rewriting Sentences, Paragraph Writing In this helpful academic collocations worksheet, students learn and practice advanced collocations commonly used in thesis and research paper writing. First, students complete sentences with words from a box to form academic collocations. Next, students order the collocations to reflect the logical sequence of research writing. Students then choose the correct collocation to complete sentences and identify informal phrases that can be replaced with academic collocations. In the following exercises, students rewrite sentences using appropriate academic register and transform an informal paragraph into academic language. Finally, students write their own paragraph describing research writing steps.