Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Collocations Worksheet

1.- Assistance
  1. humanitarian, military, legal, technical, enforcement, medical and financial. Psychological, family.
  2. Annual report, newspaper, manual (instructions), web site, brochure.
  3. spend, provide, offer, receive, request
  4. Giving assistance: spend, provide, offer
  5. Asking assistance: request, receive

2.- Attitude

  1. positive, prudent, responsible, hostile, ambivalent, inflexible, detached, critical
  2. Positive: positive, responsible. Negative: hostile, inflexible, ambivalent. Neutral: prudent, critical, detached.
  3. adopt, create, explain, demonstrate, take
  4. towards

3.- Authorities

  1. city, state, federal, local, German, Russian. All of these words are related with Governmental levels of jurisdiction.
  2. county, customs, school
  3. preserve the environment, protect ctizens against crime, prevent economic crisis, educate chindren, order the confiscation of something, launch different projects.
  4. apply public policies, design or implement social programs, communicate results, declare war

4.- Indication

  1. Signal, symbol, sympton
  2. reliable, no, strong, clear
  3. be, follow, see, take, find
  4. of

5.- Reliance

  1. total, growing, heavy, reduce, excessive
  2. Fixed degree: total, heavy. Change in degree: growing, reduce
  3. Negative meaning
  4. over reliance

6.- Approach

  1. conventional, creative, pedagogical, systematic, traditional, innovative, anthropological
  2. areas of study, related to the status quo (conventional and traditional) and related to changes (innovative and creative)
  3. to
  4. governmental reports, journal

7.- Asses

  1. impact of a project, customers preferences, law impact, consequenses of proposals, damage of natural disasters. You asses the effect.
  2. favorable or not favorable opinion about political parties, presidential approval, results or evaluation of social programs, electoral preferences.
  3. readily, difficult
  4. to asses the results, to asses the changes on electoral preferences