3. Copying the collocations

Why do we learn collocations?

• Your language will be more natural and more easily understood.

• You will have alternative and richer ways of expressing yourself.

• It is easier for our brains to remember and use language in chunks or blocks rather than as single words.

　　Now read the text and find the collocations.

Collocations from MAKING THE BET sit deep in conversation坐着深切交谈, fancy oneself自负, pronounce twenty-four distinct vowel sounds清晰地发出24个元音, a common kind of girl with dirty nails普通的手指甲脏的姑娘, talk into...对着......讲话, get an interesting accent夹杂很有趣的口音, a bit of luck有运气, make records做记录, return shortly很快回来, come into the rooms shyly羞怯地走进房间 ,be dirty and badly dressed穿着破旧并且脏, curtsy to...向......行屈膝礼, ask any favors求某人帮忙, treat...like dirt把......当下贱人看, get...for two shillings an hour from...从......每小时得到两先令, have the face to do...有脸做......, pass...off as...冒充一位......, pay for...向......付钱, burn one's horrible clothes烧掉可怕的衣服, have a bath洗澡, weep with...和......哭泣, in need of...需要......, deal with...处理......, begin with...以......为开端, fade out减弱消失, go off stage走下台 4. Acting a play

Pygmalion

(By George Bernard Shaw)

ACT I

Covent Garden at 11.15 p.m. Torrents of heavy summer rain. Cab whistles blowing frantically in all directions. Pedestrians running for shelter into the market and under the portico of St. Paul's Church, where there are already several people, among them a lady and her daughter in evening dress. They are all peering out gloomily at the rain, except one man with his back turned to the rest, who seems wholly preoccupied with a notebook in which he is writing busily.