Lesson 1 activities (hands on)
It depends on the situation
Activity 1
Read the following sentences. Do you agree with them? Talk to one of your colleagues and find out whether they share the same opinion as you.
- I’m concerned the government is not always able to provide people with good quality social services.
- Non-native speakers usually have difficulty in understanding some collocations.
- I’m sometimes anxious about speaking in public.
Activity 2
Based on the sentences from the previous activity, answer the following questions.
Activity 3
Choose 3 words from each category (verb, noun and adjective) from the table below.
| VERBS | NOUNS | ADJECTIVES |
|---|---|---|
| blame (sb/sth) | attention | available |
| focus | belief | delighted |
| object | capacity | different |
| persist | information | good/bad |
| suffer | problem | prejudiced |
| warn (sb) | reputation | suited |
Go to Linggle and search for the prepositions that follow each word you have chosen. To find the preposition for each word, you will need to type the word + prep. in the search box. Use the frequency information to help you choose which is correct – you can also click each result for more examples.
Activity 4
Activity 5
Discuss the following questions with your classmates.
- In this lesson, were you able to learn more about prepositions? If so, what did you learn?
- Did consulting a corpora tool, such as Linggle help you better understand how to use different prepositions?
- What was it like to use Linggle?
- Do you think you can use this tool to check other aspects of language?
