Bringing Together Collocations from Academic, Professional and Social Contexts
NOTICE • VERIFY • CHOOSE • CREATE
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Strong collocational competence combines careful noticing, corpus verification and purposeful use. The final project asks learners to select expressions, justify decisions and communicate for a real audience.
Fluent language is not just a collection of individual words. It is the ability to choose natural combinations accurately, justify them with evidence and adapt them to a real communicative purpose.
Explore the readingLexiLink · Integrated Collocation Challenge and Final Project B2–C1 80 minutes
Use the final tasks to review collocations across topics, check your choices with SkELL and develop a short evidence-based project.
Teacher-facing timing plan. The sequence moves from lexical noticing and IELTS-style reading to contextual practice, SkELL verification and productive use.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to use B2+–C1 collocations for integrated collocation challenge and final project, distinguish close meanings, test language hypotheses with SkELL, and use expressions accurately in context.
Study each expression, its meaning and the synonyms that may fit a similar context. Compare the alternatives carefully: words may be close in meaning without being interchangeable in every sentence.
Read the text carefully or listen to it. Target collocations are shown in bold. The case study and its figures are fictional and created for learning purposes.
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A. On 15 September 2025, a fictional university launched a final-project module called Words in Action. Tutor Dr Nadia Karim asked 96 students to select a community issue and conduct research before proposing a response. The goal was to develop competence in using collocations across academic and professional contexts, not simply to memorise word lists.
B. One group chose public transport and access to education. After gathering interviews and checking local reports, they decided to evaluate evidence before making claims. Their first draft included several literal translations; tutor feedback asked them to provide reliable evidence for their claims and to revise a proposal when the wording did not fit the context.
C. A second group focused on online services and privacy. They recommended clearer consent notices and ways to protect personal data. Their team discussion exposed different views about convenience and risk. Rather than forcing agreement, members compared options and tried to reach a consensus on realistic recommendations, while agreeing to manage expectations about what a student project could change.
D. The third group investigated how a new pedestrian route might support local trade. It suggested ways to support local businesses and reduce environmental impact. During the presentation on 12 December 2025, the students present findings using examples and explained how they had used SkELL to test whether selected collocations were natural in context.
E. The module report, published on 20 January 2026, said that 82 of the 96 students submitted a final project by the deadline. Tutors noted improvements in collocation choice, but warned that one module could not prove long-term gains. Students were asked to reflect on progress, identify further priorities and take responsibility for continuing independent practice after the course ended.
Decide whether each statement agrees with the passage. Choose TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN.
Match each statement to paragraph A–E. Use each paragraph once.
Choose the best answer according to the passage.
Complete each expression using its meaning and the context; choose the word that makes a natural collocation.
Choose the missing word in each collocation. Read the whole expression, not just the blank.
Use sentence meaning and grammar to select a collocation that fits the context.
Choose the collocation that best fits the situation about integrated collocation challenge and final project, cultural identity or cooperation. Use the contextual meaning to decide; do not classify parts of speech.
Choose the expression that fits the situation and the meaning of the sentence.
Open SkELL. Search public transport, research findings, constructive feedback and ethical standards in Word Sketch. Compare authentic examples and meanings. Record two collocations, write an original sentence for each, add related expressions and explain how corpus evidence confirmed or changed your first hypothesis.
Three options in each question express similar meanings. Choose the one collocation that does NOT belong to the synonym group. All options are natural expressions; the odd one out is different in meaning.
Choose the collocation that matches the meaning described. All options are natural English expressions; use meaning rather than parts of speech.
These tests become progressively harder: recognise collocations, choose expressions in context, compare close meanings, and evaluate realistic situations involving integrated collocation challenge and final project. The practice score is reported separately from the 115-point lesson total.
Write at least 150 words for your final project. Choose one issue from your course, use at least 10 target collocations from different topic areas, justify three choices with context or SkELL evidence, and reflect on revisions. The 100-word target is recommended for full writing credit, but unfinished work can still be submitted.
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0 words — 150-word final-project target; no maximum
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Your name and group from the student profile above, your SkELL collocations and original sentences, related words, corpus notes, writing paragraph and available exercise scores will be collected in the teacher's spreadsheet.
Auto-scored sections: reading MCQ, True/False, paragraph matching, Matching, Sentence Completion, Odd One Out, Find the Collocate, Multiple Choice, Lexical Cloze and Collocation Repair (100 points total). SkELL cluster (10) and productive writing (5) are teacher-scored. Maximum lesson total: 115 points. The 24-point Progressive Lexical Test is submitted as a separate practice result and is not added to the lesson total.
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