芝浦工業大学英語総合1B special post - a word learning technique - seeing word patterns (collocations)

Hello to all my Eigo Sogo students!

Image "Buy Tickets Words with fireworks" courtesy of Stuart Miles/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net

How are you? I would like to review what I showed you earlier in class - noticing word patterns.

Look at the picture above - buy tickets. "Buy" and "tickets" come together so often that we can think of them as a unit. This kind of unit is called a collocation - a word combination where one word often comes with another word in a pattern.

Ticket is a noun (名詞). Let's look at some more examples with ticket:

VERB [動詞] + ticket                   sell tickets                     (sell a ticket)                  lose a ticket                  punch a ticket                  give away tickets                 (give away a ticket)                  purchase tickets                 (purchase = 購入する)	ADJECTIVE [形容詞] + ticket    cheap ticket(s)   expensive ticket(s)   affordable ticket(s)   discounted tickets   reasonably-priced ticket(s)   hard-to-get ticket(s)
Ticket + other NOUN                Ticket price                Ticket gate                Ticket sales                Ticket machine                Ticket collection	Other NOUN + ticket   Movie ticket   Concert ticket   Parking ticket   Meal ticket   Dry cleaning ticket

HOMEWORK
Look for collocations from Reading 2. Make a list of them for yourself, and share in the class next week.

See you next time!