週3 - ECA (Reading) II & (英語基礎表現) II (Super A)：コロケーション

Hello to my Super A reading and Eigokisohyougen students,

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

How are you? Here is a word learning technique for you. I posted this last semester, but I am reposting it again.

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 (コロケーション) - a word combination where one word comes with another word in a natural pattern.

Some word combinations you have seen so far in your textbooks - for example, amazing person, sensitive person, young people, difficult life - are examples of collocations. These cases are examples of adjective (形容詞) + noun (名詞) combinations. 

Let's look at the example in the picture at the top. Ticket is a noun (名詞). So let's look at some more examples with ticket:

Verb (動詞) + a ticket 

sell a ticket

lose a ticket

punch a ticket

give away a ticket

purchase a ticket

(purchase = 購入する)

Adjective (形容詞) + ticket(s) 

cheap ticket(s)

expensive ticket(s)

affordable ticket(s)

discounted ticket(s)

reasonably-priced ticket(s)
hard-to-get ticket(s)

Other noun used as an adjective + ticket(s)

Movie ticket(s)

Concert ticket(s)

Parking ticket(s)

Train ticket(s)
Subway ticket(s)

Dry cleaning ticket(s)

Ticket used as an adjective + other noun
Ticket price

Ticket gate

Ticket sales

Ticket taker

Ticket collection

Homework
Look at the unit you have read (Unit 10). On page 82 & 83, there is a section called "Looking at Words that Go Together." Do this section in your textbook, then try to think of other words that go with these words. You can use a dictionary if you have to. Write them in your notebooks. Make a list of these word combinations. 

This is something you can use in both your reading and writing. 

See you next time!