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U1.4: Great places to be - Vocabulary: Collocations & prepositional phrases

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We often use the same adjectives and nouns together. We call these adjective-noun collocations.
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Work in pairs. Look at the photos and complete the captions by writing an adjective from the box below in each gap. If you need more than one adjective, put the more general one first.
Other Answer Choices:
quiet
main
pretty
tiny
large
tall
suburban
industrial
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Complete the phrases below describing places where people can live by writing a preposition from the box in each gap. In several cases, more than one answer is possible (choose the word in alphabetical order.)
  1. __________ / __________ a river
  2. __________ / __________the city centre
  3. __________ the country
  4. __________ / __________ / __________ the desert
  5. __________ / __________ the mountains
  6. __________ / __________ the outskirts
  7. __________ / __________the sea
  8. __________ the suburbs
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Work in small groups. Look at this sentence.
I live in a pretty village in the mountains.

Take turns to write about:
  • where you live;
  • where you would prefer to live, and why.

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