Review: The Precision Core — IELTS Collocation: Use The Words That Belong Together

What You Should Now Control

Five things this chapter taught. Tick only what you could do under exam time, without a word list.

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Tick what you can do right now

The question the chapter opened with

Sort the Whole Chapter

Twenty items, mixed. Put each one back with the job it does.

Sort each item into the correct category

Reports what evidence shows

Names an influence

Reports someone else's view

Names the machinery

Fixed partnership

Unassigned

demonstrate

suggest

highlight

reveal

undermine

facilitate

determine

reinforce

contend

assert

dispute

maintain

framework

mechanism

initiative

procedure

pose a threat

raise awareness of

gain access to

place emphasis on

Questions From the Whole Chapter

Ten questions across the chapter. Every wrong option here is a sentence a Band 6.5 candidate has written.

Drawn across all five sprints, weighted towards the three that decide most marks: evidence verbs, influence verbs and the collocation spine.

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Which sentence would an examiner mark as a collocation error?

One Paragraph, Words From Every Lesson

A single Task 2 paragraph that needs an item from every part of this chapter.

Fill each gap with ONE word, unless the hint says otherwise. Read what the sentence claims before you choose — several gaps will accept a strong verb only if the sentence has earned it.

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Recent studies that access to green space in cities is linked to lower reported stress, though the evidence is correlational rather than causal. Urban planners that this justifies protecting parkland even where land values are high, while developers that the same land could house thousands of families. What is not in doubt is that the shortage of affordable housing the wellbeing of low-income residents, and that overcrowding health outcomes that are already poor. One that several cities have adopted is a minimum green-space requirement for new developments — a single rule rather than a whole for urban renewal. Local authorities should also greater emphasis on maintaining what already exists, since neglected parks a threat to exactly the residents who cannot travel to reach an alternative. Where councils have set out to awareness of local green space, usage has risen without any new land being bought at all.

Write One Paragraph Using the Chapter

Write one Task 2 body paragraph and find out which band your vocabulary is actually sitting at.

Write one full Task 2 body paragraph — around five sentences — using at least six items from this chapter.

Prompt: Some people believe that governments should invest heavily in public transport rather than in road building. Discuss this view.

Use at least six Chapter 1 items, from at least three of the five clusters:

evidence verbs · influence verbs · reporting verbs · method nouns · the collocation spine

Two things to check before you submit:

Does every evidence verb match the strength of the evidence you actually gave?
If you used a loaded influence verb — reinforce, facilitate, hinder, undermine — has the paragraph argued the judgement it contains?

Your body paragraph*

Around five sentences. Six or more chapter items.

Which chapter items did you use?*

Just the items, separated by commas.

Which Group of Verbs Is Still Weak?

Name the cluster you trust least, and get those items back first.

Learners can ask follow-up questions and keep the thread going.

Five clusters in this chapter:

evidence verbs · influence verbs · reporting verbs · method nouns · the collocation spine

Which one did you get wrong most often today?

Name it, and say in one sentence what actually goes wrong. There are only two possibilities, and they need different practice: either you cannot recall the item, or you recall it and pick the wrong one of a near-identical pair.

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