It is essential to include collocations, idioms and lexical phrases in vocabulary study. It helps students to build correctly complicated sentences in writings, develop ...
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It is essential to include collocations, idioms and lexical phrases in vocabulary study. It helps students to build correctly complicated sentences in writings, develop speaking, reading and listening skills comprehensively. They are important because they make your language sound natural. If you master them, your English will be more idiomatic, that is, more similar to the way it is spoken by native speakers. However, most of the learners find it difficult to remember them after a longtime because they are not used commonly, especially idioms. Therefore, I recommend that the teachers should attach them to some fun activities or contexts, which may help students memorize better. Moreover, learners should make sentences after being taught and use them regularly in communication. If learners have time, they can draw mind maps together with pictures about the topic including collocation, idioms and lexical phrases.
