(ZIM) Power Vocab IELTS Speaking

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Unit 1: Introduction to Collocations, Phrasal Verbs & Idioms ......................

Unit 2: Education ........................................................................................

2.1. Technology in Education ..................................................................

2.2. Higher Education ..............................................................................

Unit 3: Work ...............................................................................................

3.1. Qualifications and Experience ..........................................................

3.2. Job Hopping ......................................................................................

Unit 4: The Environment .............................................................................

4.1 Environmental problems ...................................................................

4.2 Protecting endangered species .........................................................

Unit 5: Tourism ...........................................................................................

5.1. Tourism and the Environment ..........................................................

5.2. Culture and Travel ............................................................................

Unit 6: Transport .........................................................................................

6.1 Comparing forms of transport ...........................................................

6.2. Traffic problems ...............................................................................

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6 ANH NGỮ ZIM - Chuyên gia luyện thi IELTS cấp tốc

IELTS test-takers have heard a lot about phrasal verbs, idioms and collocations, and their seemingly ‘miraculous’ power in IELTS Speaking. So what are they? Do they indeed do magic, or are they over- rated? Is learning them a piece of cake or a real headache? An Idiom is, as defined in the Cambridge Dictionary, “a group ofwords in a fixed order that have a particular meaning that is different from the meanings of each word on its own.” So, like chalk and cheese has nothing to do with chalk and cheese, and there’s nothing flying in your digestive tract when you say I have butterflies in my stomach. Many idioms entail vivid images used as a metaphor for the thing you want to describe. Phrasal verbs consist of a base verb and two or three more words. The meaning of a phrasal verb is different from the mean- ing of a base verb. For example, to look after someone doesn’t mean to look at their backs, and to do up a house is, surprisingly, to repair and improve it. We can consider phrasal verbs as similar to idioms, although they are often considered separate concepts in many books for teaching purposes. A collocation is a combination of words that naturally go together. We ‘make a decision’, not ‘do a decision’. ‘Large’ and ‘huge’ are similar in some instanc- es, but only ‘huge’ collocates, or naturally goes with, the noun ‘advantage’ (a huge advantage). A great combination of a ‘V + Adj + N’ collocation is to ‘offer distinct advantages’. The boundary between a collocation and an idi- om is loose; in other words, some dictionaries may consider a phrase an idiom, but others see it as a collocation. The phrase ‘at risk’ is classified as an idiom in Oxford Learners’ Dictionary, but a collocation in Cambridge Dictionary.