🖇Collocations with
“DECISION”


🅰️ VERBS 🅰️

🍃make a decision🍃

🔘Example: I want to think about it a bit longer before I make a decision.

🍃take a decision🍃

🔘Meaning: make an important or formal decision

🔘Example: I fully accept the decision taken by the committee.

🍃reach/come to/arrive at a decision🍃

🔘Meaning: make a decision after a lot of thought

🔘Example: We hope they will reach their decision as soon as possible.

🍃regret a decision🍃

🔘Meaning: wish you had not made a particular decision

🔘Example: I was already regretting my decision to go on holiday with him.

🍃reconsider a decision🍃

🔘Meaning: think about changing a decision you have made

🔘Example: He said he wasn't prepared to reconsider his decision.

🍃reverse a decision🍃

🔘Meaning: change a decision

🔘Example: They want him to reverse his decision to quit.

🍃overrule/overturn a decision🍃

🔘Meaning: officially change a decision by another person or group

🔘Example: A director of the company had overruled that decision.

🍃postpone a decision🍃

🔘Meaning: not make a decision until later

🔘Example: The government has postponed its decision about when to hold the election.

🅱️ ADJECTIVES 🅱️

🍂an important decision🍂

🔲Example: My father made all the important decisions.

🍂a big decision🍂

🔲Meaning: an important decision

🔲Example: Marriage is a big decision.

🍂a major decision🍂

🔲Meaning: very important

🔲Example: The government now has some major decisions to make.

🍂a difficult/hard/tough decision🍂

🔲Example: In the end I took the difficult decision to retire early.

🍂a good decision🍂

🔲Example: It was a good decision to change the name of the product.

🍂a bad decision🍂

🔲Example: I think he made a bad decision.

🍂the right decision🍂

🔲Example: She chose to study Engineering and it was definitely the right decision.

🍂the wrong decision🍂

🔲Example: I thought I'd made the wrong decision marrying Jeff.

🍂a conscious/deliberate decision🍂

🔲Meaning: one that you have thought about clearly

🔲Example: Belinda had made a conscious decision to have a baby.

🍂a clear/firm decision🍂

🔲Meaning: a definite one

🔲Example: It's now time to come to a clear decision on this.

🍂a final decision🍂

🔲Meaning: one that will not be changed

🔲Example: The council will make a final decision in four months.

🍂a snap decision🍂

🔲Meaning: one that you make extremely quickly

🔲Example: Police officers often have to make snap decisions on how to act.

🍂a controversial decision🍂

🔲Meaning: that people disagree about

🔲Example: The history of the law is full of controversial decisions.

🍂a hasty decision🍂

🔲Meaning: one that you make without enough thought

🔲Example: Don't let yourself be forced into making hasty decisions.

🍂a joint decision🍂

🔲Meaning: one that two people make together

🔲Example: Jo and I made a joint decision that we should separate.

🍂a collective decision🍂

🔲Meaning: one that a number of people make together

🔲Example: Society should take collective decisions about individual rights and responsibilities.

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✨NEW Phrasal Verbs✨


🌼 bin someone/something off 🌼

🍃Meaning:
(informal) to discard someone or something, used especially in the context of removing someone from a job/position, or terminating a relationship

🍃Example:
They made him captain when Jones was binned off for missing training.

🌼 page out 🌼

🍃Meaning:
(informal) to daydream

🍃Example:
Can you repeat that? I paged out for a minute.

🌼 geek out 🌼

🍃Meaning:
(informal) to suddenly start speaking in technical language

🍃Example:
Just excuse me while I geek out for a couple of minutes.

🔺geeked-out
🍃Meaning:
(adjective) equipped with a lot of electronic/computational devices

🍃Example:
I was sufficiently geeked-out for the trip, with a laptop, PDA and camera phone.

🌼 big something up 🌼

🍃Meaning:
(informal):

🅰️ to praise or recommend something, to make something sound exciting

🍃Example:
I know I sound like I'm bigging it up, but it was a great film.

🅱️ “big it up” : to enjoy yourself in a social situation in a way that makes other people notice you

🍃Example:
The lads were really bigging it up at the local club.

🌼 vague something up 🌼

🍃Meaning:
(informal) to make something seem less clear or detailed

🍃Example:
I vagued up certain parts of the story.


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🌐Get+used to+verb +ing (gerund) for a process of change🌐

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🌎 OCCIDENT 🌎

Oc‧ci‧dent /ˈɒksədənt, ˈɒksɪdənt noun

The Occident literary the western part of the world, especially Europe and the Americas ⇨ Orient

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LOOK 🆚 LOOK LIKE

🔅Look+adjective

🔅Look like+adjective +noun

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📖 Reading Practice 📖


🍔Difficult Customer🍔


⚪️Good evening. My name is Fabio. I’ll be your waiter for tonight. May I take your order?

⚫️No, I’m still working on it. This menu isn’t even in English. What’s good here?

⚪️ For you sir, I would recommend spaghetti and meatballs.

⚫️Does it come with coke and fries?

⚪️ It comes with either soup or salad and a complimentary glass of lemonade, sir.

⚫️I’ll go with the spaghetti and meatballs, salad and the lemonade.

⚪️Excellent choice. Your order will be ready soon.

⚫️How soon is soon?

⚪️Twenty minutes?

⚫️You know what? I’ll just go grab a burger across the street.

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🔘Key Vocabulary

• grab - get quickly
• go with - to choose, pick
• would recommend - suggest
• complimentary - free
• still working on - not yet completed, need more time


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💺CHAIRS


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🍽KITCHEN UTENSILS🍽


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🍃PHRASAL VERBS🍃

“ EMOTIONS”

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🍀 Prepositional Phrases That Act As Adverbs 🍀

They modify:

• Verbs
• Adjectives
• Adverbs

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An interesting application for English learners!!

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BUILD 🆚 CONSTRUCT

• Build (irregular verb) = to create or develop something gradually.

• Construct ( regular verb ) = to draw a line or shape in geometry.

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#idioms
Speak of the devil

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🔴 Daily Conversations:

♦️5. Directing a Conversation (Part 4 of 9)

🔸5.14 When you want to repeat your point

🔹Let me repeat myself.
🔹Allow me to repeat myself.
🔹To repeat,…
🔹To reiterate,…
🔹As I've said,…
🔹Like I said,…
🔹As I was saying,…
🔹I don't want to sound like a broken record, but…
______________

🔸5.15 When you want to provide additional explanation

🔹Let me explain.
🔹Let me elaborate.
🔹Let me give you some details.
🔹Let me tell you a little more about it.
🔹Let me clarify that.
🔹Allow me to clarify.
🔹Let me rephrase that.
🔹Let me make myself clear.
🔹Let me make myself perfectly clear.
🔹Let's talk about it.
______________

🔸5.16 When you rephrase your point

🔹What I mean is…
🔹What I'm saying is…
🔹What I'm trying to say is…
🔹In other words,…
🔹To put it another way,…
______________

🔸5.17 When you provide an example

🔹For example,…
🔹For instance,…
🔹To give you an example,…
🔹Let me give you an example.
🔹Let me illustrate.
🔹As a case in point,…
______________

🔸5.18 When you announce a conclusion

🔹To conclude, we have achieved our objectives.
🔹All in all, this was a useful discussion.
🔹All things considered, this year was a success.
🔹On balance, we made profit this year.
🔹In any case, you'll get what you want.
🔹One way or the other, the project has been completed.
🔹Either way, his innocence was proven.
🔹That brings us to the main point.
🔹Which brings me to the main point.
______________

🔸5.19 When you rephrase the speaker's point

🔹What you mean is…
🔹What you're saying is…
🔹If I understand you,…
🔹If I am hearing you correctly,…
🔹So, you think that…
🔹Strictly speaking,…

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🍃Phrasal verbs with LOOK🍃

• Look into
• Look up
• Look over/through
• Look in
• Look on
• Look away
• Look back

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🍃Phrasal verbs with TAKE🍃

• Take over
• Take in
• Take up
• Take off
• Take out
• Take on
• Take down
• Take after
• Take back

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🍃 DO or MAKE activity 🍃


✨ Fill in the blanks with “Do”, “Make” or either of them:


1️⃣ Has he agreed to .......... the work?

do
make
Either could be used here

2️⃣ Have you .......... what I told you?

made
done
did

3️⃣ The company .......... bicycles and tricycles.

makes
does
make

4️⃣ Why are you always .......... trouble?

making
doing
Either could be used here

5️⃣ Will this tablecloth …….... or should I use another?

do
make
Either could be used here

6️⃣ He …….... a speech on the occasion.

made
did
Either could be used here

7️⃣ They …….... the kitchen and the bathrooms every day.

do
make
Either could be used here

8️⃣ I won’t go and you can’t …….... me.

do
done
make

9️⃣ Laws are …….... to be obeyed.

made
did
done

1️⃣0️⃣ Last summer we …….... ten countries in one month.

did
done
made

1️⃣1️⃣ Hurry or we won’t …….... the train.

do
done
make

1️⃣2️⃣ When buying a bag, look closely at its ..........

do
make
Either could be used here

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am‧biv‧a‧lent ▶️/æmˈbɪvələnt/

🔘Meaning: not sure whether you want or like something or not
🔘Ex.:We are both somewhat ambivalent about having a new car.

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🤔 Do you make any of these mistakes? 🤔


❌ Every students like the teacher.
✅ Every student likes the teacher.

❌ I look forward to meet you.
✅ I look forward to meeting you.

❌ I like very much ice cream.
✅ I like ice cream very much.

❌ I have visited Paris last weekend.
✅ I visited Paris last weekend.

❌ The woman which works here is from Spain.
✅ The woman who works here is from Spain.

❌ She’s married with a lecturer.
✅ She’s married to a lecturer.

❌ He was boring in the class.
✅ He was bored in the class.

❌ I must to call him immediately.
✅ I must call him immediately.


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