verb patterns/ dependent prepositions/ verb plus preposition collocations
Inside Out Upper Intermediate Unit 2
You will act as a host family and have a pair of teenagers in your house. Use the sentence stems below to decide on your policies and feelings, starting with any you like.
- We’d insist __________________________________________________________
- We’d approve ________________________________________________________
- We’d disapprove ______________________________________________________
- We’d never forgive them ________________________________________________
- We’d object __________________________________________________________
- We wouldn’t object ____________________________________________________
- We’d worry __________________________________________________________
- We’d prevent them ____________________________________________________
- We’d tell them to always apologise ________________________________________
- We’d apologise ______________________________________ in our country/ house
- We’d want them to concentrate ___________________________________________
- We wouldn’t let them____________________________________________________
- We’d expect them ______________________________________________________
- We’d make them _______________________________________________________
- We’d tell them not ______________________________________________________
- We’d warn them not ____________________________________________________
- We’d let them _________________________________________________________
- We’d encourage them ___________________________________________________
- We’d ask them ________________________________________________________
- We’d ask them not _____________________________________________________
- We’d want them _______________________________________________________
- We’d _________________________ unless they could afford to pay for it themselves
- We’d offer ___________________________________________________________
- We’d attempt _________________________________________________________
- We’d try to get them used _______________________________________________
- We wouldn’t mind ______________________________________________________
- We’d avoid ___________________________________________________________
- We’d remind them ______________________________________________________
- We’d teach them _______________________________________________________
- We’d try to inspire them __________________________________________________
- We’d order them _______________________________________________________
- We’d keep ____________________________________________________________
- We’d consider _________________________________________________________
- We’d aim _____________________________________________________________
- We’d refuse ___________________________________________________________
Try to find rules that another group hadn’t thought of but agree with. Then ask about any which are difficult to complete, doing so as a class each time.
Find verbs above which take these prepositions: about, for, from, of, on, to
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