LESSON 1A VOCABULARY AND SPEAKING
- fold your arms – defensive
- purse your lips – irritated
- furrow your brow – concentrating
- drum your fingers – impatient
- rub your hands together – excited
- tilt your head – attentive
- cross your ankles – nervous
- tent your fingers – in control
- wrinkle your nose – distasteful
- stroke your chin – indecisive
ACTIVE VOCABULARY | Collocations
- Collocations are words that naturally go together.
- A common collocation is verb + noun (or verb + pronoun + noun), e.g., tilt your head.
- Strong collocation is when the connection between two words is fixed – a word is only used as part of one or a few collocations, e.g., She pursed her lips. He clapped his hands.
- Words that collocate with a lot of other words form weak collocations. For example, tilt collocates with body parts (head, chin, mouth), but also with boat, chair, plane.