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A corpus is an easy way of making exercises to help your students with multi-word verbs.
Type look into the search box, and youll get a concordance screen which can be
downloaded as a table. Then you can pick out the phrasal verbs like this:
It will be amazing! ! I am
with it! After several days which I spend
to prepare the article well, please? I am
above show that sport is still something
the International Students' sports club. I
I passed my degree in Tourism, I am now
qualities will give me a positive answer. I am
Sales Manager for Europe are for example to
We have also asked our soliticors to
want me for an interview at any time. I
suggestions for this year's programme. I have
travelling. First, I went out the house and I
she told me and gave me a dictionary to
future, plan to have kids I will try to
reacted very nervously but Mark and Angela
expensive for me - in this shop I started to
has done in our company for that. May you
Economics for four years. So, I started
to be very close to their grandchildren,
want to read at the begining but when I
clock. If you need more informations you can
company. I also as I wrote earlier want you to
They're so pretty! I
looking
looking
looking
looking
look
looking
looking
look
look
look
looked
looked
look
look
looked
look
look
looking
looking
looked
look
look
look
I am old enough to
In this essay, I will
that time. Now, I'm twenty-three and when I
look
look
looked
e) for a job.
You could also show your students the concordance, and ask them
(a) to discover what sort of words you use look forward and look up with. They will
notice the way look forward is used in the phrase looking forward to hearing from
you, and that look up is used when you are literally looking up (eg at the sky), or
when youre finding information (in an agenda, or dictionary) as well as in the sense
of admire.
(b) whether they can find any errors in any of the concordance lines (the concordance
above is taken from a corpus of learner data, like the Cambridge English Profile
Corpus; so there are errors in it). This can be a way of preventing students from
making certain types of common errors, by raising their awareness of the things that
learners can get wrong!
Finally if your students have access to the internet, they could follow this up by trying to find
their own examples of multi-word verbs involving look (or a different word, like put) in a
corpus or online.