3 Festive Collocations ELTP TV
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Hello and welcome. I'm Professor Winn, author of the englishlanguagetestprep.com blog.
Thank you for being with me today so we can review these three festive collocations .
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So let's go ahead and get started with these three festive collocations to improve your vocabulary.
We start off with a review of the collocations that we're going to cover in our broadcast for today.
And those three collocations are to date, back to number two. ageold tradition. And number three, raise your glasses.
Let's get started with the first collocation right now to date back to.
What does that mean exactly?
It's a verb to have existed since a particular time. That's its meaning to date back to. And here's our example. Goya's painting, El dos de mayo de 1808 in Madrid, dates back to the Napoleonic Wars in Europe.
To date back to.
Let's roll on number two - age-old tradition.
Have you heard of this one before?
It's a noun talking about a custom or a belief that existed for a long time.
For example:
An age-old tradition of students is to procrastinate before a test.
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Let's continue.
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And finally, our third idiom that we're looking at today.
All right, let's continue on with our third festive collocation .
Raise your glasses.
So here we have a verb expression to wish success and happiness. To raise your glasses.
Example: Janice just graduated from medical college.
Raise your glasses to her future success as a doctor.
Raise your glasses.
So as you can see, we have three festive collocations that are gonna help you to boost your score on the TOEFL, TOEIC, or IELTS exam.
Now, as you know, the idioms are more informal English, so you would only want to be able to use them on the speaking test.
So let's recap what we have looked at for today.
Number 1: date back to
Number 2: age old tradition, and
Number 3: raise your glasses.
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