2. The Introduction of Oxford Collections Dictionary by Wang Dandan

3. The Preface The Preface  What is collocation?  Why is collocation important?  Why use a collocation dictionary The Introduction  A brief introduction  Collocations included  The way to use it  Other information

4. The Preface  What is collocation?  Collocation is the way words combine in a language to produce natural- sounding speech and writing.  For example: 大风 stronge wind 大雨 heavy rain 大雨 heavy rain

5. What is collocation?  Combinations of words in a language can be ranged on a cline from the totally free-see a man/car/book-to the totally fixed and idiomatic-not see the wood for the trees.  See a film→see a doctor →see danger (weak) (medium) (stroger) (weak) (medium) (stroger)

6. Why is collocation important?  Collocation runs through the whole of the English language.  It is very important in the exams.  A student who choose the best collocation will express himself much more clearly and be able to convey not just a general meaning, but something quite precise.

7. Why is collocation important?  Compare, for example, the following two sentences:  This is a good book and contains a lot of interesting details. 这是一本好书，里面有许多有趣的东西． 这是一本好书，里面有许多有趣的东西．  This is a fascinating and contains a wealth of historical details. 这是一本引人入胜的书，里头满是详尽的历史 资料． 这是一本引人入胜的书，里头满是详尽的历史 资料．

8. Why use a collocation dictionary?  A collocational dictionary covers the entire language (or a large part of it) on a word by word, collocation by collocation basis. It manages this by not attempting to account for every possible utterance, only for what is most typical.

9. Why use a collocation dictionary?  A collocation dictionary is also able to ‘pre- digest ’ a lot of the grammar involved,presenting collocates in their most typical from in context, even if this is not the usual dictionary citation form.  For example at the entry for baby,you will find the collocation be teething, reflecting the fact that this verb is always used in the progressive tenses.

10. Why use a collocation dictionary?  By covering the language systematically from A-Z, a collocation dictionary allows students to build up their own collocational competence on a ‘need-to-know’ basis, starting from the words they already know-or know in part.

11. The Introduction  A brief introduction  9000 headwords  150,000 collocations  50,000 natural examples from the 100-million-word British National Corpus  10 special pages

12. A brief introduction  English text originally published as Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English by Oxford University Press 2002  This English-Chinese edition published in association with Foreign Language Teaching and Presearch Press 2006

13. Collocations included in the dictionary  The full range of collocation from the fairly weak to the strongest –for around 9000 headwords including most of the commonest words in the language.  All the collocations be drawn from reliable data. The main source used was the 100-million-word British National Corpus.  British English was chosen. Consideration was also given to the kind of texts that students might wish to write.

14. The way to use the dictionary  The collocation in each entry are divided according to part of speech; within each part of speech section they are grouped according to meaning or category. The groups are arranged in an order that tries to be as intuitive as possible.

15. Other information in the dictionary  The dictionary also includes ten special pages on different topics such as business, meetings and sport. These pull together collocations from the different topics and can be used as the basis for topic work in class, or for brainstorming vocabulary for an essay, for example.

16.  Thanks for your attention!