Give / Do / Make
The minister ______ a rousing speech at the end of the conference.
made
The first time Carla went skiiing was last Monday.
NEVER
Carla_______ last Monday.
had never been/gone skiing before/until
Lingustics has undergone two great revolutions in the past 70 years. In the late 1950s Noam Chomsky ____ that all languages were built on an underlying _____ grammar embedded in human genes.
THEORY
UNIVERSE
Theorised
universal
COLLOCATION: Lee has been working hard because he needs to ____ better professional qualifications.
get
Carrie sat through the entire meeting without ____ a single suggestion to solve the problem.
making
The opportunity to study at university should be open to everyone.
BE
Everyone _________ to study at university.
should be given the opportunity-chance
A second shift in linguistics - an _____ of interest in small and endangered languages - has focused on the _______ of linguistic experience.
EXPLODE
VARY
explosion
variety
Having lived in Chile for seven years, Philippe has a perfect _____ of Spanish.
C
command
Fergus ___ a pretty bad impression in Saturday's match, so the manager is ___ him just one last chance or he'll be dropped from the team.
made
giving
I received some very useful advice from Gustavo. FOUND
I __________ me very useful.
I found the advice Gustavo gave me very useful
Field linguists are more interested in the _____ that make each language unique and the ways that culture can be ____ in a language's form.
CHARACTER
INFLUENCE
characteristics
influential
With a Japanese father and a French mother, Motoko is completely ________. B
bilingual
Patsy is just ___ a phone call at the moment, so she'll be with us in a sec.
If you'd just ____ me the details, I'll take a note of them and pass them to the person responsible.
making
give
Without a receipt, the will not return your money
REFUND
They will not _____ you have the receipt.
give you a refund/ refund your money unless
At present some 85 percent of languages have yet to be documented. Understanding them can only ____ our comprehension of what is similar in all languages.
RICH
enrich
I prefer to _________ the language while I'm visiting the country rather than going to classes.
Phrasal verb
pick up
If you're not completely satisfied with the result, we'll ___ you a full refund.
I never expected to see you at a concert because the last time we met, you ____ me the impression that you didn't like classical music.
give
gave
We were all favourably impressed with Paola's lecture.
FAVOURABLE
The lecture ____ on all of us.
Different languages highlight the range of human experience, revealing that aspects of life that we have a _____ to think of as true of all languages, such as our epxerience of time, number or colour, are in fact quite _____. In the Siberian language Tuva, for example, the past is always spoken of as ahead of and the future is behind one's back.
TEND
CHANGE
tendency
changeable
Mari's English is virtally perfect although her _____ is Greek.
(6, 6)
COLLOCATION: I don't understand you. What point are you tring to ____?
MOTHER TONGUE
MAKE