Using Collocation to Boost Your IELTS Score-Key Word:Behaviour

Key Word:Behaviour

Verb+Behaviour

1. Use the correct form of these verbs:

1. Go and report to the head teacher immediately. I’m not standing for this sort of behaviour in my classroom any longer. I simply will not______your appalling behaviour.
2. An insecure family environment can only______a child’s behaviour in a negative way.
3. I don’t know why you’re______my behaviour! You’re not exactly perfect yourself.
4. How do you______her behaviour at the party last night? She was rude to almost everybody she talked to, which isn’t like her. I’m certainly baffled by her behaviour.
5. The President has______his behaviour, but many people are unwilling to accept that and feel that he should resign.
6. Terry can be a real nuisance in class, but I must say his behaviour has______a lot recently.
7. You can______your behaviour, but you can’t______your personality!

Common Adjective Collocations

2. Use the following adjectives in these sentences:

1. The crowd booed when the national anthem was played at the beginning of the football match. I find that sort of behavior______. It’s completely unacceptable.
2. My mother’s problem is she washes her hands over and over again. As you can imagine, this kind of______behaviour can be difficult to live with.
3. The latest studies seem to show that computer games encourage______and aggressive behaviour in young children.
4. Our chemistry teacher is everyone’s idea of the mad scientist. His behaviour is somewhat______. It’s hard to predict what he’ll do next.
5. It is important that teachers reward______behaviour.
6. There’s no question that playing loud music after midnight in a flat is______behaviour.

Noun+Preposition+Behaviour

3. Complete the sentences below with these nouns:

1. Our school demands the highest______of behaviour from its students.
2. I don’t understand why Maria just got up and walked out. Did she offer any______for her strange behaviour?
3. Nobody should behave like that in public. There’s no______for that kind of behaviour.
4. Leaving her to walk home alone so late at night was outside the______of acceptable behaviour. I think you should apologise to her.
5. Since our daughter started her treatment, there’s been a definite______in her behaviour. She’s much less aggressive at school.
6. The boy next door is always in trouble with the police. However, when he was at school, he was a______of good behaviour.

Go back and underline the complete expressions including the prepositions.

Answer Key

Ex 1:

1. tolerate
2. affect
3. criticising
4. explain
5. apologised for
6. improved
7. change, change

Ex 2:

1. disgraceful
2. obsessive
3. violent
4. eccentric
5. good
6. anti-social

Ex 3:

1. standards
2. explanation
3. excuse
4. bounds
5. improvement
6. model

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