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COLLOCATION DILEMMAS
8
Vocabulary: collocations
You are a strict vegetarian and have been invited to your partner’s parents’ home for the first time. You are having
dinner and you discover just before you start eating the vegetable soup that it has meat in it. Do you
follow your
principles
and explain you can’t eat it or say nothing?
You are an unemployed actor and a man selling pirate DVDs comes to your restaurant table and offers you some
recent films. You know that your money will help criminal gangs and won’t help the film industry but you want to
see the films. Do you
go against your principles
and buy them?
You are a police officer and you stop a motorist driving very fast, fast enough for them to lose their licence for a
year. The motorist is a top politician and they offer you $2,000 to let them drive away without punishment.
Do you
stick to your principles
and not take the bribe?
You know your son has been involved in a bank robbery. The police are looking for the robbers. If you tell the
police, your son may never speak to you again but if you don’t, you could also be in trouble. It’s a big dilemma.
What
decision
do you
come to
?
You’ve been offered a job in a distant foreign country for three years. You don’t like the country, the climate, the
people or the food but you will get double your present salary. After
weighing up the pros and cons
what do
you decide to do?
Your rich boy/girlfriend wants to marry you. If you do this, you would never worry about money again and would
have a very comfortable life. However, you don’t really love them. You
compare the advantages and the
disadvantages
. What’s your decision?
You’ve been trying to sell your house for six months and need to sell it within one week or your dream of
emigrating to Australia won’t happen. You have a cash offer but for twenty-five per cent less than your price.
Do you
postpone the decision
to sell to this buyer or accept the offer?
You’ve just crashed your partner’s new car. When you see them, they are in a really bad mood and you can’t
tell them but if you don’t tell them soon it could makes things worse. How much longer do you
put off the
decision
?
You made a big mistake at work which cost your company $10,000. Your boss blames your colleague and they
will lose their job if you don’t say something. If you say nothing, there is no way they could ever find out it was
your mistake. After
examining the situation
carefully, what do you decide?
TRUTH
TRUTH
LIE
TRUTH
TRUTH
LIE
TRUTH
TRUTH
LIE
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