P3 Chinese collocations practice
Singapore Primary 3 Chinese, collocations (句子搭配): choose the verb or phrase that completes a sentence — 弹钢琴, 放风筝, 打篮球 — testing verb-object pairing and idiomatic usage. Everything here follows the MOE syllabus. You can try one set free without signing up, and it is marked as you go — get one wrong and the same point comes back asked a different way, so your child can make steady progress on word pairings. This page has 17 skill points and 65 questions.
What is tested in P3 collocations
In P3 and P4 this question mixes verb-object, subject-predicate and modifier pairings — 提高水平, 改正错误, 养成习惯 — testing collocations that belong to writing, where speech often puts it differently.
Common traps
- Near-synonym verbs take different objects: 提高 goes with 水平, 增加 goes with 数量.
- The spoken form and the written collocation differ, like 做作业 and 完成作业 in different sentences.
- Both words can attach, and only one suits what the sentence means.
How to practise
Record collocations by verb: one line per verb listing the nouns it can take. Keep the mistake book by verb too, so every miss on the same verb sits together.
P3 collocations · worked examples
如果我们不保持环境清洁，（ ）。
- ・反而让环境更干净
- ・就能引来美丽的蝴蝶
- ・所以大家都很开心
- ✓ 就会引来蚊子和苍蝇
Why: The answer is "就会引来蚊子和苍蝇" (it will attract mosquitoes and flies). If we do not keep the environment clean, it becomes dirty and attracts mosquitoes and flies. "就能引来美丽的蝴蝶" (attract beautiful butterflies) is wrong, a dirty place won't attract butterflies. "所以大家都很开心" (everyone will be happy) is wrong, people aren't happy in a dirty place. "反而让环境更干净" (make the environment cleaner instead) is wrong, not cleaning won't make it cleaner.
小和帮妈妈推车，妈妈笑着说：“你真是我的（ ）。”
- ・开心果
- ・大明星
- ✓ 好帮手
- ・小老师
Why: The correct answer is **好帮手**, which means "a good helper." This fits because Xiao He was helping his mother push the cart, so she is praising him for being capable and useful. The other options don't fit because **开心果** means "joy-bringer" (someone who makes others laugh), **小老师** means "little teacher," and **大明星** means "big star"—none of these describe someone who helps with a task.
为了庆祝国庆日，同学们（ ）。
- ✓ 用红白彩带布置课室
- ・到图书馆借故事书
- ・到食堂排队买午餐
- ・在课室里安静地复习
Why: The answer is "用红白彩带布置课室". 为了 states the purpose: to celebrate National Day, they should do something festive. Red and white are the colours of the Singapore flag, so decorating the classroom with red and white streamers is a way to celebrate. "到图书馆借故事书" is wrong because borrowing books is an everyday activity, not a celebration. "到食堂排队买午餐" is wrong because buying lunch happens every day and is not a celebration. "在课室里安静地复习" is wrong because revising is ordinary study, not a celebration.
Notice the settled expressions around you; pairings are mostly picked up by reading and listening.
Skill points on this page (17)
- 上L01·美丽的愿望 · 3 questions
- 上L03·我的好伙伴 · 8 questions
- 上L04·奇妙的变化 · 3 questions
- 上L05·难忘的一天 · 3 questions
- 上L06·是我不好 · 3 questions
- 上L07·留张便条 · 4 questions
- 上L08·我真能干 · 6 questions
- 下L11·环保小天使 · 2 questions
- 下L13·大家都用环保袋 · 5 questions
- 下L14·奇妙的动物 · 3 questions
- 下L15·华文真有趣 · 5 questions
- 下L16·学习要认真 · 3 questions
- 下L17·好孩子 · 4 questions
- 上L09·我有办法 · 3 questions
- 下L10·我住的地方真干净 · 4 questions
- 句子搭配 · 3 questions
- 句子搭配 · 3 questions
只要努力，（ ）。