In this paper, at first, I will try to show the importance of the knowledge of collocations for ELE students. Insufficient knowledge of collocations may cause phrases that can be grammatically correct but sound strange like lluvia pesada. By learning collocations, the students can expand their vocabulary and improve their capacity of expression. Therefore, it is useful to develop a strategy to facilitate the learning of collocations. I think that the parallels between Spanish and English could improve the teaching of collocations and I have established teaching materials based on this analogy. The second objective of this paper is to present it and show the distinctive feature of these materials. I will also show data that support the validity of the strategy, the data that indicate that the majority of the collocations in Spanish and the corresponding ones in English are lexically parallel. Keywords: Collocation, English, comparison, teaching materials, corpus.