Complete the table with the help of a dictionary (e.g. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English).
Task 1.
Complete the table with the help of a dictionary
(e.g. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English).
Слово
| Денотативное значение
| Коннотация
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| chair (n)
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| machine (n)
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| barrier (n)
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| nervous (adj)
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| quiet (adj)
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| drink (v)
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| laugh (v)
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| make(v)
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Animals
bat
elephant
shine dark light up sunny lighten darken
1. I could tell Maria was in a good mood by the………….smile on her face.
2. The little boy’s eyes……………..when he saw his daddy approaching.
Task 3.
1. Rewrite this poem with appropriate homophones.
Candidate for a Pullet Surprise by Mark Eckman and Jerrold H. Zar
I have a spelling checker, It came with my PC. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Task 4.
1. Select the word in each set that completes the sentence appropriately.
Aisle - isle
He grew up on the …… of Elba.
I quickly walked down the ……… and took my seat.
Bass - base
He sang …… in the church choir.
I think we need a new …… for that lamp.
Blew - blue
Her house is painted …….
She …….a lot of bubbles at her birthday party.
Coarse - course
The fabric is rather ……..
The English ……. will begin next week.
Creak - creek
The ……. winds through the beautiful valley.
The doors in the house all ……..
Dear - deer
My ……. Richard, you just don't understand!
We saw three ……on our hike in the mountains.
Foreword - forward
We moved ………. in the line.
Timothy Leary wrote the ………. to Ken's book.
Greece - grease
He put some …….. on the wheel.
……… is considered the birthplace of western philosophy.
Heal - heel
I hurt my …… playing tennis.
Doctors …… thousands of patients a year.
Knot - naught - not
He tied a ……. to secure the rope.
His efforts came to ……..
Leased - least
She was the …… successful of the candidates.
They ……. the office for three months.
Mail - male
His ….. friends are crazy!
I got a lot of ….. today.
Patience - patients
Success requires a lot of ……...
There are too many ……. waiting in the emergency room.
Plain - plane
The ……… took off at six in the morning.
The food was rather ……. in England.
Most cars have some ……. in their body.
2. Choose the word in parentheses that completes each sentence correctly.
1. She worked harder (than, then) she had ever worked before.
2. The dentist told me to shut/close my mouth.
3. I didn’t know what to do when I got into my car and couldn’t start/begin the engine.
1. I don’t have ambitions to………….a lot of money, I just want to be happy in life.
2. Jack has already…………….a very good reputation as a talented lawyer.
3. Kim has…………. several prizes for her singing.
1. Choose the opposite word.
1. high
deep, little, small, low
2. …
Task 7.
1. Write numbers next to these suffixes according to which part of speech they usually indicate. A few belong in more than one category. Give examples.
2. Match a prefix with a word to make a new word. Then choose the appropriate…
clue
noun
1. s/he takes photographs
2. s/he plays the guitar
3. it washes dishes
4. the state of…
2. Add a correct prefix to the following words.
1……………dependent
2……………polite
3……………do
…
5. Make adjectives from the following nouns.
intelligence
ugliness
carelessness
width
…
Example: He's a very honest man. ...dishonest
1. I'msure she's discreet.
2. He's very efficient.
Example: ВВС The British Broadcasting Corporation
The UN Unesco c/o Rd ID BSc FBI Fr ext. PIN e.g. asap dep. RSVP arr. MP CD
… 2. What are the full forms of these shortened words?
Thx
Im good thx
duz ne1know how 2 make carrot cake?
thx 4 ur msg. how r u?
im fine. c u @ work
Gtg
Brb
J4f
I k%d meet u @ 7
ILU
Ttyl
C u l8er
CSL
u r gr8!
u r 2 cute 2 be 4gotten!
GF
BB
Task 11.
There are borrowings from a wide range of languages. For example, from Japanese, tycoon, karate, origami, judo, futon and bonsai. From Arabic,…
A If the vowel sound in an onomatopoeic word is short, it usually signifies a short, sharp sound. If it is long (indicated in the International… B Certain combinations of letters have particular sound associations in… gr-at the beginning of a word can suggest something unpleasant or miserable, e.g. groan[make a deep sound forced out…
APPENDIX
Как видно из таблицы, в каждой из трех пар общим является логическое значение, связанное с предметом сообщения (денотатом), а дополнительные оттенки…
a promise (to give/keep/break one's word); a conversation (to have a word with)
sweat
perspiration
hard …
1. Technically, 10 Downing Street is the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, not the Prime Minister.…
Паронимия и парономазия.Способность паронимов к смешению в речи привела к тому, что под термином «паронимия» нередко объединяются два понятия -…
adapt and adopt
adverse and averse
advice and advise
V. Prefixes are often used to give adjectives a negative or an opposite… • in- becomes im- before a root beginning with 'm' or 'p', e.g. immature, impatient, impartial, improbable. Similarly…
Some abbreviations are read as individual letters.
WHO[W-H-O] World Health Organisation
IDIdentity [an identity card or passport]
Within a written text some abbreviations are used as notes to organise the language and give extra information to the reader.
etc./et'setra/ and so on [Latin et cetera]
i.e. (1-Е): that is to say [Latin id est]