4.* Give corresponding verbs or nouns to the following words:

to amaze, to complicate, to compose, to fasten, to infect, to innovate, to isolate, to lengthen, to tolerate, to weaken, wide, deep, to live, to believe, to practise, food, to devise, to shelve, blood, full, gold, progress, contract, produce, conduct.

5.* Form adjectives from the given nouns:

bride, bush, corruption, modesty, monotony, mythology, pain, pride, reluctance, vanity, blood, brother, earth, father, friend, heaven, home, milk, mother, night, water, woman, man, truth, time, cloud, hand, life, room, war.

6. Explain the difference between the meanings of the following words produced from the same root by means of different affixes. Translate them into Russian: watery – waterish, embarrassed – embarrassing, colourful – coloured, respected – respectful – respectable, manly – mannish, exhaustive – exhausting, touching – touchy, expressivity – expressiveness, objectivity – objectiveness.

7. Read the following sentences. Translate the italisized words into Russian.

1. In a thoughtless moment he put his hand in his pocket. 2. She seemed resistless. 3. He continued in his honeyed voice. 4. The coffee was so sweetish, it made her shudder. 5. He passed a curtained corridor. 6. The boy was still standing there, peering trainward. 7. These professions are only in seasonal demand. 8. Can’t you see she is edgy after being up all night? 9. “No sense in getting panicky,” she assured herself. 10. She was more spiteful than all the rest put together. 11. His words were playful but his look became grave.

8. Find the cases of conversion in the sentences, identify the part of speech of the converted word.

1. She is an awful tease. 2. The boy happened to be a cheat. 3. She is the well-known gossip of the town. 4. The night watch rushed to his help. 5. Then followed an interminable wait. 6. His long hunt for the book resulted in a failure. 7. The station is a half-an-hour walk from our house. 8. Christine had the run of Mrs. Herbert’s kitchen. 9. With his heavy bag and torn shoes he looked like a tramp. 10. He was certainly on the move.

9. Arrange the following compounds of:

a) their structure (compounds proper, compound-shortened, compounds where one of the constituents is a compound stem and derivational ones):

eye-catching, level-headed, groundbreaking, e-commerce, mind-boggling, statesman, mouth-watering, h-bag, blue-eyed, oil-rich, market-led, bedridden, dot-com, A-bomb, b-emission, wastepaper-basket, maths-mistress, iphone, domainadmin, Xmas;

b) degree of semantic independence of components (coodinative and subordinative compounds):

high-ranking, goody-goody, night-school, willy-nilly, bittersweet, go-go, waistline, pepper-and-salt, nightmare, Anglo-Asian, down-and-out, gray-green, actor-director, she-pony, acid-sweet, dogbite, boogie-woogie, dead-cheap;

c) linking element, the means of composition used to link the two ICs together (neutral, morphological and syntactical):

semi-detached, tradesman, man-of-war, blackboard, writingtable, record-breaking, handicraft, mother-of-pearl, handiwork, bread-and-butter, come-and-go, sleepingcar, microchip, doomsayer, workaholic, speedometer, down-and-out, kinsman;

d) naming the referent (endocentric and exocentric):

mass-produced, cutthroat, pickpocket, law-abiding, turncoat, tallboy, earthquake, dog-show, honeymoon, stone-fruit, streamline, tick-tick, chow-chow, doghouse, white-collar, must-have, can-do, must-see, hands-on, heads-up, drive-by, hangover;

e) correlative relations with the system of free word-combinations (idiomatic and non-idiomatic):

star-studded, flatfoot, redcoat, darkroom, highbrow, time-consuming, sunrise, bluestocking, butterfly, cabman, killjoy, dreadnought, spoilsport, underworld, highlight, rent-a-car, butterfingers, night-cap, homeland.

10. Write into the gap the word from the list below that completes the abbreviation.

yuppy = young urban ____________ OPEC = Organisation of Petroleum Exporting _________________ GMF = genetically ____________ food HTML = hypertext markup _____________ ISP = internet service _____________ iTV = interactive ___________ PDA = personal digital ____________ M.C. = Master of ___________ radar = radio detecting and _____________ laser = light amplification by stimulated emission of ______________ NATO = North Atlantic Treaty _________________

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