Форма экзаменационного билета Экзаменационный билет №

1. Word-formation in Modern English.

2. Lexicography. Learner's dictionaries

3. Do the given assignment.

Примерная форма вопроса № 3 (практическое задание)

Read the text. Explain how the underlined words are formed.

I

She sped along the familiar roadway, seemingly borne on by some force other than mechanical – some unwonted energy, a stubborn impulse.

How far, and how long did she go? She did not know; she did not care. The country around her grew unfamiliar. She was on a rough unfrequented road, where the birds in the wayside bushes seemed unafraid. She could perceive no human habitation; an old field, a stretch of wood, great trees bending thick-leaved branches and flinging long, inviting shadows aslant the road; the weedy smell of summer. She was alone with nature.

II

She knew that he loved her – a frank, blustering fellow, who had no desire to conceal his feelings. For two weeks past he had sought her society eagerly and persistently. She was confidently waiting for him to declare himself and she meant to accept him. The rather insignificant and unattractive Brantain was enormously rich, and she liked and required the entourage which wealth could give her.

III

1.Look up the words given below in your monolingual dictionary. Say, what the denotational meaning of each of them is. Do they carry any connotation? In case they do, identify the connotational component of meaning of these words;

a) well-known, celebrated, notorious;

b) to glance, to peer, to stare.

Illustrate their use by examples of your own.

2.Carry out a morphemic analysis of the words given below:

carefulness, unforgettable, disobedience, unladylike, cranberry, unanswerable, black, receive.

3. Look at the meanings of the words in bold in the given contexts. Are they motivated or non-motivated? What is their type of motivation?

a) His piggish nature really annoys me.

b) Look at the leaflet I was given near the metro station. It seems to be advertising some cosmetics

c) These hand-made cups are very expensive.

d)There is a wall of misunderstanding between us.

Translate the sentences into Russian.

4.Combine the prefixes given below with the appropriate derivational base from the list. What part of speech do they form?

Dis-, il-, non-, un-, im-, in-, de- , a-, ir- .

known, agree, perfect, valid, odorize, militarization, smoker, ability, pure, purity, resistance, professionally, intelligible, regular

6. Say what underlies the semantic change in the following cases:

the leg of a person – the leg of a chair; the brain of a person – the brain of the computer; the key to a door – the key to the mystery; the crown of Peter I – the British greatly respect the crown.

7.Look up the meanings of the following words in your monolingual dictionary. Classify them into stylistic and ideographic synonyms:

to begin – to commence; to walk – to promenade; to ask – to interrogate; faculty – talent

8.Look up the words given below in your monolingual dictionary. Say, what the denotational meaning of each of them is. Do they carry any connotation? In case they do, identify the connotational component of meaning of these words;

to murmur, to mutter, to grumble

Illustrate their use by examples of your own.

9. What words would you include into the semantic field Relations between people? Consult your dictionary.

10.What, in your opinion, may be the heading of the semantic field which includes the following words: offend, insult, abuse, affront, outrage. Consult your monolingual dictionary.

11. What kind of relations exist between the words given below?

Lorry, car, cabriolet, bus, vehicle.

What is the general term in this list? What do we call it? What are other members of the group called?

12. Identify the part of speech of the words in bold. What parts of speech are they derived from? What do we call this means of word-formation?

a) Where do you usually holiday? b) He cleaned his shoes before coming in. c) He is said to have pocketed his partner's money. d) Will you wait for me? I have to make a call.

13. What makes the meanings of the pairs of compound-words from the list below different?

Dog-house, house-dog; pot-flower, flower-pot; play-boy, boy-play.

14. Look up the meanings of the following words in your monolingual dictionary. Classify them into stylistic and ideographic synonyms.

Refreshment – bite; soldier – warrior; to leave – to abandon; strange – odd – queer, fear – horror.

15.Make up verbal collocations with the verbs to mend and to repair.

16.What words would you include into the semantic field under the heading Emotions and Feelings? Consult your monolingual dictionary.

17.Which of the words given below is a derivational compound adjective?

Snow-white, looking-glass, long-legged.

Form more adjectives according to this pattern.

18. Look up the word lion in your monolingual dictionary. Analyse its semantic structure. Now, say which meanings of the word are realised in the following phrases:

a)lion-hearted, b)the lion's share, c)to be thrown to the lions, d)in the lion's den

19.Say what is the lexical, the part-of speech and the grammatical meaning of the following forms of words:

a) student, students, student's

b) run, runs, ran

20. Try to explain the meanings of the following phraseological units:

Achilles' heel, to shed crocodile tears, an apple of discord, to have two faces.

21.Glossary

What do the terms that follow mean?