Provide English equivalents:
Потерянного времени не вернешь.
Друзья познаются в беде.
Лес рубят, щепки летят.
В тихом омуте черти водятся.
Жизнь прожить не поле перейти.
На всякого мудреца довольно простоты.
Судят по результатам.
Нужда всему научит.
Рыбак рыбака видит из далека.
Paraphrase the underlined sentences making all the necessary changes:
There’s a man that it’d pay to get in his good books.
I’m not going to be a drag on Dad.
Wild horses couldn’t drag it from me.
She was most willing to lend an ear, but the fat fellow couldn’t be brought to unbosom himself of his great secret.
It was Mrs. Sedley’s opinion that her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist’s daughter.
I said that I dislike busibodies. But I didn’t say you were one. However, if the cap fits, wear it!
The bottom fell out of her world when she lost her husband and child in the terrible fire.
Success has gone to his head so that he cuts his old friend dead when he meets them.
Complete the similes:
as simple as _________
as ugly as ___________
as busy as ___________
as pleased as _________
as old as ____________
as merry as __________
as cheap as __________
as poor as ___________
as bold as ___________
as proud as ___________
as changeable as __________
as easy as ______________
as gaudy as ______________
as happy as ______________
as innocent as _____________
as rich as ________________
as silent as _____________
as silly as _______________
Explain the meaning of the following English idioms:
Hand in (and) glove; in one’s cup; a storm in a tea cup; read-and-butter letter; as stiff as a poker; to burn the candles at both ends; cupboard love; to rest on one’s oars; on the rocks; to strike home; soft soap; a clean sweep.
Language – dialect – variant
Study the following topics and complete the assignments bellow. Provide the corresponding précis.
Language – dialect – variant. The English language of the British Isles and the USA.
The English language in the USA:
Phonetic and grammatical peculiarities,
Word-formation and spelling.
Peculiarities of lexicon: historical and modern Americanisms.
Borrowings in American English.
Phraseology in American English.
Reciprocal influence of British and American variants of the English language.
Peculiarities of English in Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
Assignments
Who do you think is he most likely to be speaking, an American or a British person?
I lost my way at the big intersection just south of the city.
Why are there always so many shopping trolleys left in the car park?
Cross the road at the pedestrian crossing, and then turn left.
You can’t drive any further; you’ll have to back up, the street is very narrow.
You’ll see the petrol station just after the flyover on the A56.
Once you get on to the Interstate, it will only take you two hours to get there.
The bookstore is kitty-corner to the Chinese restaurant.
There’s a creek at the end of the trail. It’s about three miles from here.
Match he words on the left with their equivalent on the right:
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dumpster
ground
frying pan
cooker
skillet
skip
stove
earth
Lexicography
Study the following topics and complete the assignments bellow. Provide the corresponding précis.
Dictionaries of English:
classification of dictionaries;
characteristic peculiarities of various types of dictionaries;
the structure of the entry in different types of dictionaries.
Bilingual Lexicography
common and different features of monolingual and bilingual lexicography;
the problem of semantic equivalence in bilingual dictionaries.
Corpora of English and corpus linguistics.
Assignments
Look at the numbered parts of the page. Label the components given below with the parts of the dictionary page:
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2
3
4
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8 9 10
11 12
13 14 |
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IDIOMATIC USAGE STRESS PATTERN SYNONYMS/ANTONYMS ENTRY DEFINITION |
PHONEMIC DESCRIPTION CROSS-REFERENCE PART OF SPEECH GRAMMATICAL CODING DERIVATIVE |
RUNNING HEAD FREQUENCY HEADWORD EXAMPLE REGIONAL VARIETY |
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