Task 4. Vocabulary test

Read the sentences and mark each sentence T (for True) if the verb make/do is used correctly or F (for False) if it is not used correctly.

1. Take this medicine, it will make you good.

2. Will you do me a service?

3. Make sure that she is all right.

4. If you do one more remark, I won’t utter a word.

5. I’ll make my best to help him.

6. He made no attempt to apologize.

7. It’ll take you five years to do a course in Literature.

8. If you work at your English regularly, you’ll make progress.

9. Do a fuss, otherwise we would miss the train.

10. Hard work makes everyone credit.

11. I did them a favour but they didn’t appreciate my kindness.

12. I need to do a quick phone call.

13. I suppose we should make a start on cleaning this room.

14. It's a pleasure making business with you.

15. Exercise can do wonders for body, mind, and spirit.

Way

Task 1. Read the explanations of the meanings of phrases with ‘way’ in English, give Ukrainian translations of these. Then use them in the sentences of your own, let your groupmates translate.

by the way - incidentally, in passing, in parenthesis, en passant, by the bye. By the way, how did your seminar go?

get in the way of something - interfere with, hamper, hinder, obstruct, impede, be a drag upon (informal). She never let her feelings get in the way of her job.

give way - collapse, give, fall, crack, break down, subside, cave in, crumple, fall to pieces, go to pieces. The whole ceiling gave way and fell in on us.

give way to something

1. be replaced by, be succeeded by, be supplanted by. The numbness gave way to anger

2. concede, yield, back down, make concessions, accede, acquiesce, acknowledge, defeat. The President has given way to pressure from his opponents.

on the way or on your way - coming, approaching. He's on his way here now.

under way - in progress, going, started, moving, begun, on the move, in motion, afoot, on the go (informal). A full-scale security operation is now under way.

way of life

3. customs, practices, traditions, the traditional way of life of the Yanomami Indians.

4. habit, second nature, cities where violence is a way of life.

ways and means - capability, methods, course, discussing ways and means of improving productivity.

Task 2. Look at the synonyms of ‘way’ in different meanings and try to perceive all the meanings of this extremely polysemantic word, match the synonyms with the sentences on the left. The first is done for you.

1. method, means, system, process, approach, practice, scheme, technique, manner, plan, procedure, mode, course of action

2. manner, style, fashion, mode

3. aspect, point, sense, detail, feature, particular, regard, respect, characteristic, facet

4. (often plural) custom, manner, habit, idiosyncrasy, style, practice, nature, conduct, personality, characteristic, trait, usage, wont

5. route, direction, course, road, path

6. access, street, road, track, channel, route, path, lane, trail, avenue, highway, pathway, thoroughfare

7. journey, approach, advance, progress, passage

8. room, opening, space, elbowroom

9. distance, length, stretch, journey, trail

10. condition, state, shape (informal), situation, status, circumstances, plight, predicament, fettle

11. will, demand, wish, desire, choice, aim, pleasure, ambition

• He had a strange way of talking.

• The ranks of soldiers parted and made way for her.

• You'll have to get used to my mother's odd little ways.

• Can you tell me the way to the station?

• He came round the back way.

• Freezing is a great way to preserve most foods.

• We've a long way to go yet.

• He's in a bad way, but he'll live.

• It's bad for a child to get its own way all the time.

• She said she'd pick me up on her way to work.

Task 3. Read the proverb below and speak on how you interpret it. Then use it in the situation of your own.

"The longest way round is the shortest way home"

Task 4. Translate the following sentences from literary works by English writers. Pay attention to the meanings of italicized words. Then make up your own sentences with these trying to make them sound just like from works of fiction. You may happen to have a talent of composing written masterpieces! Discover it!

1. My husband broke off his engagement to her – they were not suited in any way. 2. She made certain threats to which I paid very little attention and which, I may say, she has not attempted to carry out. 3. Jacqueline is making herself utterly ridiculous. 4. If a mistake has been made, then surely it is better to face the fact before it is too late. 5. But that is not the way you react – no, for you this persecution is intolerable – and why? 6. You knew that – but though you hesitated, you didn’t hold your hand. 7. She’s so sure of herself that she makes other people sure. 8. And I know perfectly that he wouldn’t have ever fallen in love with her if she hadn’t made him. 9. Then she held out her hand. 10. It got Linnet badly – in a way nothing else could have done. 11. There’s not a word they can take hold of.12. If you do, evil come and it will enter in and make its home within you and after a little while it will no longer be possible to drive it out. 13. His tone held boyish awe and astonishment. 14. As you say it may be the best way out. 15. Some day, I feel, we’ve got to make a stand and fight it out. 16. Besides that, it’s been – well, a relief in some ways. 17. Elephantine was reached very quickly and on going ashore Poirot and his loquacious acquaintance made straight for the museum.

Task 4. Match the synonyms on the left with their definitions and pictures on the right. Try to perceive their connotations and common usage.

way road path track highway street lane thoroughfare

a trodden track made across the ground by the passing of people or animals a strip of ground usually with a hard level surface for people, vehicles etc to travel on a major public road for any form of motor transport, especially one connecting towns and cities a ny road or path affording passage especially a rough one, a route, or course indicated by marks left by something that has passed e ) a narrow (usu. country) road or way between buildings, hedges, fences, etc. f ) a public road from one place to another, esp a main road g) a road with houses, shops etc on one or both sides, in a town or village, usually with a sidewalk or sidewalks a line leading to a place or point

Task 5. Insert the appropriate words from the task above.

1. He shook his head sadly and followed her up the … to the hotel.

2. When Jackie finds we don’t come back it will be too late – we shall be well on our …

3. By the …, the third member of your party, the tall grey-haired man…

4. This … takes you past the school.

5. The Porta Rosa was the main … of Elea.

6. Most of the … across the world are built and maintained by the public sector.

7. Interstate 80, the second-longest U.S. Interstate …, runs from California to New Jersey.

8. We set off once more, over a rough mountain …

9. The country … are greener and more attractive for pedestrians and they help to reduce vehicle speeds.

10. Until the 1980's Halesworth … was a main road.

11. There is a … through the fields.

Task 6. Paraphrase the utterances using essential vocabulary.

1. She isn’t actually twenty-one yet – but she hadn’t got to ask anyone’s consent before marrying me.

2. He had an extremely dirty pair of grey flannel trousers on and a high-necked polo jumper singularly unsuited to the climate.

3. He decided to pass the remaining two hours before lunch on the island of Elephantine immediately opposite the hotel.

4. The maid departed from the front door of the hotel and turned to the right in the direction of Shellal.

5. ‘There must be some means of stopping it’.

6. Looking at the matter sentimentally – which is , I suppose, the manner people of your generation cannot help looking at things – that is possibly true.

7. He was very fond of her, but I think that even before he met me he was beginning to feel that he was not right.

8. You’ve done so that she realized that we are more or less powerless in the matter.

Study the differences between the adjectives describing emotions and speak on them.

E xcitement, anger and anxiety

You feel:

excited when you are expecting something special to happen, e.g. before a party,

inspired when you are stimulated to create deeds or words. You might feel inspired by a really talented musician to learn how to play a musical instrument.

enthusiastic when you have very positive feelings about something, e.g. a new project.

thrilled (informal) when something extremely exciting and pleasing happens. She was thrilled when the film star kissed her.

cross (informal) when you are angry or bad-tempered. It is often, though not exclusively, used about small children. Stop getting so cross with me. anxious when you are afraid and uncertain about the future. I am so anxious about the results of my exams that I can't sleep. nervous when you are afraid or anxious about something that is about to or may be about to happen. I feel nervous about going to the dentist. Feeling nervous is a little bit like feeling excited but it is a negative feeling whereas excitement is positive. apprehensive about, e.g. an important meeting; when you are slightly nervous or anxious about something in the future. worried about, e.g. an operation; when anxious thoughts constantly go through your head. upset about, e.g. a quarrel; when something unpleasant has happened to disturb you. It often combines feelings of both sadness and anger.

Task 1. Complete the following table.

adjective	abstract noun
excited ……………. inspired …………… enthusiastic	……………... anxiety ……………. apprehension ……………..

Task 2. Write sentences about when you have experienced the following feelings.

EXAMPLE: anxious I felt anxious until we heard the results of my mother’s medical tests.

1. apprehensive 3 worried about 5 inspired

2. upset 4 excited 6 nervous

The words that end in -ed also have -ing forms e.g. depressing and exciting. Add the correct ending -ed or -ing.

EXAMPLE She was thrilled by her present.

1. I found the film very excit…

2. The poet was inspire… by the sunset.

3. This weather is terribly depress…

4. It's very frustrate… when the phones don't work.

5. She was confus… by his ambiguous remarks.

Task 3. A) Decide upon the intensity of the following words: to be anxious, to be sorry, to worry, to trouble, to bother, to be upset.

B) Put the above words on the scale from the strongest in meaning to the weakest.

Task 4. Read and translate sentences from literary works by English authors. Pay attention to the underlined words.

1. That is even more upsetting!

2. I am explaining to you just why the unexpected appearances of Mademoiselle de Bellefort have upset you so much.

3. He belonged to that type of men of action who find it difficult to put thought into words and who have trouble in expressing themselves clearly.

4. It’s Linnet I’m worrying about.

5. And that is why the feeling that you have deliberately caused injury to someone upsets you so much, and why you are so reluctant to admit the fact.

Task 5. Fill in with the words from the box:

(be) anxious anxiety anxiously

worry trouble bother

1. He _____ about the safety of the flight.

2. She gave me a/an _____ look.

3. Being in a crowd really _____ me.

4. It can help if you discuss your _____ with someone.

5. She _____ that it might be cancer.

6. He _____ that he might lose his job.

7. She waited _____ by the phone

8. The fear of unemployment can be a source of deep _____ to people.

9. It really _____ me that he'd forgotten my birthday.

10. My fellow-passengers made much noise, but that didn't _____ me.

11. He often _____ the neighbours to take care of his dog.

12. What _____ me is the difference in age between Liz and her boyfriend.

13. The producer of the theatre company _____ not to have another flaw.

14. Her _____ about the pain of childbirth is understandable.

15. We _____ for news.

16. She _____ looked at him and he dropped his eyes.

17. I won't _____ you with the details.

Task 6. Read the definitions and match them with the words in bold type.