2 Word - Building

2.1 Practise in forming adjectives by adding suffixes:

a) - less to nouns (значение недостатка или отсутствия качества)

help + less = helpless - беспомощный

father + less = fatherless - не имеющий отца

job, hat, use, home, name, child, limit, colour, cloud, friend, end, hope, rest.

b) - ful to nouns (значение полноты качества)

use + ful = useful - полезный

hope + ful = hopeful = надеющийся, полный надежд

help, wonder, truth, beauty, success, fruit, power, care, thought, cheer.

2.1.1 Translate the sentences into Russian paying attention to the words with suffixes - less, - ful.

1) There are many homeless people in Russia now.

2) The men must come indoors hatless.

3) Not all journalists give truthful information about political events.

4) The road was endless and the driver got tired.

5) It is very hot. The sky is cloudless and colourless.

6) The weather is wonderful. The children enjoy playing in the garden among beautiful flowers and trees.

2.1.2 Form nouns by adding suffixes:

a) - ness to adjectives

dark + ness = darkness - темнота

useful + ness = usefulness - польза, полезность

attractive, happy, kind, white, bright, helpless, great, open, blind.

b) - ment to verbs

to establish + ment = establishment - учреждение, заведение

to move + ment = movement - движение

to develop, to achieve, to place, to state, to improve, to amuse, to entertain (развлекать)

2.1.3 Practise in translating the words with the same root. Use dictionary if you don’t know some of them.

Power - powerful - powerless; to construct - constructor - construction; technology - technologist - technological; to limit - limit - limitless - unlimited; use - useful - usefulness - useless; to direct - director - direction; to examine - examiner - examination; to create - creator - creative - creativity; to differ - different - difference - indifference; job - jobless; happy - happiness - unhappy - unhappiness; to eat - eater - eatable.

3 Vocabulary. Lexical Exercises

Nouns and Noun Combinations

activity - деятельность

attractiveness - привлекательность

construction - базовая конструкция (модели)

customer - заказчик, клиент; покупатель

fabric - ткань; syn. material

flair - чутье

garment - одежда; syn. clothes, clothing

imagination - воображение

manufacture - производство; syn. - production

movie - фильм; syn. film, picture

science - наука

sketch - эскиз

threads - нитки (для шитья)

trend - направление, тенденция

wearer (om to wear) - тот, кто носит одежду

garment make-up - изготовление одежды

good eye for colour - чувство цвета

in advance - вперед, заранее, раньше

sewing factory - швейная фабрика (sewing от глагола to sew - шить)

styling concepts - концепции моделирования

taste - вкус

time/cost elements of - затраты времени / расходы на из-

sample examples готовление образцов

yardage of material - нормирование расхода ткани.