III. A) Determine the lexical and the grammatical meaning of the italicized words.

1) The old man drinks his coffee.

b) Give examples of other words having the same grammatical meaning. Do you know other words with exactly the same lexical meaning? With a similar meaning?

IV. Find words with connotative elements in their meaning and specify the type of the connotation: emotive (negative or positive), stylistic (elevated or degraded). For stylistic and emotive characteristics consult Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary.

1) father – daddy;

2) famous – notorious;

3) bunny – hare

4) horse – steed – gee-gee

5) drug – dope

6) admirer – fan – fanatic

V. a) Using a dictionary determine which of the following words are monosemantic: Abhorrence, to rejoice, appendicitis, gigolo, to denounce, resilient, baptism, textile, residue, atoll, bilabial, aphorism, xenophobia, promenade, monarchy, weepy

b) Do some words in the list remind you of similar words in your native language? Do they have the same meaning (meanings)?

VI. Determine the meaning of the underlined word in each phrase. Use an English – English dictionary. Group together phrases in which the word has the same meaning.

1) smart clothes, a smart answer, a smart car, a smart lawyer, a smart blow, a smart officer, a smart garden; 2) a golden ring, golden hair, a golden opportunity, a golden chain, golden wedding, the golden age 3) the root of a tree, edible roots, the root of the tooth, the root of the matter, the root of all evil, square root, cube root

VII. Define the type of transfer which has taken place: metaphor or metonymy

1) a wing of a bird - a wing of a building; 2) a wing of a bird – on wings of joy; 3) an eye of a man - an eye of a needle; 4) a hand of a man - a hand of a clock; 5) a hand of a man – a farm hand; 6) warm weather - a warm welcome; 7) black shoes - black coffee; 8) black shoes - black despair

III. Systemic relations in the vocabulary

I. Read and translate:

Homonyms, synonyms, ideographic, synonymic dominant, euphemism, paronyms, malapropism, hyperonym, hyponym, antonymy, colloquial, slang, argot

II. Answer the questions:

1) What systemic relations exist in the vocabulary? 2) What words are called homonyms? 3) What types of homonyms can we differentiate? 4) What are the main criteria of differentiating between polysemy and homonymy? 5) What is the main disadvantage of semantic criterion? 6) Give examples of ideographic and stylistic synonyms. 7) What is the difference between the terms synonymic dominant and hyperonym? 8) What is the difference between paronyms and synonyms? 9) What are the basic stylistic divisions of the vocabulary?

III. A) Find homonyms for the following words and state the type of homonymy (homonyms proper, homographs, homophones):

1) band - a company of musicians. 2) row - a number of persons or things in a line. 3) seal - a warm-blooded, fish-eating sea animal, found chiefly in cold regions. 4) tale - a report, narrative, or story 5) ear - the grain-bearing spike of a cereal plant, as in a corn. 6) to tear - to pull apart by force. 7) to bore - to make a long round hole, esp. with a pointed tool that is turned round. 8) weak - a period of seven consecutive days. 9) to bow - to bend the head or body. 10) to wind - move in a curving, spiral or twisting manner.