Exercises

6. The text contains a few words whose pronunciation could pose difficulty. Transcribe the list of words that follows to avoid possible mispronunciation and miscommunication.

academia, thickets, belligerently, aluminum, aluminium, eschews

7. Explain the meanings and give examples of usage of the following words from the text above. Use the chart below.

#	Word	Meaning(s)	Example of usage other than in the text

academia, underpin, hefty, eschew, entry, off-putting, howler

8. Translate the sentences below incorporating the vocabulary from the previous exercise.

1. Через ряд стилістичних ляпів його нарис не оправдав вчительських сподівань. 2. Будь-яка теорія мусить підкріплюватися ґрунтовними даними досліджень. 3. Туземне плем’я уникає стосунків з зовнішнім світом без особливої потреби. 4. Її останній запис в щоденнику був вельми стислий. 5. Джекова нетерпимість з товаришами по роботі справляє відворотне враження. 6. Нові правила правопису викликали неоднозначні судження в наукових колах. 7. Його дослідження переросли в товстий том дисертації.

9. Match the words in the left and right columns to restore the collocations from the text. Give the context where they are used. (The next third-year students to borrow this textbook will appreciate the absence of irrelevant markings across the book. Please, make all markings and notes in your notebooks.)

e. g. “every conceivable indicator”. It suggests that English has firmly established itself as world's first truly global language, and this fact is supported by “every conceivable indicator”.

	every conceivable	a milestone				venerable	the Oxford model
	in a profound	to relate				live from hand	howlers
	strange	industry				bursting	innovations
	thickets of	indicator				much-trumpeted	figures
	marks	sense				raised on	to mouth
	cottage	misunderstanding				amusing	with novelties

10. Answer the questions referring to the above article.

1.What is the approximate number of the global English-speaking community?2.How far has English penetrated into specific areas of human activity?3.How is English akin to globalisation?4.What circumstance prompted the Encarta World English Dictionary Project?5.Who were the project partners?6.What does the dictionary's publication mean to the publisher?7.What is innovative or revolutionary about the new volume?8.How does the new dictionary cater to the American and British varieties of the language?9.What do you understand by the term "political correctness"?10.What steps has the edition made towards gender equality?11.Why is the phonetic script referred to as "easy to understand"?12.What kind of encyclopaedic references does the new dictionary include?