- •Practice: Task 9
- •Task 10
- •Laboratory work 2
- •Practice: Task 17
- •Task 18
- •Task 19
- •Conversion Task 20
- •Task 21
- •Task 22
- •Task 23
- •Task 24
- •Task 25
- •Task 26
- •Task 27
- •Task 28
- •Task 29
- •Task 30
- •Task 31
- •Laboratory work 3
- •Practice: Task 33
- •Task 34
- •Task 35
- •Task 36
- •Task 37
- •Task 38
- •Practice: shortening Task 39
- •Task 40
- •Task 41
- •Task 42
- •Task 43
- •Task 44
- •Word-formation Task 45
- •Task 46
- •Task 47
- •Laboratory work 5
- •Practice: Task 75
- •Task 76
- •Task 77
- •Task 78
- •Task 79
- •Task 80
- •Task 81
- •Task 82
- •Task 83
- •Task 84
- •Task 85
- •Task 86
- •Task 87
- •Task 88
- •Task 89
- •Practice: Task 92
- •5. Tiresome because it seems to be interminable or to be marked by unremitting sameness
- •Task 93
- •Task 94
- •Task 96
- •Task 97
- •Task 98
- •Task 99
- •Task 100
- •Antonymy Task 103
- •Task104
- •Task 105
- •Task 106
- •Task 107
- •Task 109
- •Task 110
- •Task 111
- •Task 112
- •Task 134
Practice: shortening Task 39
Do you know what these shortenings stand for?
Set I
SOS 7. G-7
GCSE 8. asap
bldg 9. dee-jay
OPEC 10. r-t-e
fan 11. WTO
UFO 12. F2F
Set II
PTO 2. sec 3. MP 4. rep
Task 40
Find the clippings in the following contexts and identify their types:
initial clipping;
final clipping;
medial clipping;
initial and final clipping.
What are the words from which these clippings are formed?
1. I got an A minus on the exam …(E.Segal).
2. They teach us vets all about animals' souls (J. Herriot).
3. He had emptied the fridge, packed the food into a box, switched the fridge off and left the door open (B. Vine).
4. Talking of the lab, we must send you for a blood test (A. Hailey).
5. Oh, my dear, I have a boy of fifteen. I'm a middle-aged gent. In another two or three years I shall just be a fat old party (W.S. Maugham).
6. German immigrant Levi Strauss patented pants made of a sturdy, dark blue material called serge de Nimes (fabric from Nimes, France) (Bright Ideas Calendar).
7. Even before I got miserable marks in math and science they used to ask (J. Smith).
8. So I did not say anything about the cracked lino, and the paintwork all chipped (M. Spark).
9. They've been on the phone for an hour (Oxford Advanced Learner's Encyclopedic Dictionary).
10. Next we heard a noise by the river and advancing carefully saw a hippo cow and her calf feeding in the lush vegetation on the opposite bank (J. Adamson).
11. A ref blew his whistle (E. Segal).
12. They had good jobs - Liz worked as a product development scientist - and decided to postpone having children to concentrate on their careers (Cosmopolitan).
13. What makes you so sure I went to prep school? (E. Segal).
14. Jewish-American research scientist Dr. Jonas Salk developed the first effective vaccine against polio during the 1950s (Bright Ideas Calendar).
15. He was an elegant old gentleman, as thin and tall as a trout rod, with frazzled shirt-cuffs and specs on a black string (O. Henry).
16. It was the only labeled room in the condo (J. Grisham).
Task 41
Find the abbreviations in the sentences and establish their types:
a) an alphabetic abbreviation;
b) an acronymic abbreviation.
Say which of them are graphical abbreviations.
1. "You're frightfully B.B.C. in your language this afternoon, Albert," said Tuppence, with some exasperation (A. Christie).
2. And if you take that to mean that I think you're all right - O.K., that's what I do think (J.M. Cain).
3. My cousin hadn't met any of these people until they barged into her В & В last week (M. Daheim).
4. In Nebraska barbers are breaking the law if they eat onions between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. (Life and Issues in the USA: Past and Present).
5. On the other side are the state of Maryland and the National Organization for Women, even though their position would cost women money. "There's an important principle at stake," explains Martha Davies of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. "Can women be treated differently as a class simply because they are women?" (U.S. News & World Report).
6. I am an M.D., you know, and before I specialized I did a good deal of general work in a hospital. The fact that I'm first and foremost a bacteriologist is all to the good. It will be an admirable chance for research work (W.S. Maugham).
7. We overstretched ourselves slightly when we bought a run-down three-bedroom house just outside London, but I was happy renovating it - DIY wasn't Mike's thing (Cosmopolitan).
8. By shrewdly capitulating at the crucial moment - i.e., by pretending that I suddenly wanted to - I got my book (E. Segal).
9. I hear the RSPCA had a man in court last week over a job like that (J. Herriot).
10. Jenny at one time thought D.C. might be good... but I leaned toward New York (E. Segal).
11. Yeah, but why is it I suddenly wish my name was Abigail Adams, or Wendy WASP? (E. Segal).
12. As soon as she had been old enough, she had begun to help her mother with the washing, in addition to attending the school; then her mother had died of T.B. and her aunt had left the location with "another man" (D. Jacobson).