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- •Laboratory work 2
- •Practice: Task 17
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- •Conversion Task 20
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- •Laboratory work 3
- •Practice: Task 33
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- •Practice: shortening Task 39
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- •Word-formation Task 45
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- •Laboratory work 5
- •Practice: Task 75
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- •5. Tiresome because it seems to be interminable or to be marked by unremitting sameness
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Task 42
Find the blends (telescoped words) in the contexts. Determine what words (or, rather, parts of words) these blends are built from.
1. The sky had a white glare and there was not much smog (R. Chandler).
2. I went back to the motel to phone Jenny (E. Segal).
3. So, before embarking on any major plastic surgery, discuss it carefully with your doctor and consult Medicare and your health fund (New Idea).
4. Off duty, the self-confessed shopaholic declares she never wears one designer head-to-toe. Instead, she mixes top labels and vintage couture with thrift-shop finds (Cosmopolitan).
5. Ashley Patterson was on the gallows being hanged, when a policeman ran up and said, "Wait a minute. She is supposed to be electrocuted." (S. Sheldon).
6. Do you feel a pang of envy when you watch Friends, the hit sitcom in which buddies live so closely and happily together? (Cosmopolitan).
7. Two new words have entered the fast-expanding vocabulary of mail-order fashion. We can thank Kit, the cheap and cheerful fashion division of Great Universal Stores, for "magalog" and "videolog", natural offspring of the now superseded catalogue and specialogue. The new Kit offering for this summer is packaged as a glossy, full-colour 143-page fashion magazine, or magalog, available at 7,000 newsagents, including major branches of W.H. Smith, for £1.50 (Daily Telegraph).
Task 43
Find the definition for each of these blends. Establish the structural types of them:
A) a splinter + a splinter;
B) a splinter + a full stem;
C) a full stem + a splinter;
D) a full stem + a full stem /with the elements of superposition at their juncture
(phonetic, graphic or both)/.
1. toytoon a) psychological disturbance arising from an excess
2. Spanglish of wealth
3. docu-fantasy b) the combined Dualities of beauty and utility
4. boom-inflation c) a theatrical production in which food plays a
5. beautility prominent part, especially one in which the audience
6. infomercial participates by eating
7. rockumentary d) Latin American Spanish containing English
8. shamateur expressions
9. affluenza e) (in sport) a player who is classed as an amateur
10. gastrodrama while often making money like a professional
f) a short film produced by an advertiser giving information about goods for sale, to be shown on television
g) inflation fuelled by a high level of consumer spending in an expanding economy
h) an animated cartoon for children featuring characters of which models can be bought as toys
i) a television presentation which uses factual elements as the basis of a far-fetched dramatic reconstruction or projection of events
j) a documentary-style film about, and featuring, rock music