Give etymological doublets to the following words.
Major, story, senior, catch, shade, fence, skirt, cavalry, hospital, canal, corps, jail.
Assignment 6.
Comment on the type of the following borrowings; subdivide them into four groups according to the borrowed aspect.
Blue blood, pioneer, student, swan-song, sputnik, goddess, beautiful, engineer, the fifth column, bank, uncomfortable, masterpiece, Sunday, Autobahn, unmistakable, superman.
Assignment 7.
Comment on the etymology of the following international words.
Moment, robot, glasnost, meeting, antenna, antibiotics, snob, democrat, villa,
football, bandit, domino, time-out.
Assignment 8.
State the origin of the following words.
Prison, skipper, junta, just, yacht, ranch, tailor, embargo, take, lieutenant, guess, leg, joy, waltz, tomato, corridor, skin, Mafia, concert, pencil, money.
Seminar 2
Regional Varieties of English
I. Speak on the following topics.
1. Standard English and RP.
2. Development of British dialects.
3. Standard American English and dialects.
4. Groups of Americanisms.
5. Peculiarities of American English compared to British English.
II. Do the following assignments.
Assignment 1.
Give the British equivalents to the following Americanisms.
Apartment, store, baggage, elevator, candy, truck, sidewalk, schedule, fall, movies, subway, bulletin, homely, corn.
Assignment 2.
Translate the following words giving both the British and American variants.
Каникулы, бензин, осень, радио, трамвай, консервная банка, брюки, перекресток, печенье
Assignnment 3.
Give the synonyms for the following American shortenings. Describe the words from the stylistic point of view.
Gym, mo, circs, auto, g.m., dorm, cert, b.f.
Assignment 4.
In the following sentences find the examples of Americanisms. State whether they belong to :
1)historical Americanisms
2)proper Americanisms
3)American borrowings
4)American shortenings
5)Words with spelling peculiarities
1.As the elevator carried Brett downward, Hank closed and locked the apartment door from the outside.
2.A raw fall wind swirled fall leaves and dust in small tornadoes.
3.In a plant bad news traveled like burning gasoline.
4.The bank was about equal in size to a neighborhood drugstore.
5.He guessed this three-storey building contained two dozen or so apartments.
6.Auto companies regularly invited design school students in, treating them like VIPs.
Assignment 5.
Look through the following list of words and state what spelling norms are accepted in the USA and Great Britain so far as the given words are concerned.
BE AE BE AE
a) favour –favor e) defence - defense
honour – honor practice – practice
b) centre – center e) marvellous - marvelous
fibre – fiber jewellery - jewelry
c) to enfold - to infold f) cheque – check
to encrust – to incrust catalogue –catalog
d) anaesthesia – anesthesia
orthopaedics - orthopedics g) through – thru
doughnut - donut
Assignment 6.
Write the following words according to the British norms of spelling.
To instill, color, encyclopedia, flavor, dialog, meter, humor, to impanel, program, theater, offence, traveler, woolen.
Assignment 7.
Write the following words according to the American norms of spelling.
Honour, labour, through, armour, cigarette, gramm, amoeba, citrous, checker, draughtsman, wagon, anaemia.
Seminar 3
Word Formation
I. Speak on the following topics.
1. Affixation. Classifications of suffixes.
2. Valency of suffixes.
3. Prefixes, their classification.
4. Compounding, classifications of compounds.
5. Conversion
6. Sound interchange, clipping, blending.
7. Distinctive stress, onomatopoeia, back formation
II. Do the following assignments.
1.Affixation
Assignment 1.
Analyse the following affixed words and try to deduce their meaning:
Brainy, catty, dressy, foxy, stagy, touchy, chatty.
Eatable, loveable, questionable, imaginable.
Lovely, lonely, friendly, heavenly.
Assignment 2.
Analyse the meaning of suffixes and translate sentences.
Humanity – humanism
1.His theory was rooted in Western Marxism and liberal humanism. 2. They degraded them and denied their humanity. 3. That act was rightly considered as a crime against humanity. 3. He has a sense of humour, a warm humanity, and a strong common sense. 4. She has a background in humanities and modern languages.
Reality – realism
1.She had never seemed able to face reality. 2.He did as much as anything to foster the new note of realism. 3.Extraordinary degrees of realism are reached in the film. 4.Day-dreams have become realities.
Womanish –womanly
1.I should never imagine him to be able to take decisive steps, he has always seemed to me a bit womanish: weak and emotional. 2.Her figure has become more womanly. 3. The womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion attract men.
Childlike –childish
1. She looked at me with her big, childlike eyes. 2. I thought her nice but rather childish. 3. I was annoyed at the childishness of the remark.
Assignment 3.
Form diminutive forms of the following nouns.
Book, cloud, kitchen, aunt, girl, bird, night-gown, dad, handkerchief, squirrel, wolf.
Assignment 4.
Translate into Russian.
Boyish, girlish, bookish, childish, reddish, bluish, greenish, hoggish, baldish.
Assignment 5.