Each of these book titles contains a pun ( a joke based on words). Explain why these words are humorous.
e. g What a Pane !, a glassmaker´s memoirs What a pain ! Meaning what a nuisance is a normal expression. Pane = a large piece of glass.
1. Tee Time, autobiography of a golf instructor. Because tee is the small object you put under the golf ball in order to hit it.
2. Love At First Site, romance on an archaeological dig. Because of site in which digging takes place.
3. Heaven Scent, biography of a creator of perfumes. Because the scent is the smell of a perfume.
4. This Place has a Soul, account of life in a fishmonger´s.
5. Sail of the Century, account of a memorable voyage. Because of the word Sail.
Are the nouns normally countable or uncountable ?
Passport (C)
currency (C/U)
luggage (U)
reservation (C)
accomodation (U)Accomodations AmE
flight (C)
information (U)
travel (U)
visa (C)
journey (C)
Spelling changes. Rewrite each sentence by changing the underlined words, using a suffix. Make any spelling changes needed.
1. Most of his crimes can be forgiven
Most of his crimes are FORGETTABLE
2. The Club refuses to admit anyone not wearing a tie.
The club refuses ……………………..
3. Her only fault is that she is lazy.
Her only fault is HER LAZINESS
4. This firm has produced a lot in recent years.
This firm has been very PRODUCTIVE in recent years.
5. I found the book very easy and pleasant to read.
I found the book very………………….
Can you think of anything in our country which should be standardized, modernized, computerized, or centralized?
Which word is the odd one out in each group and why?
Brotherhood neighbourhood manhood priesthood
Hair-restorer plant-holder step-ladder oven-cleaner
Appointment involvement compliment arrangement
Practise using words with negative prefixes. Contradict the following statements in the same way as the example. e. g He´s a very honest man. I don´t agree. I think he´s dishonest.
I´m sure she´s discreet.INDISCREET
I always find him very sensitive. INSENSITIVE
It´s a convincing argument. UNCONVINCING
That´s a very relevant point. IRRELEVANT
She´s always obedient. DISOBEDIENT
He´s very efficient. INEFFICIENT
I always find her responsible. IRRESPONSIBLE
He seems grateful for our help. UNGRATEFUL
I´m sure she´s loyal to the firm. DISLOYAL
He’s a tolerant person. INTOLERANT
It’s legal to drink and drive. ILLEGAL
It`s moral to cheat in tests. IMMORAL
Which negative adjective fits each of the following definitions?
SINGLE/UNMARRIED means not having a husband or wife.
UNEATABLE means impossible to eat.
ILLEGIBLE means unable to read or write.
UNEMPLYED means not having a job.
IMPARTIAL means fair in giving judgment, not favouring one side.
IRREPLACEABLE means unable to be replaced.
Collocations:
Put the expressions below into the correct category
Making others experience pain
to cause pain
to inflict pain
the experience of being in pain
to be racked with pain
to suffer pain
to feel pain
to complain of pain
to experience pain
making pain go away
to alleviate pain
to ease pain
to lessen pain
to relieve pain
to soothe pain
pain subsides
Prefix meaning examples
anti against anti-war, antisocial ,antibiotic
auto of or by oneself autograph, auto-pilot, autobiography
bi two, twice bicycle, bi-monthly, biannual, bilingual
ex former ex-wife, ex-student, ex-president
ex out of extract, exhale, excommunicate
micro small micro- computer, microwave, microscopic
mis badly/ wrongly misunderstand, mistranslate, misinform
mono one / single monotonous , monologue, monogamous
muti many multi-national, multi-purpose, multi-racial
over too much overdo, overtired, oversleep , overeat
post after postwar, postgraduate, post-revolutionary
pro in favour of pro-government , pro-revolutionary
pseudo false pseudo-scientific, pseudo-intellectual
re again or back retype, reread, replace, rewind, restate
semi half semicircular, semi-final, semi-detached
sub under subway, submarine, subdivision
under not enough underworked, underused, undercooked
Answer the following questions. The answers are all in the table above
What kind of oven cooks things particularly fast? MICROWAVE
What kind of drug can help somebody with an infection? ANTIBIOTIC
What kind of company has branches in many countries? MULTI-NATIONAL
How does a passenger aeroplane normally fly? AUTO-PILOT
What is a student who is studying for a second degree? POSTGRADUATE
What means “ underground railway” in the US and “ underground passage” in the UK? SUBWAY
Using the table above construct words or phrases to replace the underlined words
The BBC tries to avoid pronouncing foreign words incorrectly. MISPRONOUNCING
Most people say they have to work too hard but are paid too little. UNDERPAID OVERWORK
He dated his cheque with a date that was later than the real date. OVERDUE
She´s still on good terms with the man who used to be her husband. EX-HUSBAND
He made so many mistakes in the letter that he had to write it again. REWRITE
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Exercise 5. Using the vocabulary under consideration, complete the sentences about yourself and your country. If possible, compare your answers with someone else.
Exercise 3. Write down at least one vegetable and fruit.
Exercise 2. Unscramble the following words.
Exercise1. Prove that the proverbs and quotes have sense. Give examples from your own experience.
VOCABULARY PRACTICE
1. Is it true that cannibals don’t eat clowns because they taste funny? (AuthorUnknown)
2. Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the entire weekend. (Zenna Schaffer).
3. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. (George Bernard Shaw)
4. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. (Jim Davis)
5. High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us? (Annita Manning)
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. (Channing Pollock)
6. Appetite comes with eating.
7. The belly has no ears.
8. Eat, drink and be merry.
1.rinetange __________________
2.rryche __________________
3.ppleainpe __________________
4.eesech __________________
5.garsu __________________
6.gareniv __________________
7.rylece __________________
8.lio __________________
9.mondal __________________
10.reeb __________________
11.uijec __________________
12.tailocck __________________
13.rryberanc __________________
14.last __________________
15.geg __________________
16.neiw __________________
17.rrmawo __________________
18.niono __________________
19.berucucm __________________
20.kadov_________________
| Letter | Vegetable | Fruit |
1. beginning with the letter P
|
Potato, peas …………………………………………… ………………………………………….. ………………………………………….. ………………………………………….. |
……………………………………… …………………………………….. …………………………………….. ……………………………………… ……………………………………… |
Exercise 4. Which word is the odd one out in each group, and why?
1. Pork, veal, salmon, beef. Salmon is a fish, the others are meat.
2. Lettuce, leek, tomato, cucumber. ……………………………………………
3. Peach, onion, mushroom, apple. ……………………………………………
4. Chicken, lamb, beef, crab. ……………………………………………
5. Grape, cherry, aubergine, melon. ……………………………………………
- In my country ………………………..is/are more common than ………………………………….
- In my country ………………………..is/are more expensive than ………………………………..
- In my country a mixed salad usually contains ……………………………………………………..
- In my country we don’t grow …………………………………………………………………………
- And we don’t often eat ……………………………………………………………………………….
- Personally, I prefer ……………………………………………………………………………………
| 1.bread and butter 2.fussy eater 3.eat smb. out of house and home 4.eat like a horse 5.eat smb.’s bread 6.square meal 7.wine and dine smb. 8.eat like a bird |
a)eat a lot of someone’s supply of food; b)eat very little; c)live on somebody; d)a good satisfying meal; e)entertain with a meal and wine; f)someone who its only particular things; g)eat large amounts of food; h)the work that provides one’s main source of income. |
Exercise 7. THE FOOD GAME. Hidden in the sentences below are names of food items. You cannot find them by looking at the sentences, for they are not there by spelling; they are there by pronunciation. The food may be within a single word or may go across word boundaries.
Example: He begs to be excused from the rehearsal. (eggs)
1.She had a cough even today.
2.Don’t tell me mama laid the table so early.
3.He chased Robert off even after he paid his debt.
4.Happy’s room is so messy. I can’t find a thing.
5.Keep that old sabre. Eddie will take it to the museum.
6.«Why don’t you spy still?» she wanted to know.
7.«Be an angel, leave it finished, with you,» he said.
8.«That bangle is of 24 carat gold,» he said.
9.«Sue, please go away,» he said.
10.«But Ernest is not coming on this trip,» she said.
11.Don’t bake condensed milk sweets.
12.«Tap Elmo on the shoulder and wake him up,» she said.
13.Please meet me tomorrow.
14.Kay came to meet me on Wednesday.
15.The donkey brays inside the shed.
16.He walked on the sand, which was so hot he burned his feet.
17.Richie’s so good, he helps me daily.
18.Don’t buy that saw. Say Jess will get a new one.
19.He’s been staying here for six months now.
20.I hope he’ll be true to you.
The keys: coffee, marmalade, toffee, peas, bread, spice, jelly, carrot, soup, butter, bacon, apple, meat, cake, raisin, sandwich, cheese, sausage, beans, beet.
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Use
the –er/-or,
—ее
and
-ist
suffixes
to make the names of the following. If you need to usea
dictionary, try looking up the words in bold.
Example:
A
person who plays jazz on the piano. a
jazz pianist
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The
thing that wipes
rain
off your car windscreen. -
A
person who plays classical violin. -
A
person who takes professional photographs.
(N.B. pronunciation) -
A
person who acts
in amateur theatre. -
The
person to whom a cheque is paid. -
A
machine for washing
dishes. -
A
person who donates
their organs upon their death. -
The
person to whom a letter is addressed.
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Each picture is of an object ending in -er. Can you name them?
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List six jobs you would like to have in order of preference. How many different suffixes are there in your list? Do any of the job names not have a suffix? (e.G. Pilot, film star)
4. Do these words mean a thing, a person, or both?
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a
cooker 3
a ticket-holder 5 a cleaner 7 a drinker -
a
typewriter 4 a CD player 6
a smoker 8 a dresser
5.
Compete each of the second sentences by changing the words underlined
in the first
sentences. Use a suffix from the previous page and
make any spelling changes needed.
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Most
of his crimes can be forgiven.
Most of his crimes are…………. -
The
Club refuses to admit
anyone not wearing shoes. The Club refuses………… to
anyone not wearing shoes.
-
Her
only fault is that she is lazy.
Her only fault is …….. -
This
firm has produced
a lot in recent years. This firm has been very…………… in
recent years.
-
I
found the book very easy
and pleasant to read.
I found the book very…………….
-
Which word is the odd one out in each group and why?
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brotherhood neighbourhood manhood priesthood
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tearful spiteful dreadful handful
-
appointment
involvement
compliment arrangement
4 worship kinship friendship partnership
V) Conversion
Exercises
1. Find cases of
conversion in the following sentences.
1.
The clerk was eyeing him expectantly. 2. Under the
cover of that protective din he was able to toy with a
steaming dish which his waiter had brought. 3. An aggressive
man battled his way to Stout’s side. 4. Just a
few yards from the front door of the bar there was an elderly
woman comfortably seated on a chair, holding a
hose linked to a tap and watering the pavement. 5.
— What are you doing here? — I’m tidying your room.
6. My seat was in the middle of a row. I could not leave
without inconveniencing a great many people, so I
remained. 7. How on earth do you remember to milk
the
cows and give pigs their dinner? 8. In a few minutes Papa
stalked off, correctly booted and well mufflered. 9.
«Then it’s practically impossible to steal any diamonds?»
asked Mrs Blair with as keen an air of disap-pointment
as though she had been journeying there for
the express purpose. 10. Ten minutes later I was speeding
along in the direction of Cape Town. 11.
Restaurants in all large cities have their ups and downs.
12. The upshot seemed to be that I was left to face
life with the sum of £ 87 17s 4d. 13. «A man could be
very happy in a house like this if he didn’t have to poison
his days with work,»said Jimmy. 14.I often heard
that fellows after some great shock or loss have a habit,
after they’ve been on the floor for a while wondering
what hit them, of picking themselves up and piecing
themselves together.
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FOOD_________________
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Test A
Ex.1. Divide these
words into meat, fish, and vegetables.
carrot liver
beet cauliflower spinach radish salmon
onion mutton pork catfish
|
meat |
fish |
vegetables |
|
carrot |
Ex.2. Match the
names with the pictures.
garlic
kiwi fruit grapes melon
broccoli leeks pear
mushrooms strawberries pineapple
Ex.3. Can you
write down a vegetable and fruit:
Vegetable Fruit
1. beginning with the
letter “p” _______________ _____________
2. beginning with the
letter “b” _______________ _____________
3. beginning with the
letter “m” _______________ _____________
4. beginning with the
letter “c” _______________ _____________
5. beginning with the
letter “a” _______________ _____________
Ex.4. Which is the
odd one out in each group, and why?
1. pork veal salmon
beef
2. salmon
shrimp oyster lobster
3. lettuce
aubergine tomato cucumber
4. peach
onion mushroom courgette
5. chicken lamb
beef mussels
Ex.5. Here are the
names of some drinks with the letters mixed up. What are they?
1. kiml
2. odas
3. uciej
4. eta
5. efecof
6. moatot ceuji
7. tirfu huncp
8. tobteld tarew
9. labreh eta
10. ereb
Ex.6.* Fruit
puzzle. Write the correct letters in the spaces provided and you will find the
names of nine tasty fruit.
FOOD_________________
.
Test C
Ex.1. Divide these
words into meat, fish, and vegetables.
carrot bacon
trout tomato spinach ham salmon
onion mutton pork catfish
|
meat |
fish |
vegetables |
|
carrot |
Ex.2. Match the
names with the pictures.
garlic
kiwi fruit grapes melon
broccoli leeks pear
mushrooms strawberries pineapple
Ex.3. Can you
write down a vegetable and fruit:
Vegetable Fruit
1.
beginning
with the letter “c” _______________ _____________
2.
beginning
with the letter “p” _______________ _____________
3.
beginning
with the letter “b” _______________ _____________
4.
beginning
with the letter “m” _______________ _____________
5.
beginning
with the letter “a” _______________ _____________
Ex.4. Which is the
odd one out in each group, and why?
1. ham salmon beef pork
2. shrimp salmon oyster
lobster
3. peach onion mushroom
tomato
4. chicken lamb beef mussels
5. aubergine tomato cucumber
lettuce
Ex.5. Here are the
names of some drinks with the letters mixed up. What are they?
|
1. tirfu huncp 2. 3. 4. 5. |
6. 7. 8. 9. 10. kiml |
Ex.6.* Fruit
puzzle. Write the correct letters in the spaces provided and you will find the
names of nine tasty fruit.
FOOD_________________
.
Test B
Ex.1. Divide these
words into meat, fish, and vegetables.
carrot ham
flounder garlic cauliflower steak
radish salmon mutton pork catfish
|
meat |
fish |
vegetables |
|
carrot |
Ex.2. Write the
names of these fruit and vegetables.
Ex.3. Can you
write down a vegetable and fruit:
Vegetable Fruit
1.
beginning with
the letter “b” _______________ _____________
2.
beginning with
the letter “m” _______________ _____________
3.
beginning with
the letter “c” _______________ _____________
4.
beginning with
the letter “p” _______________ _____________
5.
beginning with
the letter “a” _______________ _____________
Ex.4. Which is the
odd one out in each group, and why?
1. aubergine tomato cucumber
lettuce
2. onion peach mushroom
courgette
3. shrimp salmon oyster
lobster
4. pork veal salmon beef
5. chicken mussels lamb
beef
Ex.5. Here are the
names of some drinks with the letters mixed up. What are they?
|
1. odas 2. 3. 4. 5. |
6. 7. 8. 9. 10. kiml |
Ex.6.* Fruit
puzzle. Write the correct letters in the spaces provided and you will find the
names of nine tasty fruit.
