Word building

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 579.

Pre-text exercises

12. Look at the following international words, guess their meaning and check the pronunciation:

electricity, showman, dramatic, static, sulphur, anatomist, Italian, idea, fanatical, hysteria, experimental, reaction, battery, magnetic compass, focus, secrets, magnetism, extraordinary, construct, demonstration, motor, principle, telecommunication, generate, electrolysis, technology, television, mobile phone. gravity.

13. Translate the following derivative words:

adjective + -ance / -ence → noun

distant – distance, present – presence, different – difference, substantial – substance;

adjective + -ness, -dom → noun

dark – darkness, quick – quickness, hard – hardness, near – nearness, free – freedom, wise – wisdom;

noun + -al → adjective

exception – exceptional, profession – professional, tradition – traditional, continent – continental, archeology – archeological, sacrifice – sacrificial, history – historical.

14. Form the words using suffixes -ance / -ence, -ness, -dom, -al:

independent, vast, black, white, calm, kind, culture, invitation, computation, fanatic, experiment, coast, intellect, mathematics, culture.

15. Define to what parts of speech the following words belong:

inventor, equipment, worker, freedom, entrance, famous, connection, dangerous, darkness, electrical, economist, traditional, exceptionally, ability, calculation, anatomist.

16. Translate the following words with prefixes into Russian:

co-, re-, ex, inter-: cooperate, intercontinental, ex-president, rewrite, rebuild, coeducational;

bi-, pre-, semi-, counter-: counterattack, bicycle, prehistoric, semicircle, bilingual, semidetached;

post-, mono-, anti-, non-: postgraduate, nonstop, monorail, antifreeze, non-corroding, non-dimensional, postwar;

multi-, trans-, super-, de-: depopulated, supersonic, multimillionaire, transatlantic, transplant, deforested, multiracial;

pro-, sub-, uni-, tri-: submarine, uniform, tricycles, subterranean, probritish, triangle, pro-war;

over-, under-: overwork, underdone, overcharge, undergraduate, underpopulated, overcrowded, underdeveloped, underestimate.

17. Translate into Russian the following phrases:

hot topic in fashionable society, to generate static electricity, ‘animal electricity', dozens of scientists, life force, like a puppet, rapid and serious advances, the true nature of electricity, the nature of electrical resistance, his keen theoretical insight, a magnetic field, around the same time, to generate huge quantity of electricity, public imagination.

18. Read and match a line in A with a line in B to make sentences. Translate the sentences:

Electricity completely surrounds us. We use electricity in a thousand different ways. Here are some examples.