Explain the contextual meaning of the words in bold and translate the following sentences into Ukrainian.
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 449.
Language Focus
Explain the meanings of the following words and word combinations in English and use them in situations of your own:
| 1. to designate process | 9. stock market |
| 2. print media | 10. to be scarce |
| 3. electronic media | 11. metropolitan daily |
| 4. readership | 12. rural paper |
| 5. baffling task | 13. to establish an all-inclusive definition |
| 6.tabloid /popular paper/ | 14. to resort to conjecture or supposition |
| 7. quality newspaper 8.squabble | 15. recency 16. proximity |
3. Translate the following word-combinations into English:
бульварна газета, непереборні перешкоди, засоби інформації, електронні засоби інформації, бути дефіцитним, забобони, визначити процес, значно, новизна, близькість, сільська газета, столична щоденна газета, припущення.
1. Government departments often found themselves competing for scarce resources.
2. Oh, for goodness sake, stop squabbling, you two!
3. What baffles me is how few of them can spell.
4. In this chapter we examine how the female nude became a crucial element in the formation of art designated modern.
5. During the war, things like clothes and shoes were scarce.
6. Why was it designated romantic folly?
7. The crime remained unique, and lawmakers were still squabbling over the ramifications.
8. Designate a driver who won't be drinking before going to a party or club.
9. The exact nature of black holes continues to baffle scientists.
10. The city's school system, among the worst of a bad lot through the state, is full of squabbling.
11. The compound cell is then designated by a combination of the abbreviations applied to the original separate cells.
12. Entirely reliable facts, other than those here mentioned, are scarce.
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