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( II ) Instructions as above. zigzag sing-song dilly-dally. flip-flops sob-story creepy-crawly. ( III ) Instructions as above.
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( II ) Instructions as above.
zigzag sing-song dilly-dally
flip-flops sob-story creepy-crawly
(a) Go and get some biscuits from the shop and come straight back. Don’t _____ on the way.
(b) It’s too steep to climb straight up the side of the hill. Most people _______to make it easier.
(c) He tried to get money from me by telling a ______ about lasing his job and being ill, but I didn’t believe him.
(d) If little Louise sees a beetle or a spider, she screams, “There’s a ________! ”
(e) To keep our spirits up on the long journey we had a ________.
(f) _______are cheap, open sandals, each consisting of a rubber sole and a strap between the toes.
( III ) Instructions as above.
tittle-tattle hot-head riff-raff
shilly-shally tell-tale topsy-turvy
(a) You must make up your mind about the job quickly. If you _____ any longer, they’ll withdraw the offer.
(b) He’s a very calm, moderate person, but his brother is a ______ who is liable to get very upset and even violent over political matters.
(c) Oh, I don’t believe those stories they tell about him. They’re just______.
(d) “The club I belong to is very exclusive”, he said snobbishly, “They only accept upper-class people, not ordinary, vulgar _______”.
(e) He denied any involvement in the murder, but police found _______traces of blood on his clothing.
(f) In the morning he found the whole office ________and realized it had been burgled.
Exercise 4
Translate the following sentences from English into Russian. Mind the reduplicative compounds, onomatopoeic words and point out their pragmatic value.
1. They scuttled for days and days till they came to a great forest, full of trees and bushes and stripy, speckly, patchy-fatchy shadows and there they hid. (R. Kipling. “Just So Stories”)
2. “Whizz! Whizz! ” went the wheel. “Boom! Boom! ” – went the Roman Candle.
“Bang! Bang! – answered the Crackers, who were enjoying themselves immensily.
“Ahem! Ahem! ” – said the Rocket, and he began to cough.
“Quack, quack, quack” – she said.
“Bang! Bang! Bang! ” – went the gunpowder.
(O. Wilde “Fairy tales. The Remarkable Rocket”)
3. The machine-gun pullets whistled cruelly past his head – zwiss-zwiss… (R. Aldington “Death of a Hero”)
4. George Augustus, like most of England, decided that art and literature were niminy-piminy. ”
(R. Aldington “Death of a Hero”)
5. They’ve got a smashing telly, a fridge and another set of bedroom furniture in silvery-grey. All on the never-never, what’ll happen if he loses his job?
(S. Lindsay “The Betrayed Spring”)
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Unit VI. ABBREVIATION and CLIPPING
Exercise 1
For each abbreviation on the left below find another on the right which has something in common with it.
(a) a. m. Cantab.
(b) PC BA
(c) Oxon. PM
(d) MP p. m.
(e) BR CID
(f) RN BST
(g) GMT RAF
(h) BBC BC
(i) AD IBA
Exercise 2
For each abbreviation on the left below find another in the center and another on the right which together make a group of three abbreviations which have something in common. Make as many groups of three as you can.
(a) NHS ft WHO
(b) oz Rd Ave
(c) in. GP PhD
(d) Con. MA yd
(e) St lb st
(f) BA mph SLD
(g) mpg Lab. cc
Exercise 3
Put each of the following abbreviations in its correct place in the sentences below.
SOS TUC QC VIP
UFO IQ VC PLO
CND HQ MBE DIY
(a) The United Nations _______is in New York.
(b) Now then all you _____fans. Here’s an all-purpose tool to help you ______in a hundred ways to do those home repairs.
(c) Although he was defended by an eminent _______, he was found guilty and send to prison for eight years.
(d) He’s extremely bright. They say he has an ________of 160.
(e) He was the only soldier in the regiment to win the __________ in the Second World War.
(f) The _______ represents the great majority of working men and women in Britain.
(g) The aim of the _______ is to establish a permanent home for the Palestinian people.
(h) Film-stars, prime ministers and other celebrities are entertained in the special _______ lounge at the airport.
(i) The Beatles each received an honour from the Queen. It was the ________.
(j) Their _________ was picked up on the radio by two other ships and a plane. They were rescued within hours.
(k) Some people thought the object in the sky was a ________bringing visitors from another planet but it turned out to be a small plane.
(l) ________ will support any moves to abolish or reduce nuclear weapons.
Exercise 4
Some abbreviations, like the following, are pronounced as one word. Put each one in its correct place in the sentences below.
UNESCO VAT NASA
AIDS NATO OPEC
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(a) The price is $87 but it’s subject to ________ so that will be $95. 70.
(b) ________ has been described as possibly the most deadly epidemic in the history of the world.
(c) ________has announced that the next space shuttle launch will take place in August.
(d) The ________ nations are to meet in Geneva to decide whether to increase the price of oil.
(e) ________ military exercises involving American forces will be held in Britain and West Germany this winter.
(f) An expert from ________produced a report on primary education in underdeveloped countries.
Exercise 5
Define what words were clipped. Point out what parts of them were clipped. Translate the sentences into Russian.
1. The play was one of the best that has appeared either on BBC or commercial television, despite the intrusion of the ads.
2. His father sent him to prep school.
3. Lads demobbed recently told me their first wish was to get back to work.
4. “Come and sit down”, she cried dragging her big chair up to the fire, “in this comfy chair”.
5. Even the hippos have a certain gross charm in “No Room for Wild Animals” in Africa.
6. Are you good at maths?
7. As well as being the smog season, winter is also the party season.
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