a) My brother will escort me to the meeting.
You can’t go without an escort.
b) There has been a great increase in the rate of inflation this month.
They are going to increase the price of cigarettes in the budget.
c) I’m going to contest the will, I’m sure it’s not legal.
My sister won first prize in the dancing contest yesterday.
Phrasal verb
Make up phrasal verbs by combining a verb from the list on the left with a preposition or adverb from the list on the right. Consult a monolingual dictionary.
follow up
come down
tear at
pick on
look out
run through
Compounds and Idioms
a)Are these statements True or False? Use the dictionary to find out the meaning of the compounds.
a) You can ride on white horses.
b) A red carpet is for an important person.
c) You must wear a white collar if you work in an office.
d) It’s easy to tell a white lie.
e) If you have green fingers you are ill.
f) You can buy things cheap on the black market.
g) A black spot is where you find black ice.
h) You get grey matter when you are very old.
i) You can eat redcurrants.
j) Brown paper is useful if you are sending a parcel.
b)Which colours go with which words to make compounds or idioms? There may be more than one possibility. Consult a monolingual dictionary.
Red, white, blue, black, grey, purple, green, yellow, orange.
………squash …………-blooded ………..area
……… fingers …………passages ……….matter
scream ……… murder a bolt from the…….. in the………
……….water rafting …………-handed
……….with envy …………ice
……….tape …………-collar worker
……….economy double……….lines
………..lie ………..-letter day
Countable and Uncountable nouns.
a) Which category do the following nouns belong to? Check them in a monolingual dictionary.
News, pizza, cucumber, homework, provocation, metal, information, foresight, code, tedium.
b) Put a circle around the correct forms in the sentences below.
The tedium (was/were) mind blowing.
(This/these) inks are very colourful.
Some (metal/metals), such as mercury, are liquid.
(This/these) (feature/features) of the policy were unpopular.
Liaison (is/are) Eileen’s domain.
Foresight (is/are) more valuable than hindsight.
Rebecca’s frequent splurges (was/were) expensive.
Recommended literature
1.Гвишиани Н.Б. Современный английский язык: Лексикология. М. 2000.
2.Ступин Л.П. Лексикография английского языка: учебное пособие, М., Высшая школа, 1985
3.Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary. 2nd ed., Collins, 1995
4.Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. 5th ed., OUP, 1995
5.Cambridge International Dictionary of English. CUP, 1995.
6.Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. 3d ed., Longman, 1995.
BILINGUAL LEXICOGRAPHY
Lecture
Common and different features of monolingual and bilingual lexicography.
2. The problem of semantic equivalence in bilingual dictionaries.
Constraints imposed on reversibility of certain thematic groups in bilingual dictionaries. Phraseology. Morphology. Cultural connotation. Etymology.
4. Reversibility of words belonging to general scientific vocabulary.
5. “False friends”.
Seminar
Topics for Presentations
Make a presentation on one of the following dictionaries:
| 1. Бенсон М., Бенсон Э. | Русско-английский словарь глагольных словосочетаний. М. Московская международная школа переводчиков1995 |
| 2. Козырева М.Н., Федорова | Англо-русский словарь учебный М. Русский язык1999 |
| 3. Кортни Р. | Английские фразовые глаголы. Англо-русский словарь М. Русский Язык. Лонгман. 1997 |
| 4. Кунин А.В. | Англо-русский фразеологический словарь. М. Русский Язык 1998 |
| 5. Малаховский Л.В. | Словарь английских омонимов и омоформ. Москва «Рус. Язык» 1995 |
| 6. Убин И.И. | Словарь усилительных словосочетаний русского и английского языков. Москва 1995 |
| 7. Pressman A. | The living language common usage dictionary. Russian English, English-Russian. N.Y. Crown 1959 |
| 8. | Оксфордский русско-английский словарь (70000 слов) Москва. Престиж. 1995 |
Теst Questions.
1. What are the features of differences and similarities of bilingual general-purpose and monolingual dictionaries?
2. How do words of L1 and L2 juxtaposed in bilingual dictionaries correlate?
3. What factors should we bear in mind using a bilingual dictionary?
4. What makes regular reversibility in bilingual dictionaries impossible?
5. How are etymologically identical words of general scientific lexis treated in lexicography?
Written tasks.
Collocations.
| Words that go together 1. Match an adjective from list A with a noun from list B to make a logical combination. How many combinations can you make? (You can use the words more than once) A close cold milky mild free good long B hair memory country curry weather coffee friend Which combinations are in your bilingual dictionary? What examples with the adjectives or nouns above are given in your dictionary? |
2. Idioms
Use bilingual dictionaries. Are the idioms listed? Under which word? Write out the translations.
1. After the match I was black and blue.
2. Come here, John. I’ve got a bone to pick with you.
3. I got that piece of news from the horse’s mouth.
4. They’ve been living from hand to mouth since he lost his job.
5. She wasn’t being serious, she said it tongue in cheek.
6. Sarah and Sam get on like a house on fire.
7. He never disagrees with the boss. He knows which side his bread is buttered.
8. If you want to pass your exam you’d better pull your sock up.
9. She should be careful if she starts playing squash: she’s no spring chicken.
10. You really put your foot in it when you told her about the party.
11. No, thanks, discos are not my cup of tea.
12.He knows London like the back of his hand.
3. Compounds
Some combinations of words have a special meaning that is different from the meaning of each word separately (dead end, coach potato, black market).
Translate the sentences .
