to charge

To run

1. The horse runs. 2 The film runs for two hours. 3. The tap runs. 4. His nose

runs. 5. The motor runs. 6. The wine ran over the floor. 7. The whole

argument runs on this point. 8. The water runs. 9. She ran water into the

bath-tub. 10. He ran his business well. 11. The ice-cream is beginning to run.

to charge

1. He charged the man ten cents for the pencil. 2. He charged the battery. 3.

He charged them to do their duty. 4. He charged these goods to the man’s account. 5. The soldiers charged the enemy. 6. I don’t want to charge my

memory with trifles. 7. The judge charged him with the crime.

Задание 7. Переведите следующие предложения на русский

язык, обращая особое внимание на грамматическую валентность выделенных

слов. Сравните их грамматическую валентность с русскими эквивалентами:

1. to ride – to go: My little daughter can ride a bike. He rides a horse perfectly. I don’t want to go by train. If we go by bus we’ll be in time there.

2. to blame – to accuse: The investigator blamed the driver for the accident.

He blamed her sister for her child’s death. I don’t want to accuse him of

telling lies. She said that her employers accused her of theft.

3. to let – to allow: Let me have a look at that letter. Due doesn’t let her kids eat candy. We don’t allow people to smoke anywhere in the building. Don’t allow your problems to dominate your life.

Задание 8. Переведите следующие фразеологические выражения на

русский язык и составьте предложения с ними:

1 Between the devil and the deep sea; 2 to have one’s heart in one’s boots;

3 to have one’s heart in the right place; 4 to wear one’s heart on one’s

sleeve; 5 in the blues; 6 once in a blue moon; 7 to swear black is white; 8

out of the blue; 9 to talk till all is blue; 10 to talk oneself blue in the face.

Задание 9. Подставьте фразеологические выражения, включающие слова-названия цвета вместо выделенных слов:

1. I am feeling rather miserable today. 2. He spends all his time on

bureaucratic routine. 3. A thing like that happens very rarely. 4. You can

talk till you are tired of it but I shan’t believe you. 5. The news was a great

shock to me. It came quite unexpectedly. 6. I won’t believe it till I see it in writing. 7. You can never believe what he says, he will swear anything if it

suits his purpose.

Задание 10. Заполните пробелы подходящими фразеологическими

единицами из тех, что даны в рамке:

dark horse, to work like a dog, sour grapes, to lord it over, Achilles

heel, to put one’s cards on the table, red tape, to see somebody in

the flesh, fat cats, around the clock

1. The workers are losing their jobs while the … who run the company are getting richer. 2. Stuart’s getting married? He’s a … - I never even knew he

had a girlfriend. 3. He was a gifted businessman, but greed was his … 4.

If I criticize her book, people will think it’s just … 5. There’s so much …

involved in getting a visa. 6. Doctors and nurses worked …to help people

injured in the train crash. 7. She thought it was time … and tell him that

she had no intention of marrying him. 8. He likes …the more junior staff in the office. 9. I knew his face so well from the photographs that it felt a bit strange when I finally … 10. He …all day to finish the wallpapering.

Задание 11. Проанализируйте следующие слова с точки зрения

их морфологической структуры и деривационной словообразовательной

структуры:

1. He decided to re-modernize the kitchen. 2. It was a double-edged knife.

3. He watched her in the way he would have watched an untrustworthy wife.

4. I could not wholeheartedly regret this adventure.

Задание 12. Определите значения суффикса –ish в выделенных словах,

исходя из того, что они могут быть следующими:

a) принадлежащий, относящийся к;

b) обладающий особенностями, похожий на;

c) привязанный к, склонный к

d) приблизительно;

e) довольно, несколько, немного

1. He brushed away some beads of perspiration on his pinkish brow. 2. Some

women told me I look boyish, which I don’t take as a compliment. 3. She’s

Swedish. 4. There was a longish pause. 5. I can see you are around eightish,

Mike. 6. The woman’s face was white and bloodless, and there was a slight

bluish -gray tinge around the nostrils and the mouth. 7. I must not be foolish

and fanciful. 8. She was always a bookish child. 9. He got out of the car and walked to the nearest house, a smallish farm building about fifty yards off the road. 10. Look at her – isn’t it awfully good – just like a shrewish woman.

Задание 13. Выпишите из следующих словосочетаний сложные слова и

разбейте их на три группы: cобственно сложные, сложно-производные и сложно-сокращенные:

An air-conditioned hall; a glass-walled room; to fight against H-bomb; a

loud revolver-shot; a high-pitched voice; a heavy topcoat; a car’s

windshield; a big hunting-knife; to howl long and wolflike; to go into frantic

U-turns; to fix M-day

Задание 14. Распределите данные ниже сложные слова на две группы: A) идиоматические и B) неидиоматические. Определите также степень идиоматичности (частичная или полная) идиоматических сложных слов:

Light-hearted, adj.; butterfly, n.; cabman, n.; medium-sized, adj.;

blackberry, n.; bluebell, n.; good-for-nothing, adj.; wolf-dog, n.; highway,

n.; dragon-fly, n.; looking-glass, n.; bluestocking, n; gooseberry, n;

necklace, n; lazy-bones, n.

Задание 15. Возьмите любой словарь, определите его тип и опишите, какую информацию Вы можете получить из него, а также то, какая информация в нем отсутствует.

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