EXERCISE 9. What verbs collocate with the following nouns?

karate algebra kayak

mufti embargo guerilla

cul de sac coup confetti

siesta cruise sauna

seminar sherbet junta

EXERCISE 10. Put each of the following expressions into its correct place in the sentences below. State the origin of these words and expressions.

tete-a-tete hors d’oeuvre

bon voyage rendezvous

carte blanche grand prix

nouveaux riches cul-de-sac

blase chic

1. The advantage of living in a __________________________ is that there is no through traffic, so it’s very quiet.

2. Let’s order. I’m hungry. I’m going to start with a nice ___________________.

3. The boss didn’t tell me how he wanted the project carried out. He gave me __________________________ to do it as I thought best.

4. The French _____________________________ was won by a Brazilian driver in an Italian car.

5. __________________________, and send us a post-card when you arrive.

6. She chooses her clothes, hair-style and make-up so that she is in the latest fashion. She always looks very ____________________.

7. I have one or two ideas I’d like to discuss with you. Could we have a little ________________________ one day soon?

8. He was very excited when his first book was published, but now, having written over 30, he’s fairly __________________________ about it.

9. That restaurant is a favourite ___________________________ for writers and artists.

10. A snob tends to look down on _______________________________ as people who have money but no class or taste.

EXERCISE 11. Instructions as above.

encore bloc

c’est la vie gourmet

detente avant garde

entourage debut

facade coup

1. If we take Charles to our dinner, we must choose a good restaurant. He is a ______________________.

2. There was a successful _______________ last night. The president has been arrested and the main government buildings are in the hands of the army.

3. Film stars don’t usually travel alone. They’re normally surrounded by a large ______________________ of agents, secretaries and other helpers.

4. The audience liked her songs so much that at the end they shouted

‘__________________’, and she obliged by singing one more.

5. Yes, I’ve had some bad luck recently, but it’s no use worrying about it.

__________________.

6. The term “Eastern _______________ countries” refers to the Soviet Union

and the other socialist states of Eastern Europe.

7. He’s a very ________________________ artist. I have no idea what he’s

trying to express. Very few people understand his paintings.

8. She made her _______________________ as an actress in a film at the age of 14.

9. That building still has its old ________________________ as you can see, but the rest of the building behind it has been rebuilt and modernized.

10. At the moment there is a ___________________________ between the two countries. Relations are much easier.

EXERCISE 12. Instructions as above.

status quo ad nauseam

persona non grata per capita

curriculum vitae vice versa

bona fide ego

post mortem pro rata

1. Duty-free goods may be purchased only by _______________________ travellers. Please show your flight-ticket when buying.

2. Applicants for this post should write enclosing a detailed ________________.

3. Rental rates for our cars are $50 a day. Longer periods will be charged _______________________ with no reductions, so a one-week rental will be $350.

4. He was barred from this country in 1985 and has been ___________________ ever since.

5. Everyone must do what she wants, listen to what she says, go where she decides to go. No one else is important. She really has got a big _______________.

6. Some people want to preserve the ______________________ in the country, but others want change, reform, development.

7. A great many British people spend their holidays in America, and ________________________.

8. The _____________________ examination showed that she died of cancer.

9. Canada has a _______________________ income of about $ 17,000.

10.I’m afraid he’s rather a boring person. He goes on and on _________________ about his political views.

EXERCISE 13. Instructions as above.

siesta kindergarten

patio bravo

blitz graffiti

incognito kaput

kowtow macho

1. A man who is very hard, tough and masculine is sometimes described as “______________________ “.

2. At the age of three she went to a ____________________________ just to learn to play with other children.

3. After lunch I like to have a _____________________ for an hour or so.

4. A week after the wall was repainted, it was covered with _________________ again.

5. My television’s _________________________. I’ll have to buy a new one.

6. You performed very well. _______________!

7. He didn’t want to be recognized so he changed his appearance and travelled ____________________.

8. My garden was looking very overgrown and neglected so I did a real _________________ on it last Sunday. I worked all day.

9. When the Prime Minister comes, just be polite and normal. There’s no need to _________________________ to him.

10. No, our house hasn’t got a proper garden, just a paved ________________.

EXERCISE 14. State the origin of the following translation-loans.

a) five-year plan

b) wonder child

c) masterpiece

d) first dancer

e) collective farm

EXERCISE 15. Read the following text. Identify the etymology of as many words as you can.

During Queen Victoria’s sixty-four year reign (1837-1901) the British Empire, led by an array of great statesmen and supported by great industrial expansion, grew to a size so vast that “the sun never sets upon it”. This Empire, whose creation began initially from commercial motives, was also added to for strategiс and even missionary reasons and eventually comprised about a quarter of the world’s population and land surface. Yet only towards the end of the nineteenth century was there any strong public sentiment in favour of it.

EXERCISE 16. Read the following text. Identify international words.

La Pyramide.

The new entrance to the Paris Louvre had become almost as famous as the museum itself. The controversial, neomodern glass pyramid designed by Chinese-born American architect I. M. Pei still evoked scorn from traditionalists who felt it destroyed the dignity of the Renaissance courtyard. Goethe had described architecture as frozen music, and Pei’s critics described this pyramid as fingernails on a chalkboard. Progressive admires, though, hailed Pei’s seventy-one-foot-tall transparent pyramid as a dazzling synergy of ancient structure and modern method – a symbolic link between the old and new – helping usher the Louvre into the next millennium.

‘Do you like our pyramid?’

Langdon frowned. The French, it seemed, loved to ask Americans this. It was a loaded question, of course. Admitting you liked the pyramid made you a tasteless American, and expressing dislike was an insult to the French.

‘Mitterrand was a bold man,’ Langdon replied. The late French president who had commissioned the pyramid was said to have suffered from a “Pharaoh complex’. Songlehandedly responsible for filling Paris with Egyptian obelisks, art and artefacts, Francois Mitterrand had an affinity for Egyptian culture that was so all-consuming that the French still referred to him as the Sphinx (Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code).

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