EXERCISE 16. Arrange the following abbreviated words in two columns: a) initialisms, b) acronyms. Put each one in its correct place in the sentences below

UNESCO VAT

AIDS NATO

NASA OPEC

SOS TUC

QC VIP

UFO IQ

CND HQ

MBE DIY

1. The price is $87 but it’s subject to ____________ so that will be $95.70.

2. __________________ has been described as possibly the most deadly epidemic in the history of the world.

3. ___________________ has announced that the next space shuttle launch will take place in August.

4. The ___________________ nations are to meet in Geneva to decide whether to increase the price of oil.

5. ______________________ military exercises involving American forces will be held in Britain and Germany this winter.

6. An expert from __________________ produced a report on primary education in underdeveloped countries.

7. The United Nations __________________ is in New York.

8. Now then all you _______________ fans. Here’s an all-purpose tool to help you in a hundred ways to do those home repairs.

9. Although he was defended by an eminent _________________, he was found guilty and sent to prison for eight years.

10. He’s extremely bright. They say he has an ___________ of 160.

11.The ________________ represents the great majority of working men and women in Great Britain.

12.Film-stars, prime ministers and other celebrities are entertained in the special ______________ lounge at the airport.

13.The Beatles each received an honour from the Queen. It was the ___________.

14.Their _________________ was picked up on the radio by two other ships and a plane. They were rescued within hours.

15.Some people thought the object in the sky was a ______________ bringing visitors from another planet but it turned out to be a small plane.

16. ________________ will support any moves to abolish or reduce nuclear weapons.

EXERCISE 17. Arrange the clipped words in four columns in accordance with the type of clipping: a) initial clipping (apheresis), b) medial clipping (syncope), c) final clipping (apocope), d) combined.

Phone, hols (holidays), vac (vacation), props, ad, flu, fridge, gent, specs, circs, lib (liberty), cert (certainty), metrop, exhibish, exam, prof, lab, co-ed, copter (helicopter), mart (market).

EXERCISE 18. Define the type of the abbreviations in bold type.

1. On the polished lino the old noise-up cleaner sounded like a squadron of aeroplanes.

2. I suppose I shall find the address in the phone book.

3. There were two prams in the hall and the smell of children.

4. Wishing you congrats and all the best from my wife and I, Yours faithfully, Mr and Mrs Harper.

5. Tony spoke to the vet’s wife and Mr Partridge from the shop, then he was joined by the vicar.

6. “I’ll leave you those mags,” she said. “You ought to read them sometime.”

7. Well, you know we were going to Spain these hols.

8. I do nearly all shopping and most of cooking since my old ma’s had her op.

9. When I came back from France they all wanted me to go to college. I couldn’t. After what I’d been through I felt I couldn’t go back to school I learnt nothing at my prep school anyway.

10. It was his sister’s voice from the stairs. “Oh, Matthew, you promised” – “I know, sis. But I can’t.”

11. You don’t mean to say that bloody British gent is coming to inspect you?

12. He wrote their language in his occasional sales memos to Mr Callendar.

13. She had given Reggie a good education, sent him to riding lessons, and pushed him through professional exams in the property business.

14. Jeff Jefferies stopped his van outside one of the few detached houses in Archibald Road.

15. Going out, having lost the firm’s expensive dem model and with its commission, Arnold met Miss Riley’s friend coming in with a bundle of sheets.

16. “These infra-red cookers, Hetty – where did you get ‘em? They haven’t been put on the market yet” – “I must have seen it in a magazine or on the telly. ”

17. “Look, I’ll rev the engine again, and you watch the back wheels.”

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