Exercise 3

Add the negative prefix, pay attention to its meaning and translate each word (-un, -in, -ir, -il, -im).

Happy, natural, accurate, credible, principled, dreamt, human, convenient, ability, sensitive, thankful, pleasant, eatable, edible, sufficient, attentive, voluntary, mortal, modest, willing, desirable, valuable, suspected, respective, fortunate, pretending, employed, sophisticated, professional, decent.

Exercise 4

Add the suffix, pay attention to its meaning and translate each word (-ful, -ive, -ative. -ish).

Delight, doubt, talk, instinct, imagine, create, offense, represent, white, small, school-girl, boy, excess, impress, care, yellow, hate, fruit, respect, attent, tall, joy, pity, grace, tasty, sense, book, wonder, hand.

Polisemy exercise 1

Translate the following sentences paying attention to the bold nouns. Point out their different meaning.

1. Charle’s eyes were bright, he was ready to defend Getliffe with spirit.

2. Dennis came in and told to us that Eddie was in excellent spirits.

3. For the first time that day, Howard answered with spirit.

4. He couldn’t believe that his son’s temperament was at this point radically different from his own.

5. Yesterday one student of our group put an interesting point of view which concerned our report on Foreign Literature.

6. “What’s the point?” I asked my best friend again.

7. But I knew I was winning on points.

8. He had a good stare at us and asked us where we came from. He wanted to see our papers.

9. He closed the book, swept some papers in a drawer and shut the drawer with a click.

10. He came to London and got a job on a paper.

11. This insolent girl had a face to shout at me in public.

12. Eddie’s eyes ran over her doubtful face.

13. He was in the face of the excitement.

14. “It will be a terribly difficult case for an ordinary court” thought the lawyer.

15. As we picked up our gowns and went downstairs into the court, Francis was saying: “But there’s no mystery why Howard did it…”

16. Beautiful fretted windows looked on to the terrace and tennis court in the garden.

17. This morning Lilian and I were late for the first class but luckily our teacher didn’t scream at us.

18. Trained birds may be devided roughly into three classes. There are those that sing, those that talk and, happily, those that do nothing at all…

19. Nicky was the last in the list but the best in the first class owing to his persistent and diligent character.

20. Miss Green organized dancing classes for girls in her imposing manner.

Exercise 2

Translate the following sentences paying attention to the adjectives in bold types. Point out their different meaning.

1. Remarkably warm for the time of the year, isn’t it?

2. He was trying to warm water for tropical flowers.

3. Whenever we spent a day in any smart place, he always used to notice the ladies clothes.

4. He might be rich, he might be smart: he was not at ease with the academics, he couldn’t talk to them as he had been able to talk to his brother-officers…

5. He seems to be quite smart and decent fellow by nature.

6. He was not allowed to say for one single minute.

7. Tom, shining of his brightness and self-respect took only a single glass of red wine.

8. There is the iguana, a lizard that looks like a bad dream.

9. This was a bad start, you had to work more seriously.

10. I hadn’t had my lunch, and I was in a bad temper on account of it.

11. I don’t mind telling you, I wasn’t very bright about it.

12. He had made a reputation as a bright young man.

13. It was a bright morning and the children were playing in the garden.

14. His head was half turned, and I could see the clear profile of his clever, thin, fine-drawn face.

15. A menu card lay by Mr. March’s place; he read it out to us with satisfaction: “clear soup, chicken fillets, caramel mouse, mushrooms on toast.”

16. I’m not clear where you come in.

17. The sky was a clear yellow, turning into green above the house tops and wireless aerials.

18. Mitchell’s voice was flat and dispassionate. He was indifferent to everything.

19. He said with curiously flat obstinacy that he was not sure of his professional skills at all.

20. There was nothing flat in his life because he tried to make it varied and had a lot of interests.