- •1. Advice
- •2. Alive, live, living, lively
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •3. Alone, lonely
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •4. Awake, awaken, wake, waken
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •5. Childish, childlike
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •6. Cloth, cloths, clothes
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •7. Comic, comical
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •8. Comprehensive, comprehensible
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •9. Concert, concerto
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •10. Conscious, conscientious; consciousness, conscience
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •11. Considerable, considerate
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •12. Contemptuous, contemptible
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •13. Content, contents
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •14. Continual, continuous
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •15. Distinct, distinctive
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •16. Economic, economical
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •17. Effective, effectual, efficient, efficacious
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •18. Elementary, elemental
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •19. Favourite, favourable
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •20. Hair
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •21. Hard, hardly
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •22. Historic, historical
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •23. Imaginative, imaginable, imaginary
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •24. Incredible, incredulous
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •25. Industrial, industrious
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •26. Intellectual, intelligent, intelligible
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •28. Literal, literary, literate
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •29. Military, militant
- •Introductory material
- •Revision Exercises
- •30. Money
- •Introductory material
- •Revision Exercises
- •31. News
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •32. Politics/policy
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •33. Rise, arise, raise, rouse, arouse
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •34. Sensible, sensitive
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •35. Successful, successive
- •Introductory material
- •Exercises
- •Revision Exercises
- •1. The use of some numerals and nouns expressing number
- •Exercises
- •2. Some pronouns followed by an Of-phrase (some, any, anyone, none, either, neitner, each) examples
- •Exercises
- •3. (The) other(s), another examples
- •Exercises
- •4. (A) few, (a) little examples
- •Exercises
- •Examples
- •Exercises
- •6. The place of enough examples
- •Exercises
- •7. There is (there are) in negative constructions examples
- •Exercises
- •8. The verb to have in negative sentences examples
- •Exercises
- •9. The use of the verb to make examples
- •Exercises
- •10. Yes and no used in replies to negative questions or statements examples
- •Exercises
- •11. Тоо and either examples
- •Exercises
- •12. Adjectives in the function of a predicative (not to be confused with adverbs) examples
- •Exercises
- •13. Personal pronouns as part of the subject examples
- •Exercises
- •14. The pronoun who in complex sentences examples
- •Exercises
- •15. Object clauses beginning with interrogative pronouns or adverbs examples
- •Exercises
- •General revision
- •Exercises on the Text
- •Text 2. An evening with george
- •Exercises on the Text
- •Exercises on the Text
- •Contents
Revision Exercises
(based on the Introductory Material)
Exercise 1. Make up several questions of different types (including indirect questions) based on the following sentences: 9, 11, 13.
Exercise 2. Make up several sentences on the analogy of sentences 8, 11, 13.
Exercise 3. Comment on the following sentences: 3, 5, ,10, 13.
Exercise 4. Develop the following sentences into short situations: 1, 9.
Exercise 5. Build dialogues round the following sentences: 7, 13, 15.
18. Elementary, elemental
Introductory material
Read and translate the following sentences paying special attention to the words in bold type.
1. A thousand engineers with no more than elementary pfvysks could learn to do a stress analysis on airplane wings. 2. «Are you trying to teach me my job?» asked Dickie, who was cross and confused. «Not your job,» Brett said. «Just the most elementary psychology.» 3. The upper storey has double openings on each side with pointed arches and in some cases some elementary tracery above. 4. Even the elementary words «cold» and «hot» have had overtones of horror added to them by the international situation. 5. Sherlock Holmes was irritated when his friend, Dr Watson, did not follow what Holmes called his elementary deductions. 6. Before the first war, according to an article by Taylor Starch, Baltimore had four elementary schools in which all teaching was carried out in German. 7. Thanks to this and other elementary precautions against fate, she and her husband would rise out of poverty to a better life. 8. The designer’s stageset and backcloth had an elemental grandeur which well fitted «Macbeth». 9. To join up would mean adventure, a new life, comradeship, elemental things, perhaps death. 10. There was something vaguely indecent in the sight, this food of the people, this elemental force, this basic energy, weltering here under the sun in all the unconscious nakedness of a sprawling, primordial Titan. 11. It was the original, intended and natural delicacy of-an elemental existence, close to nature, close to. life, close to the great, kindly earth. 12. Gradually he (Hundt) had anaesthetized her scruples and her inhibitions and awakened elemental forces in her.
EXPLANATORY NOTES
Elementary adj. In the beginning stage; not developed; simple; rudimentary; introductory, e.g. ~ arithmetic, ~ rules of conduct, an ~ conception of smth., an ~ treatise, an ~ writer.
Derivative: elementarily adv.
Elemental adj. 1. Pertaining to any or all of the «four elements»—-earth, air, fire and water (out of which, according to ancient philosophers, the material universe was thought to be composed); of the forces of nature, e.g. ~ strife. 2. Comparable to the great forces of nature; basic and powerful, e.g. ~ passions, ~ drive. 3. Primal, essential.
Derivative: elementally adv.
Elementary (элементарный, простой; простейший, начальный) pertains to rudiments or beginnings; elemental (стихийный, природный, неудержимый; основной; начальный) pertains to the elements, especially to the ultimate constituents or forces.