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- •Laboratory work 2
- •Practice: Task 17
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- •Conversion Task 20
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- •Laboratory work 3
- •Practice: Task 33
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- •Practice: shortening Task 39
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- •Word-formation Task 45
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- •Laboratory work 5
- •Practice: Task 75
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- •5. Tiresome because it seems to be interminable or to be marked by unremitting sameness
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Task 83
Find 1-2 homonyms proper to the following words. Use an English-English dictionary.
1. ash 6. loom
2. balk 7. mint
3. cape 8. paddy
4. corn 9. painter
5. graze 10. ram
Task 84
Are the underlined words homophones?
1. a) So Bullard and his dog set out through the park each day in quest of new faces (K. Vonnegut Jr).
b) To dispel emphatically his uneasy advantage over his sleeping brother, he threw himself on the hump of Eugie's body (G. Berriault).
2. a) George said that in that case we must take a rug each, a lamp, some soap, a brush and comb (between us), a toothbrush (each), a basin, some tooth-powder, some shaving tackle (sounds like a French exercise doesn't it?), and a couple of big towels for bathing (J.K. Jerome).
b) Will you have some soup before the meat course? (Oxford Advanced Learner's Encyclopedic Dictionary).
3. a) Bassett was serious as a church (D.H. Lawrence).
b) The right wall was one unbroken series of open doorways, and in each of the rooms, whose interiors we could plainly see, were one or more of the Inca Women... (R. Stout).
4. a) They had fried chicken and corn pudding and rich, glazed candied sweet potatoes (C. McCullers).
b) Now then, why didn't I compel him to be more candid? (J.M. Cain).
5. a) His usually red face was quite purple with anger (A. Christie).
b) There was my cousin Georgia in town, and all she had to do was watch a little girl who wore thick, glasses and was sort of strange, but very nice and quiet and no trouble, and she'd get two dollars (J.C. Dates).
6. a) Don't you have a key to this door? (English Guides: Homophones).
b) There I lay on the hard stones of the quay, feeling very much inclined to laugh, but looking, no doubt, very blue and ghastly (A.C. Doyle).
7. a) As a rule the Boran are very brave indeed, and are among the few African tribes who still hunt lions with a spear (J. Adamson).
b)His hair was receding and the veins in his now naked temples were pulsing and prominent and his body was spare except for an incipient belly bulge (C. McCullers).
8. a) Now she could marry Joe McClain, who comes over for supper almost every night, always bringing something special, such as a roast or dessert (B.A. Mason).
b) It was my first close contact with desert land and it was like rattling madly through space that didn't mean anything (J.M. Cain).
9. a) Smith had missed the first match having a bruised toe examined in hospital (English Guides: Homophones).
b) Five hours of backbreaking work for the men on both ships saw the tow secured (R.S. Porteous).
10. a) The shirt-sleeved man in the sheriff’s office said that the sheriff was at Carlson's Parlour examining the Curwing boy (G. Berriault).
b) Then he picked up the paddle and paddled out to a sailboat that was moored to a round white block of wood that he called a buoy (J.M. Cain).
11. a) He looked like a bear in the picture I'd seen once (J. Schumacher).
b) Mrs. Mooney's young men paid fifteen shillings a week for board and lodgings (beer or stout at dinne rexcluded) (J.Joyce). 12. a) She slipped into a kimono and in her bare feet went over to her dressing-table (W.S. Maugham).
b) Just bear that in mind (N. Shute).
13. a) So then Grant came over and put his arm around his mother and had tears in his eyes and I didn't believe for a second that she was as sweet as she pretended to be... (J.M. Cain).
b) He stopped and sopped the sweat off his forehead, and smiled (E. Haycox).
14. a) When he turned away, not meeting her eyes, her lips made a sweet line across her dark face, a softly maternal expression showing (E. Haycox).
b) So I made inquiries, and finally located a hotel, the Hutton, on West 58th Street, which catered to women; and had a desirable suite which would shortly become vacant, consisting of living room, bedroom, bath and pantry, for $150 a month (J.M. Cain).