Indicate slang words in the following examples.

1. Bejees, if you think you can play me for an easy mark, you've come to the wrong house. No one ever played Harry Hope for a sucker! (E. O'Neill)

2. A cove couldn't be too careful. (D. Cusack)

3. I've often thought you'd make a corking good actress. (Th. Dreiser)

5. I steered him into a side street where it was dark and propped him against a wall and gave him a frisk. (E. O'Neill)

6."George," she said, "you're a rotten liar. . . The part about the peace of Europe is all bosh." (A. Christie)

7. All these medical bastards should go through the ops they put other people through. Then they wouldn’t talk so much bloody nonsense or be so damnably unutterably smug. (D. Cusack)

8. Don’t wanna sleep, Don’t wanna die, just wanna go a-travelin through the pastures of the sky. (T. Capote)

Make this conversation more informal by changing some of the words. Use the words from the table.

Quid bike tube cab phone Mum Dad fridge place

-Annie, can you lend me five ?

- What for?

- Well, I have to go and visit my mother and father, and my bicycle’s not working, so I’ll have to take a taxi.

- Can’t you telephone them and say you can’t come?

- Well, I could, except I want to go because they always have lots of food, and the refrigerator at our flat is empty, as usual.

- Can’t you go by Underground?

- Erm…

- Anyway, the answer’s no.

Paraphrase so as to show the different uses of the verb TO DO.

1. Have you done your homework?

2. I have to do a sum.

3. Will you please do your room?

4. Who does the cooking in your family?

5. Go and do your teeth!

6. I like the way you do your hair.

7. They do fish very well in this restaurant.

8. What subjects do you do at the University?

9. This car can do 80 miles an hour.

10. What do you do for a living?

11. That won’t do.

12. If you say it again, I’ll do you!

 

Recommended literature:

1) Galperin I.R. Stylistics –M.: Higher School, 1977.- P. 9-25,70-119.

2) Арнольд И.В. Стилистика. Современный английский язык: Учебник для вузов.- 4-е изд., испр. и доп.- М.: Флинта: Наука, 2002.- С. 13-18.

3) Гуревич В.В. English Stylistics. Стилистика английского языка: учеб. пособие/ В.В.Гуревич.- 4-е изд.-М.: Флинта: Наука, 2009.- С. 3-4, 6-10.

4) Скребнев Ю.М. Основы стилистики английского языка: Учебник для ин-тов и фак. иностр. яз.-2-е изд., испр.- М.: ООО «Издательство АСТ»: ООО «Издательство Астрель», 2000.- С. 24-27.