EXERCISE 3.

a) Translate, analyse the following words with different suffixes, and divide them into two groups: nouns and adjectives:

literature, division, fiction, imagination, situation, creative, reader, experience, language, enjoyment, personal, critical, different, information, pleasure, possible, solution, fiction, historical, psychological, sentimental, character, actor, direction, appearance, action, conversation, lyric, narrative, dramatic;

 

b) The word in capitals at the end of each of the following sentences should be changed to form a word that fits suitably in the blank space:

It is difficult to be ... to her. DIFFER.

Stage directions describe the ... of the characters. ACT.

Creative ... enjoy this book. READ.

We read this article for ... INFORM.

It is difficult to describe her ... APPEAR.

 

EXERCISE 4.

a) Try to match up the adjectives in column A With the nouns in column В to form meaningful phrases. Use these word combinations in the sentences of your own:

А	В
1) creative	a) divisions
2) narrative	b) experience
3) imaginary	c) writing
4) complicated	d) reader
5) definite	e) situation
6) critical	f) enjoyment
7) fine	g) arts
8) deep	h) people
9) main	i) rhythm
10) own	j) skills

 

b) Decide which of the verbs on the left collocate with the nouns on the right:

1) to create from	a) a horse
2) to judge	b) the piece of writing
3) to broaden	c) a solution
4) to arrange	d) the words
5) to ride	e) the husband
6) to persuade	f) the taxes
7) to lower	g) the appearance
8) to include	h) imagination
9) to find	i) the reading
10) to describe	j) the essay

 

EXERCISE 5. Translate the following word combinations; pay attention to the prepositions:

from the Latin word, in its broadest sense, one of the fine arts, from imagination, about real persons, with imaginary situations, in the page, leads to the deepest enjoyment, no rules for judging, develop with use, are fond of reading, for different reasons, for information, pleasure in learning, solutions to our problems, in books, about events, deal with a great variety of subjects, around a single incident, because of its shorter length, by actors on the stage, actions of characters, the form of dialogue, between two or more persons, in a pattern with a definite rhythm, at the end of the lines.