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SYNONYMS AND REGISTER
1. Select synonymic words from the box matching the words below.

peculiar, extraneous, adjacent, plentiful, significant, proximate, evident, nearby, momentous, strange, discriminating, weird, explicit, multitudinous, obvious, abundant

neighbouring	________________	________________	________________
historic	________________	________________
distinctive	________________	________________
numerous	________________	________________	________________
apparent	________________	________________	________________
alien	________________	________________	________________

2. Fill the gaps with the words from the text that have the same meaning as the words in brackets.

1. 
   The sample of people questioned was drawn from the university's student register and … by age and gender. (stratified)
   
2. 
   It is … to all of us that to reduce pollution we must use cars less. (clear)
   
3. 
   Sportsmen … be nervous before the performances. (are sure to)
   
4. 
   Your judgments … with objective facts. (are hardly connected)
   
5. 
   Maths is an … part of the school curriculum. (inherent)
   

3. Provide more formal equivalents to the following expressions.

1. 
   to lack the power to analyse – ………………………………………………
   
2. 
   the untrained ear – …………………………………………………………..
   
3. 
   to lump together – ………………………………………………. …………
   
4. 
   a host of dialects – ………………………………………………. …………
   
5. 
   to go through different parts of the educational machine – ……………………………………………………………………………….
   
6. 
   to find the subject a trifle indelicate – ………………………………………………………………………………
   
7. 
   to end up in smth. – ……………………………………………….……….
   

4. Replace the phrases in bold with one of the words or word combinations from the box in the correct form.

finer differences	to lump together	the untrained eye
graded	a host	posh
	alien

1. 
   Most fake diamonds might look real to someone without the skill.
   
2. 
   The new director faced a whole array of problems with the staff.
   
3. 
   His upper-class accent annoyed her.
   
4. 
   All the children are grouped together in one class, regardless of their ability.
   
5. 
   A professional dialectologist is able to notice minute distinctions in the speech of representatives of different dialects.
   
6. 
   When I first went to China, it seemed completely strange to me.
   
7. 
   The course-books are differentiated according to the difficulty of the language.
   

Section 3
ASSIGNMENTS FOR TEXT ANALYSIS IN TERMS OF
TEXTLINGUISTIC CATEGORIES
3.1. The Categories of Informativity and Presupposition

1. 
   Present the text taking into account the branch of knowledge it belongs to, the source it comes from, its title and the author.
   
2. 
   Which type of information is the text in question characterized by?
   
3. 
   Formulate the main concern of the text.
   
4. 
   Say into how many conceptual paragraphs the factual information of the text falls. Briefly summarize each of them, making up an outline, the items of which serving as key points of each conceptual paragraph.
   
5. 
   Find facts pertaining to the administrative division of England and comment on the background information underlying them and thus relevant in terms of the category of presupposition.
   
6. 
   Account for the author’s choice of the representatives of the two different social classes – an Eton boy and a Cockney boy – to illustrate his statement that the ordinary speaker’s perception of the style of speech is rather due to associations than to the intrinsic qualities of the language itself?
   
7. 
   Comment on the background information of cultural and philological significance in respect to the following names mentioned in the text: Professor Higgins, J.B. Priestly and his Yorkshire characters and Jimmy Porter.