Task 1: Answer the following questions: What is the subject matter of Lexicology as a linguistic science?
What are the two main types of the enquiry books?
Why are encyclopedias called ‘thing books’?
What types of American English dictionaries do you know?
What criteria for classification of linguistic dictionaries do you know?
Task 2: What dictionaries present the following information: a) the terminology related to a separate functional style? b) the origin of the lexical unit?
c) translation of the words into another language? d) who’s who information?
e) explanation of the word meaning in the same language? f) word meaning in pictures?