Task 4: Give the British spelling of the following words:
humor, apologize, center, pretense, inflexion, jewelry, quarreled, woolen, harbor, pijamas, gipsy, program
Task 5: Analyse the structure of the following American words, and decide what are the most productive word building means in American English.
rattlesnake, movies, backwoods, to park, sweet-potato, dorm, egg-plant, ok, cat-bird, ad, blue-grass, to interview, talkies, sun-fish, to advocate, perm, bull-frog, gym, to jail, auto, copperhead,
Task 8: The following passage, liberally sprinkled with bits of Cockney rhyming slang, may be hard to interpret. Try to work out what the whole phrase must be as well as the meaning.
I got up this morning, brushed my 'Amsteads and my Barnet, kissed the dustbin lids and put on my tit for to go for a ball up the frog. I didn't have much bees, but I still put an Oxford on a Charing Cross that came in at 20 to 1. I could hardly Adam my Donald! So I went to the rub-a-dub and had a pig's with some chinas. Only one, though, because I didn't want to be elephant's when I got home to the trouble.
Some tips to this exercise on Cockney:
Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |