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KEY TO THE TASKS TASK 1: FIND FOUR WORDS THAT ARE RELATED IN MEANING TO THE UNDERLINED WORDS. table | star coffee turn furniture chair round lie sick crime | offence built-up area commit dunce carry out sin force arson coffee table, round table — habitual collocations; table is a kind of furniture (hyponymy); turn the tables — an idiom Offence is more or less synonymous with crime, but it seems to have a broader meaning; crime and sin are also synonymous to some extent, but sin is a moral, while crime a legal concept; arson is a kind of (hyponym) of crime; commit a crime is a collocation TASK 2: WHICH OF THESE PHRASES WOULD YOU CLASS AS A. FORMAL, B. NEUTRAL, AND C. INFORMAL? A. FORMAL: Participants are kindly requested to remove their hats. Convey to them our thanks. Particular mention should be made of... I am open to correction here. Hereby I second the motion. I propose to look briefly at the history of interest in the problem before turning to an assessment of the present situation and approaches to its solution B. INFORMAL: There’s neither rhyme nor reason in his behaviour. This will cook Arthur’s goose. All that glitters is not gold. He’s as blind as a bat. I’ve been working like a dog. I told him to keep off the grass. I tell you he’s a liar. Go tell it to the marines, they will believe everything. I have lots of other battles to fight. Are you sure you re all right? — Stop nagging me; I’m perfectly all right. Here I want to spend some time - ing then spend some time on I want to have a short peek at + 249 +
