Exercise 4. I. Pronounce correctly the second form of regular verbs
I. Pronounce correctly the second form of regular verbs. Lived, used, discovered, crammed, explained, imitated, looked, pointed, drooped, arrived, interested, opened, plucked, asked, cocked, hummed, enchanted, surprised, aggrieved, watched. II. Pick out compound nouns from the text, transcribe them, and put primary and secondary stresses. Exercise 5 Transcribe and intone the bit starting with 'I don't tffink I want to hear...' and ending with '... a queer word to apply to Bach.' EXERCISES Exercise 1 Match the words on the left with the meaning on the right. Adjectives: 1. curious A. thinking deeply about something 2. listless B. having no energy or enthusiasm 3. tolerant C. having or showing good reasoning power 4. pensive D. allowing other people to say and do what 5. intellectual they think is right even if one doesn't 6. tyrannical agree with it 7. patient E. being able to stay calm and not get annoyed G. unusual and interesting F. acting cruelly and unjustly towards the people who one controls Verbs: 1. totter A. make fun of somebody, deliberately 2. bully embarrass somebody 3. tease B. walk in an unsteady way 4. stir C. delight, bewitch, charm somebody 5. enchant D. care lovingly and tenderly 6. cherish E. think about something a lot seriously and 7. brood often unhappily F. excite somebody, make one react with a strong emotion G. use one's strength or power to hurt or frighten somebody Nouns: 1. gap A. the state of being unable to 2. skilunderstand something l 3. com B. mental preference, liking panion 4. inte C. the ability to understand and learnlligence 5. prethings dilection 6. mis D. a great difference between twochief 7. incomprehension E. ability to do something well F. someone who you spend time with G. naughty behaviour of children, eagerness to have fun by playing tricks or by embarrassing people Exercise 2 I. Draw lines between the pairs matching the words on the left with their opposites on the right. self-assured calm fat undelightful dark-haired inferior nervous thin, slender delicious fair-haired listless miserable superior energetic steep rough smooth sloping II. Draw lines between the pairs matching the words on the left with the words or phrases of similar meaning on the right. plump prematurely developed tiny reasonable precocious rather fat sensible odd queer exceptional extraordinary convincing cogent still motionless serious grave extremely small
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