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(Compound adjectives)
11.2.1. Give word combinations which correspond to compound adjectives. Give their meanings: an apple-eating boy, a watch-making plant, a cloud-touching mountain, horse-loving people, a pain-killing medicine, a food-producing factory, a road-building firm, potato-growing regions.
11.2.2. Make compound adjectives using the following word combinations. Translate them: to carry oil, to grow roses, to make profit, to save money, to melt snow, to break ice, to love sport, to waste time, to hate war.
11.2.3. Translate the following sentences:
1. Some of his money-making movie stars were getting older now.
2. Coffee-drinking farmers sat or stood in the bar.
3. Traffic-directing policemen and one-way streets are clear proof of the existence of a large volume of traffic.
4. I'm going into the house-selling business on my own.
5. Many of the calls came from the news-hunting journalists.
Full understanding
11.3.1. Смотрите, слушайте, повторяйте:
President, nation, Capitol, Congress, republic, Senate ['senIt], monument, million, business, culture, avenue ['{vInjü], contrast, bar, elegant.
Geographical and proper names: George Washington, Potomac River [po(u)'toum@k], District of Columbia, the United States, Chicago [SIfi'kÓgou], Philadelphia [fil@'delfI@], Detroit, Los Angeles, House of Representatives, Union Square, Lincoln Memorial, Pennsylvania Avenue [,pensIl'venj@], White House, Manhattan, Hudson River, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Richmond, Empire State Building ['empaI@], World Trade Centre, Times Square, Harlem.
*11.3.2. Смотрите, слушайте, повторяйте, запомните:
New words:
letter — письмо
native town — родной город
to walk — гулять
to be interested — интересоваться
law-making — законодательный
to be born — родиться
to publish — публиковать
to grow — расти
force — (зд.) полицейские силы
School vocabulary:
although, around, to lead, January, favourite, to lie, river, children, language, to die, each, lighting, dirty, tree, town.
*11.3.3. Прочитайте и переведите:
