A (SECRET) LETTER FROM AN ADMIRER

Dear Miss 1 ,

You may not recall my______ 2__ , but I met you at the

____3____ cocktail party given by our ____4____

friend____5____. We had a/an ____6____ talk about____7____ _____8_____, and I was impressed by your _____9____conversation and your grasp of^: the _____10____situation. Also, I was very much attracted by your_____11__eyes, your____12___little chin, and your ____13____ teeth. If you’ll pardon me for seeming ____14____,

I was fascinated by your _____15_____walk

and by your _____16_____figure.

I hope I made a/an____17____ impression_, and that we can

get together for a nice____18____ next week.

_________19_______________yours,

___________20_________

Complete the box where possible.

Translate the following words.

untrue, prehistoric, ultramodern, postwar, ex-champion, anti-body, decompose, decode, deform, depart, discover, disappearance, reread, reconstruct, coauthor, unequal, misunderstand, undress, disarm, anti-fascist, cooperation, co-existence, interaction, superhuman, ultra-violet.

Distribute the following words into nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs.

beautiful, function, artist, musician, heartless, economic, worker, badly, act, action, active, basic, fruitless, population, movement, historic, democratic, work, daily, literature, picture, organization, friendship, highly, leader, fight, fighter, national, im­pressive, hopeful, hopeless, beautiful, special, specialist, define, definition, humanism, humanist, humanistic, use, useful, useless.

Choose the correct word for each sentence.

1. I know Jim Kerry is very popular but I find him totally childish / childlike.

2. I couldn’t work out whom the letter was from. The signature was childish / childlike. 3. Sarah is so childish / childlike. She always plays trick on her friends.

4. It was wonderful to watch the tiny lambs playing. I got such childish / childlike pleasure from the experience.

5. Sophie is extremely sensitive / sensible at the moment. Anything you say seems to upset her.

6. Karen is not a very sensitive / sensible person. She wore high-heeled shoes for our four-mile walk.

7. I’ve never known her to tell a lie. She’s a very true / truthful person.

8. I can never watch sad films that are based on true / truthful a story. They always make me cry.

9. Susan is so intolerable / intolerant of other people. She never accepts anyone else’s opinion, and she always thinks she knows best.

10. I find Mark’s behaviour intolerable / intolerant. It’s unfair to be so selfish.

11. We’re having an economic / economical crisis at the moment. James has lost his job and I don’t know how we are going to pay the rent.

12. It’s more economic / economical to drive slowly. You can do a lot more miles to the gallop.

Make a negative form of the words by using the prefix or suffix.

kind, honest, credible, appear, fair, equal, pleased, continue, fasten, normal, employed, friendly, trust, professional, known, cover, safe, use, probable, important, emotional.

State the verb from which the noun is derived.

protection, show, writer, worker, movement, investigation, achievement, statement, reader, department, equipment, construction, organization, reporter, arrival, improvement, conductor, establishment, development, education, definition, regulation, assistance, agreement.

Define the meaning of the following prefixes. Translate the words into Russian.

coauthor, undress, disarm, postwar, illegal, unkind, reconstruct, deformation, prewar, antibody, ex-champion, superhuman, ultrashort.

Define the part of speech of the following words and translate them into Russian.

powerful, inventor, high-quality, network, demoralize, profitable, dislike, disagree, movement, shorten, incorrect, electricity, fruitful, fruitless, happiness, dangerous, noisy, sunny, rainy, badly, strongly, reading, teaching, rebuild, retell, leader, teacher, unhappy, unusual, translation, cooperation, schoolboy, icebreaker.

Translate the following words. Mind the suffixes or prefixes.

untrue, prehistoric, ultramodern, postwar, ex-champion, anti-body, decompose, decode, deform, depart, discover, disappearance, reread, reconstruct, coauthor, unequal, misunderstand, undress, disarm, anti-fascist, cooperation, co-existence, interaction, superhuman, ultra-violet.