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Use collocations above instead of the underlined words in this conversation. The conversation has no errors, but the changes will improve it.

Mattew: Have you read that new book that has just appeared about Ireland?

Lorna: No, I don't go to bookshops and I don't read articles discussing new books. What's it about?

Mattew: Well, it concerns the Irish War of Independence. It's very authentic and it manages to give the atmosphere of Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century.

Lorna: Is it just historical facts, then?

Mattew: No, the main people are two brothers who have different opinions about the war and this divides their family. In the first chapters they're happy and do everything together, but by the last chapter they have become enemies.

Lorna: Mm, it sounds a bit depressing to me.

Mattew: Well, it certainly doesn't finish in a happy way, but I liked it, and it's recommended very much by all the critics.

Lorna: So, a book with a pleasant start and a sad finish. Not for me, I'm afraid. I prefer the opposite.

Read and translate the dialogue paying attention to the collocations in bold

Ken: I read that novel that Laura recommended. I eventually managed to wade through¹ all 400 pages, but I didn’t like it very much. It was really heavy going². It’s not what I would call a page-turner³!

Nina: Yeah. The critics in the Sunday papers certainly did a hatchet job on⁴ it.

Ken: Well, it’s pretty easy to pick holes in⁵ the plot. I didn’t think it was at all convincing.

Nina: Mind you, I could never write a short story, let alone a novel.

Ken: Yes, it’s much easier to be an armchair critic⁶, isn’t it?

¹ finish reading something, but with difficulty

² difficult to read or understand

³ a book that is so exciting that you have to read it quickly

⁴ criticised strongly and cruelly

⁵ find mistakes in; criticize

6 criticize, but without any personal expertise in what is being criticized (You can also say ‘armchair traveller’ and ‘armchair gardener’.)

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1. A) COLLOQUIAL WORDS
2. A) Match the words on the left with the expressions on the right.
3. A) Match the words to make word combinations
4. A) Practise using the words and word combinations in bold type to make other comparisons between some two-four regions of Russia. Write your best sentences down.
5. A) Read the words describing the qualities required for the legal profession and translate them into Russian. Use a dictionary.
6. A. Mind the vocabulary that you will here in the conversation.
7. A. When you start a conversation try to reply in a way that develops the conversation. Match the question with an appropriate reply.
8. Act as a teacher in class, using the material from the lectures above.
9. Analyze the meanings of the italicized words. Identify the result of the changes of the connotational aspect of lexical meaning in the given words.
10. And write your own sentences with the same words and phrases.
11. Archaic, obsolete and historic words
12. B) Comment on the fragments above.

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