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11184665- Phạm Thị Thêu
11184665- Phạm Thị Thêu
2. In each example, which is a compound, which is a free word group and their meanings?
a. The beautiful dancing girl is a dancing girl.
A girl who is working in the field of dance
The girl who is dancing is beautiful
b. The White House is a white house but no other white house can be the White House.
Compound: Where the American Presidents live
Free word group: a house is white
c. On the red tape there is a lot of information about the government offices typical of red
tape.
Compound: bureaucracy
Free word group: a tape that is red
e. "She bought a lot of things: beef, cabbages, milk, bread and butter"
"- Yes, she is very fond of bread and butter".
Two diffrent foods
ONE Type of food
4.Make up four compound words with suffix "-ing " and four with "-ed ".
ground-breaking
angry-sounding
cooking oil
parking ticket
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short-sighted
semi-skilled
long-haired
thick-lipped
A man who is very attractive to women/ a person who will kill women.
6. ABC compound words. Fill in each blank line with a word to make a compound word.
Example: some_________ (somewhere)
A. apple___sauce_____ M. man____made________
B. bird___cage_____ N. night____fall_________
C. cow____boy____ O. out______line______
D. door____bell____ P. pen_____house________
E. every___time_____ Q. quick___sand____
F. foot_____ball___ R. rain____bow____
G. gold____fish____ S. sun____set_____
H. head___line_____ T. table____cloth_____
I. ice____berg____ U. under______wear______
J. jelly___fish_____ V. view_____point________
K. king____sman____ W. wall_____paper_____
L. life____hack____ Y. year_____book______
Z. zoo___keeper______
7. Read the text and underline the compound words. Write them in the list.
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feeling agreeably warm during the sunnier spells. This could lead to occasional
thunderstorms.
Please remember to put your clocks backward one hour when British summertime
finishes at 2 a.m. on Saturday morning.
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19. I looked at the sea, which was rather blue but also rather green. => I looked at the
bluegreen sea.
20. The experiment was done with balloons filled with gas. => The experiments was done
with gas-filled balloons.
Baby sister
Contact lens
Youth hostel
Birth control
Grass roots
Greenhouse effect
Hay fever
Tin opener
Package holiday