Magistrale - Lesson Prepartion

For 6th  November: 

 1)  Worksheet 1 - Read Thorne,S , Mastering Advanced English  Language. Chapter One (The Structure of English) then  complete.

1. Give definitions of the following terms:

Grammar 

Morphology

Syntax

Discourse

Form

Function

Phrase

Head word

Pre-modifiers

Post-modifier/qualifier

     2. Give examples of the following :

Open class words

Closed class words

Common nouns

Concrete nouns

Abstract nouns

Countable uncountable nouns

Collective nouns

modifiers

Static verbs

Dynamic verbs

Transitive verbs

Intransitive verbs

Lexical  verbs

Auxiliary verbs

Modal  verbs

The perfect aspect of verbs

The  progressive aspect

                     Finite verbs

Non-finite verbs

Adverbs of time, manner, frequency, place

Adverbs of degree

Sentence adverbs –disjuncts/conjuncts

Pronouns with  a deictic function

 The five main type of determiner

Co-ordinating conjunctions

Subordinating conjunctions

Free morphemes

Bound morphemes

Words formed by derivational morphology

 Words formed by inflectional morphology

 A noun phrase

 2) Print off the material below .

What is literature?

1.       Read the following opening lines. Which  ones do  you think  are the openings of poems?

The table below sumarises the different aspects of language in very broad terms. Using this table as a checklist,  say  which   aspects in the lines below give them a “poetic” feel.  

Meaning	e.g. Lexis ('word meaning') e.g. Semantics ('sentence meaning')
Grammar	i.e. Syntax and Morphology
Sounds/Writing Shapes	i.e. Phonology (speech) i.e. Graphology (writing)

a)      The English language,  with  its elaborate generosity, distinguishes between  the  naked and the nude.

b)      The past is forever with  me and I remember it all.

c)       The few. The Proud .The Marines.

d)      A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln  Cathedral is a piece of architecture.

e)      Water is H20,  hydrogen  two parts, oxygen  one; but there is also  a third thing that  makes it water.

f)       Have you ever spent two  and a half of your three hours allotted shopping time hunting for a parking space?

g)      Is there any knowledge in the world so  certain that man  cannot doubt it?

h)      Impossible is nothing.

i)        She had nothing to  eat.They  made a film about her because she had nothing to  eat.

j)        A young boy being led away from  a staion by his mother was brandishing a large knife with a serrated blade .It was plastic but realistic.

k)      ‘Come to  sunny Prestatyn,’ laughed the girl on the poster.

l)        A  Diamond is Forever.

40 - Love - Roger McGough

middle                           aged
couple                           playing
ten                                 nis
when                             the
game                             ends
and                                they
go                                  home
the                                 net
will                                still
be                                  be
tween                            them           

COMECLOSE AND SLEEPNOW
1	it is afterwards and you talk on tiptoe happy to be part of the darkness
5	lips becoming limp a prelude to tiredness. Comeclose and Sleepnow for in the morning when a policeman
10	disguised as the sun creeps into the room and your mother disguised as birds calls from the trees
15	you will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals and refusing coffee run alltheway
20	home
	Roger McGough

Cake by Roger McGough

i wanted one life
you wanted another
we couldn't have our cake
so we ate eachother.