1) Worksheet 1 - Read Thorne,S , Mastering Advanced English Language. Chapter One (The Structure of English) then complete.
- 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.
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- 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
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.
you wanted another
we couldn't have our cake
so we ate eachother.
