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ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS BOOK INTRODUCTION UNIT 1: THE BANQUET 1.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS 1.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 1.2.1. Learning new words and phrases 1.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms 1.2.3. Antonyms 1.2.4. Polysemic terms: cheek; spring; stuff; tie; to care; to polish; tough 1.2.5. Homonyms: felt; left; to like/like 1.2.6. Lexical fields: a) types of chairs and seats; b) types of dwelling; c) shellfish/seafood; d) types of car; e) drugs and drug-related terms; f) death; g) crime/criminals 1.2.7. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: a) complaining; b) murmur; c) take hold of 1.2.8. Metonymy and metaphor 1.2.9. Grammatical collocations 1.2.10. Lexical collocations: to seize, to grab, to grasp, to grip, to clutch, to cling, to snatch, to clasp 1.2.11. Word-formation: borrowings from the French in the lexical field of food 1.2.12. Words easily confused: course/dish/plate 1.2.13. Idioms 1.2.14. Phrasal verbs 1.2.15. False friends 1.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY 1.3.1. Homophones 1.3.2. Homographs 1.3.3. Silent letters: p, w 1.3.4. Graphemes: , 1.4. GRAMMAR REVISION 1.4.1. Time subordinate clauses with as 1.4.2. that-nominal clauses with omission of that 1.4.3. accusative + infinitive equivalent to a Spanish subjunctive 1.4.4. subordinate clauses of result 1.4.5. conjuncts 1.5. EXERCISES UNIT 2: THE PREGNANT WOMAN 2.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS 2.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 2.2.1. Learning new words and phrases 2.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms 2.2.3. Antonyms 2.2.4. Polysemic terms: fit; rash; shattered 2.2.5. Homonyms: bank; mine; well 2.2.6. Metonymy and metaphor 2.2.7. Lexical fields: a) illnesses; b) banking terms 2.2.8. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: a) looking; b) breaking 2.2.9. Grammatical collocations 2.2.10. Lexical collocations: to put/to set/to lay 2.2.11. Word-formation: a) suffixes used to form abstract nouns; b) eponyms 2.2.12. Idioms with the word point 2.2.13. Register: a) to die; b) not to care 2.2.14. Euphemism and dysphemism 2.2.15. Cultural notes 2.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY 2.3.1. Homophones 2.3.2. Homographs 2.3.3. Silent letters: b, k 2.3.4. Graphemes: , , , , , 2.4. GRAMMAR REVISION 2.4.1. complex transitive complementation 2.4.2. contact clauses 2.4.3. concessive clauses 2.4.4. cleft and pseudo-cleft sentences 2.4.5. would for habit 2.4.6. binomials 2.5. EXERCISES UNIT 3: THE IDEAL COUPLE 3.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS 3.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 3.2.1. Learning new words and phrases 3.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms 3.2.3. Antonyms 3.2.4. Polysemic terms: to go by; trunk 3.2.5. Homonyms: bear; may 3.2.6. Lexical fields: a) underwear; b) musical instruments; c) cooking terms; d) parts of a car 3.2.7. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: enjoyment/happiness/pleasure 3.2.8. Metonymy and metaphor 3.2.9. Words easily confused: to earn/to win/ to gain/ to beat 3.2.10. Lexical collocations: to do/to make 3.2.11. Differences BrE and AmE 3.2.12. False friends 3.2.13. Word-formation: compound nouns/compound adjectives/compound verbs/reduplicatives; clippings 3.2.14. Idioms 3.2.15. Phrasal verbs 3.2.16. Cultural notes 3.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY 3.3.1. Homophones 3.3.2. Homographs 3.3.3. Silent letters: n 3.3.4. Graphemes: , , 3.3.5. Differences BrE/AmE 3.4. GRAMMAR REVISION 3.4.1. purpose infinitive 3.4.2. non-defining relative clauses 3.4.3. ing-clauses with concessive value 3.4.4. that-nominal clauses as subject 3.4.5. words that only occur in the plural 3.5. EXERCISES UNIT 4: ALL IN A DAY’S WORK 4.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS 4.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 4.2.1. Learning new words and phrases 4.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms 4.2.3. Antonyms 4.2.4. Polysemic terms: book/to book; faint 4.2.5. Homonyms: seal; sole 4.2.6. Metonymy and metaphor 4.2.7. Lexical fields: a) birds; b) sports; c) internal organs 4.2.8. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: a) resulting linking verbs; b) ways of drinking; c) smiling; d) writing down; e) child 4.2.9. Grammatical collocations 4.2.10. Lexical collocations: resulting linking verbs 4.2.11. False friends 4.2.12. Differences BrE/AmE 4.2.13. Word formation: suffixes used to form abstract nouns: -al, -ment, -ation, -ness, -ance, -ity 4.2.14. Idioms 4.2.15. Phrasal verbs 4.2.16. Cultural notes 4.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY 4.3.1. Homophones 4.3.2. Graphemes: , , 4.3.3. gonna = going to 4.4. GRAMMAR REVISION 4.4.1. conditional sentences: type 3 4.4.2. verbs of perception + infinitive without to 4.4.3. contact clauses 4.4.4. to + -ing form 4.4.5. what-nominal clauses 4.4.6. collective nouns 4.5. EXERCISES UNIT 5: INVITATION TO MURDER 5.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS 5.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 5.2.1. Learning new words and phrases 5.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms 5.2.3. Antonyms 5.2.4. Polysemic terms 5.2.5. Homonyms: race, fair 5.2.6. Metonymy and metaphor 5.2.7. Lexical fields: a) containers; b) cutlery and tableware; c) legal terms 5.2.8. Grammatical collocations 5.2.9. Lexical collocations: to drop 5.2.10. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: killing 5.2.11. Words easily confused: classic/classical; economic/economical; historic/historical 5.2.12. Word-formation: the prefix out-; the suffix -less 5.2.13. Idioms 5.2.14. Phrasal verbs 5.2.15. Cultural notes 5.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY 5.3.1. Homophones 5.3.2. Homographs 5.3.3. Silent letters: b 5.3.4. Graphemes: 5.4. GRAMMAR REVISION 5.4.1. conditional sentences with unless 5.4.2. adjective post-modifiers 5.4.3. causative have 5.4.4. di-transitive complementation 5.4.5. partitives 5.5. EXERCISES UNIT 6: HIS ONLY TRUE LOVE 6.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS 6.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 6.2.1. Learning new words and phrases 6.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms 6.2.3. Antonyms 6.2.4. Polysemic terms: brief, slip, smart, sound 6.2.5. Homonyms: date; must; saw; to mean/mean 6.2.6. Metonymy and metaphor 6.2.7. Lexical fields: a) hairstyle; b) clothes; c) describing clothes; d) colours 6.2.8. Grammatical collocations 6.2.9. Lexical collocations: to throw, to cast 6.2.10. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: throwing 6.2.11. Words easily confused: to miss/to lose/to waste 6.2.12. Word-formation: suffixes used to form adjectives expressing quality: -al, -ic, -ive, -ous, etc.; -hood 6.2.13. Idioms with the word way 6.2.14. Phrasal verbs 6.2.15. Cultural notes 6.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY 6.3.1. Homophones 6.3.2. Homographs 6.3.3. Silent letters: h, s 6.3.4. Graphemes: 6.4. GRAMMAR REVISION 6.4.1. that in adverbial subordinates of reason 6.4.2. noun phrase post-modifiers 6.4.3. contact clauses 6.4.4. make + infinitive without to 6.4.5. let + infinitive without to 6.4.6. one as a prop word 6.5. EXERCISES UNIT 7: THE MAN WHO COULD GET NO SLEEP 7.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS 7.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 7.2.1. Learning new words and phrases 7.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms 7.2.3. Antonyms 7.2.4. Lexical fields: a) the weather; b) (minor) health problems 7.2.5. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: a) hurting and damaging; b) sleeping 7.2.6. Polysemic terms: to take 7.2.7. Lexical collocations: to take 7.2.8. Grammatical collocations 7.2.9. False friends 7.2.10. Word-formation: out-, over-; under- 7.2.11. Idioms 7.2.12. Phrasal verbs 7.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY 7.3.1. Homophones 7.3.2. Pronunciation of the plural -s 7.3.3. Graphemes: , , 7.4. GRAMMAR REVISION 7.4.1. inversion of as in concessive clauses 7.4.2. that-nominal clauses 7.4.3. that-relative clauses 7.4.4. conjuncts 7.4.5. purpose infinitive 7.4.6. to-infinitive as nominal clause 7.5. EXERCISES UNIT 8: INSPECTOR CAULDER’S LAST CASE 8.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS 8.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 8.2.1. Learning new words and phrases 8.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms 8.2.3. Antonyms 8.2.4. Homonyms: kind, mole 8.2.5. Polysemic terms: spot, stroke 8.2.6. Lexical fields: a) the language of airports; b) flowers and plants; c) trees and shrubs; d) fish; e) breeds of dog 8.2.7. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: shining 8.2.8. Grammatical collocations 8.2.9. Lexical collocations: shining; issue; headlines; to visit 8.2.10. Word-formation: -ful/-less; conversion; negative prefixes; French borrowings 8.2.11. Idioms 8.2.12. Register: to kill 8.2.13. Phrasal verbs 8.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY 8.3.1. Graphemes: , 8.4. GRAMMAR REVISION 8.4.1. non-defining relative clauses 8.4.2. concessive clauses 8.4.3. by-agent in passive clauses 8.4.4. -ing-participle clauses 8.5. EXERCISES UNIT 9: THE FAMOUS PSYCHIATRIST 9.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS 9.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 9.2.1. Learning new words and phrases 9.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms 9.2.3. Antonyms 9.2.4. Homonyms: arm; lay/to lay; to lie; low/to low; match; temple 9.2.5. Polysemic terms: match/to match; to pick up; sharp 9.2.6. Lexical fields: a) medical specialists; b) parts of the head; c) house furniture; d) other objects and things in the house; e) in the kitchen; f) in the bathroom 9.2.7. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: walking 9.2.8. Word-formation: over-; -en; -ed-compound adjectives 9.2.9. Idioms 9.2.10. Phrasal verbs 9.2.11. Cultural notes 9.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY 9.3.1. Silent letters: p; t; d 9.3.2. Graphemes: in verbs and in adjectives 9.4. GRAMMAR REVISION 9.4.1. for as a conjunction of reason 9.4.2. enough with adjectives and other adverbs 9.4.3. optional use of if and whether 9.4.4. obligatory use of whether 9.4.5. if-nominal clauses 9.4.6. anaphoric use of to 9.5. EXERCISES UNIT 10: THE CANDIDATE 10.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS 10.2. Semantic analysis 10.2.1. Learning new words and phrases 10.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms 10.2.3. Antonyms 10.2.4. Polysemic terms: concern; to deliver; issue 10.2.5. Lexical fields: a) rooms and parts of the house; b) footwear 10.2.6. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: shouting 10.2.7. Words easily confused: to expect/to wait/to hope 10.2.8. Grammatical collocations 10.2.9. Lexical collocations: to run; to tackle; to raise; to rise 10.2.10. Word-formation: adjectives ending in -ous; conversion 10.2.11. Idioms 10.2.12. Phrasal verbs 10.2.13. Differences BrE/AmE 10.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY 10.3.1. Silent letters: l, g 10.3.2. Graphemes: , 10.4. GRAMMAR REVISION 10.4.1. may used to indicate possibility or probability 10.4.2. must used to indicate necessity 10.4.3. -ing-participle clauses 10.4.4. nominalized adjectives 10.4.5. conditional sentences: type 2 10.5. EXERCISES UNIT 11: JOHN FAT 11.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS 11.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 11.2.1. Learning new words and phrases 11.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms 11.2.3. Antonyms 11.2.4. Polysemic terms: case; patient; tyre 11.2.5. Lexical fields: a) the human body; b) shops; c) alcoholic drinks 11.2.6. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: laughing 11.2.7. Words easily confused: to argue/to discuss; to remember/to remind; to fit/to suit 11.2.8. Grammatical collocations 11.2.9. Lexical collocations: to watch 11.2.10. Word-formation: negative prefixes; conversion 11.2.11. Register 11.2.12. Euphemisms and dysphemisms 11.2.13. Idioms 11.2.14. Phrasal verbs 11.2.15. Cultural notes 11.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY 11.3.1. Homophones 11.3.2. Graphemes: , 11.4. GRAMMAR REVISION 11.4.1. disjuncts 11.4.2. inversion of as in concessive clauses 11.4.3. inversion of as in clauses of reason 11.4.4. as in adverbial clauses of manner 11.4.5. as in adverbial clauses of reason 11.4.6. as in adverbial clauses of time 11.4.7. nominal clauses in apposition 11.5. EXERCISES UNIT 12: THE SAPIENT FOOL 12.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS 12.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 12.2.1. Learning new words and phrases 12.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms 12.2.3. Antonyms 12.2.4. Homonyms: grave; pupil 12.2.5. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: shaking 12.2.6. Lexical fields: terms used to describe people’s character 12.2.7. Grammatical collocations 12.2.8. Lexical collocations: to summon 12.2.9. Words easily confused: sympathetic/likeable 12.2.10. Word-formation: French borrowings; blends/portmanteau words; eponyms; conversion; -dom 12.2.11. Idioms 12.2.12. Phrasal verbs 12.2.13. Cultural notes 12.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY 12.3.1. Graphemes: 12.4. GRAMMAR REVISION 12.4.1. where as a relative pronoun 12.4.2. order of adjectives in attributive position 12.4.3. whose 12.4.4. the royal we 12.4.5. special uses of shall 12.4.6. here, there and where compound adverbs 12.5. EXERCISES UNIT 13: TRAIN STORIES 13.1. SUGGESTED READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS WITH THEIR ANSWERS UNIT 14: ANIMAL SCHOOL 14.1. SUGGESTED READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS WITH THEIR ANSWERS 14.2. IDIOMS USED IN THE STORY 14.3. ANIMALS (SUGGESTED LEXICAL FIELD) 14.4. ANIMALS’ CRIES UNIT 15: THE GREAT EVENT 15.1. SUGGESTED READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS WITH THEIR ANSWERS UNIT 16: BRUSHING UP PHRASAL VERBS 16.1. SUGGESTED READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS WITH THEIR ANSWERS 16.2. PHRASAL VERBS AND PHRASAL NOUNS USED IN THE STORY UNIT 17: THE JOURNALIST 17.1. SUGGESTED READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS WITH THEIR ANSWERS UNIT 18: ENGLISH FROM THE STICK OR A CURIOUS CASE OF SPANGLISH 18.1. SUGGESTED READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS WITH THEIR ANSWERS 18.2. ENGLISH IDIOMS ALLUDED TO IN THE STORY UNIT 19: HIS LAST LESSON 19.1. SUGGESTED READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS WITH THEIR ANSWERS UNIT 20: LANGUAGE’S LAST POEM 20.1. SUGGESTED READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS WITH THEIR ANSWERS KEY TO THE EXERCISES BIBLIOGRAPHY CONSULTED
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