MINITASKS     UPDATED march 2005

1.      Definitions of : hacker, cracker, lamer, wanna be, malware, software, hardware,adware,spyware.

2.      Find as many words as you can that end in –ee.

3.      Make a list of false cognates. In the first column write the word in English, in the second, the false Spanish meaning, and in the third, the true meaning in English.

4.      Look up the meaning of the following words: state, country, nation

5.      Look for synoyms of the word “town”( one-horse town, ghost town, village, hamlet, town, city, settlement,

6.      Define connotation and denotation

7.      Define the word “collocation” and give examples.

8.      Difference between “to wait”, “to expect” and “to hope” with examples.

9.      Differences between american and british english.

10.  Nouns ending in -ment

11.  Write at least twenty examples of clipping.

12.  Find the definition of: terminology, jargon, dialect, sociolect, technolect,lingo,cant.

13.  How many points of view are there(in narrative)? Define them.

14.  Make a table with the system of pronouns in English.

15.  Define the meaning of “sitting in the catbird seat”

16.  Define at least 5 figures of speech and give examples(anaphora, cataphora, etc.)

17.  Find 15 verbs with the particle   “out. For example: get out.

18.  What is a translation unit?

19.  What is the difference between “each other” and “one another”?

20.  Find 15 figures of speech and give examples.

21.  Build a table containing the verb, the profession and the actor or performer of the semantic field of robbing: to pickpocket,  to steal, etc.

22.  Find 20 nouns that can be created with the suffix  -ment.

23.  Terminology list from “ A Realease Deed” and of “Power of Attorney”

24.  In translation, define the concepts of Language A and Language B.

25.  Drawing with parts of an automobile.

26.  Definition of procastrination

27.  Synonyms and definitions of the word  to look.

28.  Differences between state, country, and nation

29.  Branches of the law (USA)

30.  Pronunciation of  regular verbs in the past(rules)

31.  Differences between other and another.

32.  Differences between each other  and one another

33.  The indefinite article the. When to use, when not to use (examples)

34.  Direct and indirect speech (examples)

35.  Types of ships.

36.  Examples of the use of the verbs make and do

37.  A table with the metric system and the nonmetric system

381.      Enumerate the registers of language and give a short description of each register.

39.      Explain what reported speech is and give examples.

40.      Explain the active voice and the passive voice. Give examples.

41      Explain or obtain pictures of different kinds of boats.

42     Define ISO.

43    Give examples of the formation of plurals.

44      Legal definition of child, minor, youth,and related words.

45    Picture of the IPA (INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET) chart.

46    Ten verbs with the prefix  mis-

47.  Ten verbs with the prefix down-

48.  Language A and language B in translation.

49.  Anglicismos de frecuencia. Examples and explanation.(Ayora´s book)

50.  Professiones  (masculine-femenine)

51.  Examples in which nouns are derived from verbs.

52.  Drawings: car parts, baseball, map of states of the United States.

53.  American and British english: differences and similarities.

54.  Types of boats.

55.  Explain the concept of reported speech.

56.  Ten verbs with the prefix mis-.

57.  Exercises with passive sentences (See handout in class).