- •Seminar 1
- •Practice: Task 11
- •Task 12
- •Seminar 2
- •Practice: Task 13
- •Practice: Task 56
- •Seminar 3
- •Practice: Task 48
- •Task 49
- •Seminar 4
- •Task 57
- •Task 58
- •Task 64
- •Task 65
- •Task 68
- •Task 69
- •Task 70
- •Task 71
- •Task 72
- •Etienne de Silhouette → silhouette
- •Louis Braille → Braille / braille
- •Samuel Pickwick →Pickwick
- •Joseph I. Guillotine → guillotine
- •John Duns Scotus → dunce
- •Levi Strauss → Levis
- •Task 73
- •Seminar 5
- •Practice: Task 130
- •Task 131
- •Task 132
- •Idiomatic Diet (how to lose weight without exercise)
- •Seminar 6
- •Practice: Task 50
- •Task 51
- •Task 52
- •Task 53
- •Task 54
- •Task 55
- •Seminar 7
- •Practice: Task 127
- •Task 128
- •Task 129
- •Seminar 8
- •Practice: Task 14
- •Task 15
- •Task 16
Levi Strauss → Levis
6. The word Levis stands for close-fitting, heavy blue denim pants that are reinforced at strain points with copper rivets. It comes from Levi Strauss of San Francisco, the pioneer overall manufacturer of the West, who began his business in the Gold Rush days. The company trademark Levis became a popular term for almost any durable work pants, especially blue jeans.
Task 73
Examples of metonymical transfer of geographical names are exceedingly numerous. Here are some of them. Discuss them with your teacher.
1. Downing Street (No 10 Downing Street - Downing Street (the British Prime
is the Prime Minister's residence) Minister and Cabinet)
2. Lombard Street (a street in the City of - Lombard Street (the financial world of
London known for financial and banking Great Britain)
activity)
3. White House (the official Washington, - White House (the President and his advisers)
D.C. home of the President of the United
States)
4. the Pentagon(the five-sided building - the Pentagon (the leaders of the US
near Washington that is the headquarters armed forces)
of the US Department of Defense and
the US armed forces)
5. a country club at Tuxedo Park, New York - tuxedo (a dinner-jacket)
6. Balaclava (a village in the Crimea where - balaclava(a closely-fitting woollen hat
a battle of the Crimean War was fought in 1854) that covers the head and neck,
with an opening for the face)
7. Nȋmes (a city in and the capital of Card, - denim (a kind of cloth; short for serge
in France) de Nimes)
8. the Cheviot Hills (on the border between - cheviot (a kind of wool cloth)
England and Scotland)
9. Madeira (the largest of a group of islands - Madeira, madeira(a white dessert
the Madeira Islands - in the Atlantic Ocean wine from the island of Madeira)
which belong to Portugal)
10. Bourbon County (Kentucky) - bourbon (a type of whisky distilled in the
US chiefly from corn)
11. Champagne (a region in France) - champagne (any of various types of
sparkling white wine)
12. Sardinia (a large Italian island off the - sardine(a young pilchard or a similar
country's west coast) fish, usually tinned in oil or tomato juice)
13. Labrador (a peninsula in Canada) - Labrador, labrador (a breed of dog with
a smooth black or golden coat)
14. Charleston (a seaport in South Carolina) - Charleston (a fast dance, popular in the
1920s, in which the knees are turned
inwards and the legs kicked sideways)
15. Limousin (a former province in central - limousine (a large luxurious car)
France)
16. Buncombe(a place in South Carolina, USA) - buncombe, bunkum (insincere talk;
nonsense)
17. Blarney stone (a stone in Blarney Castle - blarney (skilful flattery)
near Cork, Ireland, held to make those who
kiss it skilled in flattery)