Lexicography (Лексикография)

e.g. Andrew Lloyd Webber had his own methods of blocking, when he asked an opinion of complete strangers about what actors should do.Zoom(n) |zuːm|— special program, which allows people to have distant conferences via internet and communicate in official atmosphere even beyond frames of one physical office. e.g. Because of lockdown my boss decided to held the conference in Zoom.Read – through (ph.v.) |riːdθruː|—is a stage offilm,television,radio, or theatre productionwhen an organized reading around a table of thescreenplayorscriptby theactorswith speaking parts is conducted.e.g. Young author was excited because today was the first read through of his new script. The Golden Snot (n) |ˈɡəʊld(ə)n snɒt|—a hugely popular Sunday afternoon game show in its time and commonly associated with Bob Monkhouse. The main idea is in a fact that there is a crossbow attached to a television camera and then guided by a member of the public, before shooting a bolt at an exploding target embedded in an apple positioned on a topical backdrop (usually an enlargement of Bob’s own cartoons).e.g. My grandmother’s favorite show was “The Golden Snot” Opening night (n) |ˈəʊp(ə)nɪŋnaɪt|—the first night of a theatrical play or other entertainment. It is exciting for both audience and cast because nobody knows how the audience will react and the audience doesn`t know what to expect either. e.g. The opening night of “Romeo and Juliet” was a success!The Big Brother (n) |bɪɡ ˈbrʌðə|— a fictional character and symbol in George Orwell's dystopian”1984”. He is a dictator and always watching for every citizen of his country, so even the aphorism appeared “The Big Brother is watching you”. People usually use this aphorism to make a joke that it`s really hard to keep private life closed from eyes of the strangers. e.g. The Big Brother was scary, his eyes seemed to follow you everywhere. Pandemic(n) |pænˈdemɪk|— an outbreak of a pandemic disease. When a disease is prevalent over the country or even the whole world. e.g. The pandemic of coronavirus shocked the whole world, thousands of people died.Task 3 CorpusTopic: “Use of suffix in sentences”Task: Go to https://www.english-corpora.org/bnc/. Try to guess top 10 most popular suffixes in English, by typing words in corpus and checking their possible forms.For example by typing sleep you can get the suffixes of the word ‘sleep’, including its morphological inflections, e.g. ‘sleeping’, ‘sleepy’, ‘sleeps’, ‘sleepless’, etc.Type in the words walk, cook, drink, feel, miss, write, think, standCompare the number of possible suffixes and decide which 10 are the most popular.Answer (-ate, -y, -en, - ize, -ist, - ing, - al, - able, - ish, -ful)