Self Study Room closed on Monday 28th.

On Tuesday 29th, it will be open from 9.20 to 12.00 to make up for inconveniences. Thanks.

Consulting Sessions / Self Study Room November-December 2014

November

Monday 18th, 18.00 to 20.00

Tuesday 19th, 9.00 to 14.00

Thursday 21^th, 9.00 to 12.00

December

Monday 2^nd, 9.00 to 13.00

Friday 6^th, 9.00 to 12.00
Monday 9th, 18.00 - 20.00

Tuesday 10^th, 9.00 to 14.00   CANCELLED     

2014 Entrance course. Registration for fourth year students

Please go to the following link and complete the info required. Thanks.

More Text Transformation Exercises

See the instructions in a previous entry.

The abuse of psychiatry
The abuse of psychiatry - key
The face you know best
The face you know best - key
Youth hostels
Youth hostels - key

Self-Study closes in the afternoon. September 23rd.

Sorry for the inconveniences.

Self-Study closed on September 2nd.

Sorry for the inconveniences. You may stop by on Tuesday during the usual hours.

Lexicalization

Lexicalization is the process through which words express different concepts. This process works in a different way in different languages. That is why, many ideas may be present in only one word in a language but not in another. Think about the word "stride" in English: This word contains not only a notion of  walking, but also a notion of the manner in which someones walks (with long steps or strides). If you want to express the same in Spanish,  you will have to resort to some kind of adverbial complement to express manner, because it is absent in the word "caminar" itself and we have no other synonym that includes this  semantic feature.
The following exercise will help you become aware of this situation. English tends to be a synthetic language which lexicalizes many ideas or notions in a single word. Spanish tends to be "wordier" so being concise in English is sometimes hard to accomplish.
There are two sections:

Lexicalization(verbs), exercise
Lexicalization(verbs), key