A blonde decides one day that she is sick and tired of all these blondy jokes and how all blondes are perceived as stupid, so she decides to show her husband that blondes really are smart. While her husband is off at work, she decides that she is going to paint a couple of rooms in the house. The next day, right after her husband leaves for work, she gets down to the task at hand. Her husband arrives home and smells the distinctive smell of paint. He walks into the living room and finds his wife lying on the floor in a pool of sweat. He notices that she is wearing a ski jacket and a fur-coat at the same time. He goes over and asks her if she is OK. She replies yes. He asks what she is doing. She replies that she wanted to prove to him that not all blonde women are dumb, and she wanted to do it by painting the house. He then asks her why she has a ski jacket over her furcoat. She replies that she was reading the directions on the paint can and they said... “FOR BEST RESULTS, PUT ON TWO COATS”. (Joke) 1. Read and translate the text.
2. What linguistic phenomenon is this joke based upon? Give all necessary explanations.
3. Identify the type of word formation in the following pairs: paint, n - paint, v; smell, n - smell, v.
4. What is the result of semantic change of the verb arrive if earlier it meant “to come to shore”? What is the result of semantic change of the noun room if we know that originally it denoted “space”?
What is the difference between the synonyms home and house?
5. How many antonyms of the word smart are used in the text? What is an antonym for the verb ask? Identify their types:
a) contrary; b) contradictory; c) conversive; d) vectorial.
6. Choose the correct answer. To be sick and tired of something/somebody is:
a) a free word-combination;
b) a phraseological unit;
c) a set non-phraseological unit.

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