Seminar #1

     1.  Ways of forming phraseological units.
     2.  Semantic classification of phraseological units.
     3.  Structural classification of phraseological units.
     4.  Syntactical classification of phraseological units.
     5.  Synonyms in phraseology.
     6.  Cast-iron idioms:
     —  at sixes at sevens;
     —  to mind one’s p’s and q’s;
     —  to sow one’s wild oats;
     —  a kettle of fish;
     —  sub rosa/under the rose;
     —  to stew in one’s own juice;
     —  to come to the end of one’s rope;
     —  before one can say Jack Robinson;
     —  to beat about the bush;
     —  to put a spoke in one’s wheel;
     —  to get/give one the sack;
     —  the fat is in the fire;
     —  with a grain of salt;
     —  let sleeping dogs lie;
     —  to nourish a viper/snake in one’s bottom;
     —  to wash one’s dirty linen in public;
     —  to know where the shoe pinches.

Seminar #2

     1.  Problems of word meaning
     2.  Change of meaning:
     2.1.  Extension of meaning.
     2.2.  Narrowing of meaning.
     2.3.  Elevation of meaning.
     2.4.  Degradation of meaning.