1.Draw pictures of prototypical examples and of objects on the borderline between the categories BOTTLE, GLASS, VASE and BOWL, and use themas stimuli for a naming task with your friends or family.(p24)
2.(p44)

3.Eskimos have many words for different types of snow, Aborigines fordifferent types of sand, and in Arabic one must choose from a wholerange of words which are subsumed under the Western category CAMEL(cf. Lyons 1981: 67). Can you explain these phenomena with the helpof the notion of ‘cultural model’?(p58)
4.Discuss the influence ofthe language user’s personal, geographical and social background on hischoice of basic level categories for plants, animals and technical appliances. Make use of the information about context, cognitive and cultural models in Section 1.3.(p76)

