Hello!

I have a homework to do and I simply cannot understand the concepts that should be applied to solve the exercices in an effective manner.
I thought that there could be someone here to help me...

This is part of my homework:


1. Identify what type of TUs (a) cohesive / non-cohesive; b) dividing / non-dividing; c) compositional / non-compositional) each of the following falls into.

make a decision
ambient noise
skyline
make ready
make sure
make money

You don’t mean it!
to put up a claim
to make a promise
to press for an answer
to make a move
to turn out
to be in /get to smooth water
to come to light
to hang up one’s fiddle
to come out at orderly hour


Task 2

Translate the following texts. Before you do this, break the text into translation units and subunits.

Use slashes “/” to separate small word groups with a separate semantic meaning that might be translated individually, and brackets “[]” to indicate larger units that an expertised translator might consider to translate as a whole.


Long a favorite practice of the Dadaists, who organized a variety of expeditions, and the surrealists, for whom the geographical form of automatism was an instructive pleasure, the dérive, or drift, was defined by the Situationists as the 'technique of locomotion without a goal', in which 'one or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.

(Sadie Plant, The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age)




I only need to get some hints on each task and I only need some of the examples cathegorized and an explanation for the specific cathegorization...
I do not want you to think that I am expecting other people to do my homework...I simply cannot understand the terms and the concepts and how to deal with them...
Thank you!