2. Translate the sentences. Study the usage of the topical words

The opinion poll was conducted among a sample of 15,000 adults randomly and scientifically selected from all 450 local government areas in Nigeria.

It puts Labor support at 53 per cent of the electorate, the highest figure recorded in the poll of polls. The results were taken from surveys by six polling organizations: Gallup, Harris, Mori, ICM, NOP and Audience Selection.

Pollsters are to change the way they measure public opinion after getting the result of the last general election badly wrong.

Opinion polls predict that the M-19 party either win the polling or emerge with sufficient votes to threaten the hold of the country’s principal parties.

Opinion polls are forecasting that a non-Communist coalition of parties, Demos, will win at least 40 per cent of the vote.

It also concluded that most of the voters who had chosen to remain silent would probably back the opposition. Because of this, it is essential to view the poll’s findings with some skepticism.

NOP’s unadjusted forecast was one of the most accurate of any by-election exit-poll, in which people leaving the polling booths are asked how they voted.

3. Translate the following sentences

1. His promise to make the Senate an elected body with effective power, the main demand of western Canadians, is vaguer.

2. Mongolia has promised free multi-party elections to the legislature the Great Hural and has become the first Asian nation to bow to the winds of change sweeping in from Eastern Europe.

3. In the Bulgarian elections, computer predictions give the Socialists – formerly the Communists – nearly half the vote and therefore about 100 seats of the 200 decided under the PR system. The figures obtained by the BBC show that of the 200 seats decided under the first-post-the-post system, the Socialists have won 76 seats.

4. Israel’s electoral system is one of proportional representation by list. Each party lists its candidates for the Knesset in order of seniority, and as the votes accumulate, another name on the list enters the Knesset.

5. In 1989 the Green Party received 2 million votes, 15 per cent of the vote, in the European elections. However, because of Britain’s first-past-the-post electoral system (whereby only the candidate who receives the most votes is elected) the Greens did not gain a single seat.

6. About 1.3 million people voted Labor in Scotland. There, it won 50 seats. In the English heartland, between the Wash and the Avon (excluding London), some 1.7 million people voted Labor. There, it won 3 seats.

7. The supporters of PR point to the unfairness of the present system where one Member of Parliament represents one diverse constituency where the majority of people may voted for a number of other candidates.

Unit 5 International Unions

Writing an article

1. Study the tips which journalists take into consideration in writing articles.