Exercises

1. Translate the following words into Russian :

Way, several, drastically, different, experience, important, option, choose, method, rifle, knife, appropriate, attire, terrain, general, camping, hiking, slightly, bow, load, bullet, elk, bear, primal, allow, opportunity, generally, produce, power, accuracy, carry, extra, arrow, arrowhead, bowstring, breakage, string, damage, rangefinder, decoy, conjunction, fowl-enticing, camouflaged, hide, reduce, skill, level, successful, increase, chance, especially, trophies, weapon, track, identify, scat, sign, tracker, guarantee, contact, sparse, lightweight, everything.

2. Give Russian equivalents of the following word combinations:

Millions of people, several drastically different ways, get the most out of your experience, to learn about the different hunting options, choose the method, hunting knife for cleaning, the appropriate attire for the terrain, any general camping or hiking gear, rifle hunting, to load a rifle, to bring down larger game, like elk and bear, the preferred hunting type, for those who wish to get more in touch with the primal nature of the sport, opportunities to bag several animals, the same type of power as rifles, extra arrows and arrowheads, extra bowstrings, large game, for hunting waterfowl, with fowl-enticing calls or scents, who are camouflaged within a hide or a blind, successful hunt, increase the chances of having a successful hunt, nstead of trophies.

3. Put special questions to the following sentences:

1. Larger rifles are used to bring down larger game, like elk and bear.2.Bow hunting is the preferred hunting type for those who wish to get more in touch with the primal nature of the sport. 3.Bow hunters generally carry their bow, a hunting knife, extra arrows and arrowheads, extra bowstrings in case of breakage or other string damage, and a rangefinder. 4.Decoys are typically used for hunting waterfowl, although large game decoys do exist.5.Decoys also increase the chances of having a successful hunt, which is especially important if you are hunting for meat instead of trophies.6. Tracking requires skill in the form of being able to identify animal tracks, scat, and other signs that your desired game has been in the area recently. 7.A skilled tracker can almost guarantee contact with the game that they are hunting. 8.Hunting gear for trackers tends to be sparse and lightweight, since they have to carry everything with them as they go.

4. Give the definitions:

Rifle hunting, bow hunting, decoys, tracking.

5. Retell the text

Text 3: Hunting extreme of Kazakhstan

There is lots of money rotating in hunting business, which are sometimes reaching astronomic volumes. At that the truth is that hunters’ composition is very variegated. The wealthiest, however not the most respectable and authoritative part of hunters society is various oligarchs, mini-oligarchs and half-oligarchs.

Such hunters have ammunition, which is worth that much, that common hunting enthusiasts couldn’t ever afford themselves a rifle. The very rifles are going by prices for tenth and hundreds of US dollars, they cost in thousand times more than Kalashnikov submachine gun.

Construction and arrangement, special blends of steel, handcraft, hatching, incrustation, special ammo, dominant name of manufacturer. As the result the rifle is becoming not as an item of killing of animals, but as a piece of art.

S o, the oligarchs are armed, equipped, are able to fly helicopters around national parks and shoot animals, which are added to international Red List; there are luxurious joy therapists are waiting for them in heated bathes in hunting castles, and jaegers are serving them as a doughboys – but they are still not respected. Because when everything is given to them like a piece of a pie, then there is no struggle for hunter’s trophy. At that all visible attributes of success are too not considered. Besides, an oligarch can open a can with his artwork knife: by seeing this normal hunter would perceive this as a third advent of apocalypse.

Also there are foreign hunters. By the first stance it is Germans for some reason. They are totally unadmirable about freedom and wilderness of Kazakhstani nature, ability to hunt the animals and birds which can’t be encountered in Europe. They also like exotics such as falconry. Foreign people are paying a lot of money, but they expect complete commitment. If oligarchs are pretty stupid by hunter’s laws, then foreign hunters from developed countries are effeminate.