Exercises

1. Translate the following words into Russian:

Business, reach, astronomic, volume, variegated, wealthiest, respectable, authoritative, part, various, oligarch, mini-oligarch, half-oligarch, ammunition, price, gun, construction, arrangement, blend, steel, handcraft, hatching, incrustation, manufacturer, result, equipped, fly helicopter, national, park, shoot, luxurious, castle, jaeger, serve, doughboy, visible, attribute, success, perceive, advent, apocalypse, foreign, reason, totally, unadmirable, freedom, wilderness, ability, hunt, encounter, exotic, falconry, expect, complete, commitment, developed, country, effeminate.

2. Give Russian equivalents of the following word combinations:

Lots of money, hunting business, astronomic volumes, hunters’ composition, the most respectable and authoritative part of hunters society, various oligarchs, mini-oligarchs and half-oligarchs, hunting enthusiasts, submachine gun, hard question, construction and arrangement, special blends of steel, handcraft, hatching, incrustation, special ammo, dominant name, a piece of art, fly helicopters around national parks and shoot animals, international Red List; luxurious joy therapists, jaegers serving them as a doughboy, a piece of a pie, the hunter’s trophy, all visible attributes of success, artwork knife, normal hunter, as a third advent of apocalypse, foreign hunters, totally unadmirable about freedom and wilderness of Kazakhstani nature, ability to hunt the animals, like exotics such as falconry, expect complete commitment, hunter’s laws, from developed countries.

3.Put special questions to the following sentences:

1.The most respectable and authoritative part of hunters society is various oligarchs, mini-oligarchs and half-oligarchs.2. The hunters have ammunition, which is worth that much, that common hunting enthusiasts couldn’t ever afford themselves a rifle. 3. They are totally unadmirable about freedom and wilderness of Kazakhstani nature. 4.They also like exotics such as falconry.5. Foreign hunters from developed countries are effeminate.

4. Complete the following sentences:

1.Such hunters have ammunition, which is worth that much, that common …couldn’t ever afford themselves a rifle. 2.The very rifles are going by prices for …of US dollars. 3.Construction and arrangement, special blends of steel, handcraft, …dominant name.4. They are totally unadmirable about freedom and wilderness of Kazakhstani nature, …which can’t be encountered in Europe. They also like exotics such as falconry. 5.Foreign people are paying a lot of money, but….6. If oligarchs are pretty stupid by hunter’s laws, then …from developed countries are effeminate.

5. Retell the text

Text 4: Hunting extreme of Kazakhstan (continuation)

I n neighboring Kyrgyzstan on Southern shores of Issyk-Kol lake there is an entertainment for reach clients to hunt down on grunting-ox (yak) with bows. Kazakhstani oligarchs are enthusiastically torturing poor beast until they would finish it with tenth arrow or telling Kyrgyz jaegers to finish it to free yak from tortures. Foreign tourists are not involving in such an entertainment since may years spent alongside with Greenpeace have taught them not only to be afraid of tree huggers’ revenge but changed their mind.

There are also poachers, but in Kazakhstan this feature has more of social reasons than purely criminal or psychological. If hunting is more of a meantime spending for thousands of townsfolk, then in Kazakhstan for significant category of people is a source of food products for families and additional sales income from animal furs and antlers. However, even complete poacher, if hunting is a source of income for him, wouldn’t harm nature as much as common oligarch who is shooting every living things only for fun and satisfying his hunting instinct; at least given the story with big men from Kazakhmys Corporation. Not only an air field and dozens of support structures were built for them in a nature reserve, but also dug out a ditch around Kopkol pluvial type lake. The one who gave this order wasn’t probably realized that shooting migrant birds from trench would be more comfortable, but the lake itself will certainly die from such technical advances.