- •Учебно-методическое пособие «Практический курс перевода английского языка» ( для студентов 3 курса)
- •Введение
- •1. Read the text, translate it and retell, using the words in bold. Why your free time is boring?
- •3. Translate adjectives to describe free time and leisure pursuits
- •5. Fill the gaps with a suitable adjective
- •6. Translate informal words describing the way people spend their leisure
- •7. Translate from Russian into English
- •8. Learn expressions and collocations connected with involvement in activities
- •9. Translate from Russian into English
- •11. Translate the text from Russian into English
- •Revision
- •2. Films and performances
- •2. Fill in with the words in brackets.
- •3. Fill in the correct word from the list.
- •5. Now use adjectives from the table above instead of the underlined words in these sentences. Make any other changes that are necessary to produce a correct sentence.
- •6. Read and translate the sentences
- •7. Answer these questions.
- •8. Translate from English into Russian
- •9. Translate from Russian into English
- •11. Read the texts, translate and retell Golshifteh Farahani is the biggest female film star to come out of Iran but she isn’t in any rush to return home.
- •12. Translate the text from Russian into English История о Питере Пэне станет следующим фильмом режиссера Гэри Росса
- •В Выборге завершился 20-й кинофестиваль “Окно в Европу”
- •3. Music
- •1. Look at these music reviews, translate and note the collocations in bold.
- •2. Change the underlined words using collocations above so that each sentence has the opposite meaning.
- •3. Correct the eight collocation errors in this paragraph. The first one is done for you.
- •Musician helps Alzheimer's patients
- •Queens of the Stone Age приступили к записи нового альбома
- •4. Books
- •1. Read and translate collocations in bold
- •2. Use collocations above instead of the underlined words in this conversation. The conversation has no errors, but the changes will improve it.
- •3. Read and translate the dialogue paying attention to the collocations in bold
- •4. Read and translate types of books
- •5. Which names for types of books or other reading material would best fit these statements?
- •6. Here are some things famous people have said about books. What do you think they mean?
- •7. Translate from English into Russian
- •8. Translate from Russian into English
- •10. Read the text, do a sight translation Some ways to cultivate a lifetime reading habit
- •11.Translate the text from Russian into English Что может быть лучше книг?
- •Module 2. Festivals and celebrations
- •Holiday
- •1. Read, translate and retell any text you like.
- •1. Christmas Markets – all over Europe
- •2. Floriade World Horticultural Expo, Venlo Region, Holland (April to October)
- •3. Running of the Bulls, Pamplona, Spain (July)
- •4. Bastille Day, Paris, France (July 14)
- •5. Sziget Festival, Budapest, Hungary (August)
- •6. Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Festival (December 30-January 1)
- •3. Look at these short extracts about Chinese cultural festivals and translate them.
- •4. Fill in the gaps
- •5. Read and translate words and phrases connected with festivals
- •1. Which of these important days are celebrated in your country? Make sure you can describe what people do on these days in English. Use a dictionary or encyclopedia if necessary.
- •2. Match the adjectives with the nouns. Some adjectives can be used with more than one noun. What event can each set of words describe?
- •3. Read about the festivals, note the collocations in bold and translate the texts
- •6. Translate from Russian into English
- •8. Read, translate and retell the texts.
- •1.Destination Weddings - Are They For You?
- •2.Honeymoon Trends
- •9. Translate texts from Russian into English
- •1.Самый крупный фестиваль Германии примет участие в Сейшельском карнавале
- •2.Десять самых интересных ночных фестивалей
- •Revision
- •Module 3. Sports and games
- •2. Read and translate the sports news given bellow. Look through the newspapers, find sporting news to be discussed in class.
- •3. Translate collocations
- •5. Learners often make mistakes with some common collocations connected with sport. Make a point of learning these commonly used collocations.
- •6. Read the texts, translate, note the collocations
- •8. Complete the collocations in this report of a rugby match.
- •9. Fill in the missing words from the list. Use the words only once.
- •10.Translate sentences from English into Russian
- •12. Translate the texts from Russian into English
- •1.Вагнер Лав забил победный гол в чемпионате Бразилии
- •2.Капитан "Зенита" объяснил ничью с "Анжи" ошибкой арбитра
- •Phrasal verbs and set expressions about sport
- •1. Translate e-mails about a sports camp
- •2. Choose the correct collocation.
- •4. Read and translate the texts, note the collocations Sports news
- •Match reports
- •5. Complete each sentence using collocations given above.
- •6. Translate from Russian into English
- •8.Idioms.Translate the words describing card games and board games
- •9. Translate the texts about ball games and learn collocations
- •10. Translate collocations dealing with boxing
- •11. Rewrite the underlined part of each sentence using an idiom above
- •12. Complete each idiom.
- •Revision
- •Module 4. Crime and punishment
- •1. Translate the text about capital punishment and retell using the words in bold.
- •2. Study the vocabulary at the end of the book and underline the correct item.
- •3. Fill in the missing word(s).
- •4. Match the definitions below:
- •5. Fill in the gaps with the prepositions from the box. Some of these can be used more than once.
- •6. Translate from Russian into English
- •8.Translate the text from English into Russian and retell Woman charged over death of child in nursery playground
- •1. Carl and Ayse are talking about a crime at work. Read the conversation and note the idioms. All the idioms they use are informal.
- •2. Read these comments about people's attitudes to banks. Complete each idiom.
- •3. Match each statement (1-9) with a suitable response (a-I).
- •5. Translate from Russian into English
- •7. Role-play. Let’s Do Justice!
- •8. Read the text, translate and retell Appeal denied for killer who sent taunting letter
- •10.Speaking. Read and translate the texts, choose any you like and learn the case. Manslaughter
- •Homicide
- •Shop-lifting
- •2. Discuss each case applying the questions below:
- •4. Additional Vocabulary:
- •1.Смертная казнь: за и против?
- •2.На министра спорта Камчатки завели второе дел
- •3.Ставропольский суд выписал штраф в 12 миллионов за неправильную взятку
- •Module 5. Earth: sos
- •Environmental Damage through History
- •2.Read through the text carefully. Then complete the following to make suitable sentences according to the meaning of the text.
- •4. Choose the correct word from the list below to complete the sentences:
- •5. Read the table, then in pairs discuss the problems, their effects and their solutions as in the example:
- •6.Match the words in Column a to their synonyms in Column b.
- •7. Translate from Russian into English
- •1. Translate into Russian.
- •2.Translate into English using the active vocabulary:
- •3.Choose the contextual synonyms and use them in the sentences instead of the underlined words.
- •6. Read, translate and retell
- •1.Antarctica: a Greenhouse Gas Hotspot?
- •2.Global warming will cause more powerful thunderstorms
- •8. Texts for translation from Russian into English
- •Module 6. Disasters and Accidents
- •Earthquake in la
- •2. Learn the words at the end of the book and translate sentences from Russian into English.
- •4. Choose the correct word from the list below to complete the sentences:
- •5. Translate the verbs connected with disasters
- •6. Translate the words for people involved in disasters/tragedies
- •1. Look at the table below, choose any disaster to talk about Most deadly natural disasters, listed by type
- •3. Read the following news reports (a and b), explain the words in bold and think of a suitable headline for each. Read them again and answer the following questions:
- •4. Translate from Russian into English
- •6. Read the text, translate and retell
- •1.Humans vs. The environment - a thought experiment
- •2.Earthquakes and Tsunamis
- •8. Texts for translation from Russian into English
- •1.Землятресение в Самоа
- •2.Наводнение в Индии
- •Vocabulary
- •Arts and Crafts
- •Artistic Events
- •Inside the Theater
- •Additional Vocabulary
- •Module 2. Festivals and celebrations
- •Module 3. Sports
- •Vocabulary
- •Additional Vocabulary
- •Module 4. Crime
- •Vocabulary
- •Module 5. Earth: sos
- •Vocabulary
- •Module 6. Disasters and Accidents
- •Vocabulary
- •Human-caused disasters
- •Список использованной литературы
- •Интернет ресурсы
2.На министра спорта Камчатки завели второе дел
Cледственный комитет РФ возбудил второе уголовное дело в отношении министра спорта и туризма Камчатского края Виктора Кравченко. Об этом 20 августа сообщается на сайте СК. Кравченко подозревают в получении взятки в размере два миллиона рублей. По версии следствия, в декабре 2011 года чиновник узнал, что некая фирма нарушила условия госконтракта на поставку горнолыжного инвентаря. Министр потребовал от руководства фирмы взятку, в противном случае угрожая штрафами. Бизнесмены согласились на его условия.
Первое уголовное дело Кравченко было возбуждено в начале августа 2012 года. Министра подозревают в мошенничестве - по версии следствия, в июле-августе 2011 года он вместе с бизнесменом-подельником сфальсифицировал итоги аукциона на поставку инвентаря и одежды для юных хоккеистов. В итоге хоккеисты получили некачественные товары, а бюджету был нанесен ущерб на сумму 6,9 миллиона рублей. Кравченко задержали 9 августа в аэропорту Петропавловска-Камчатского, когда он пытался вылететь в Москву. Министр протестовал против ареста, ссылаясь на плохое самочувствие. Но суд все же заключил его под стражу, указав в том числе и на попытку вылета с полуострова.
3.Ставропольский суд выписал штраф в 12 миллионов за неправильную взятку
В Ставропольском крае к уплате штрафа на сумму 12 миллионов рублей приговорен некий Александр Каспарян. Он пытался дать 200 тысяч рублей сотруднику угрозыска, ошибочно считая, что тот имеет полномочия освобождать подозреваемых из-под стражи, сообщает Генпрокуратура РФ. В мае 2012 года в Кисловодске за торговлю наркотиками были задержаны жена и сын осужденного. Каспарян попытался подкупить оперуполномоченного, но ему помешали это сделать сотрудники полиции. Приговором Ставропольского краевого суда взяткодателю был назначен штраф в 60-кратном размере взятки. Кроме того, его на три года лишили права занимать должности на госслужбе и в органах местного самоуправления.
Module 5. Earth: sos
Translate and discuss the main factors which have had a negative effect on the environment during the last two hundred years.
Environmental Damage through History
The world has reached a crisis point. Our modern lifestyle is destroying the fragile environment. It's important to be aware of what is happening to the environment today. One of the major problems nowadays is the destruction of the rainfоrests. Many communities today burn down trees to clear land for growing crops. Some of the earliest human communities also burned large areas of woodland for this purpose. Human societies evolved from small groups of hunter-gatherers to larger societies based around agriculture and domestic animals. According to many anthropologists, this was the beginning of "civilization." But it was also the beginning of mankind's destructive influence on the environment. We probably discovered how to manipulate fire about a million years ago. Until that time, most of the earth's land surface was covered in thick forests. Large forest fires, probably started deliberately by humans, created a new type of landscape in many parts of the world - the savannah or scrubland. The world's population then was only five or ten million. But these people literally changed the face of the earth. Several centuries later, the inhabitants of Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean cut down all their trees in order to erect huge religious statues. The islanders apparently forgot that the trees were their major source of food, fuel and shelter. Within a few years, the rich and sophisticated society on Easter Island was reduced to destitution and starvation.
The threat of extinction affects many animals and plant species in the world today, and people become more and more unnecessary cruel to animals. We first demonstrated our ability to eradicate other species several centuries ago. The dodo was a large bird, rather like a turkey, that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The bird had no natural predators and never developed the ability to fly. Despite this, the dodo population thrived on the island for thousands of years. When the first humans arrived in Mauritius in the early 16th century, they found that the dodos were very tame. The birds walked right up to the human settlers and did not try to run away. The settlers killed the dodos, partly for food and partly for sport. By 1680, less than 200 years after the first human settlement on Mauritius, the last dodo was dead. Only the expression "as dead as a dodo" lives on in the English language.
Other animals who suffered at the hands of our ancestors include the elephant and the buffalo. Thousands of years ago, elephants walked freely over much of the earth. Elephant hunting by humans, mainly for the ivory trade, eliminated the elephant population from the Middle East and North Africa several centuries ago. The great explorer Marco Polo discovered a lucrative market for ivory in China because the Chinese had already killed all their own elephants. The European explorers who settled in the Americas spent several centuries trying to eradicate the native American Indian population. In the 19th century, they deliberately set out to kill all the buffalo in North America, because the Indians ate buffalo meat and used the hide of the buffalo for making clothes and shelters. In 1800, there were more than 60 million buffalo in the United States; by 1890 there were just 1,000 animals left. Today, the buffalo remains an endangered species.
Modern man has done a great damage to the soil by intensive farming methods. One problem is salinization from excessive irrigation. But salinization is not entirely a problem of modern, high-technology agriculture. Our ancestors probably discovered irrigation about 5,500 years ago. The ancient Mesopotamians, who lived about 4,500 years ago, were enthusiastic farmers. They built extensive irrigation channels in river valleys to try to increase their crop fields. Unfortunately, this led to waterlogging and salinization of the soil. The field of the staple crop, barley, fell dramatically and a prolonged famine occurred. The people who survived the famine had to change their staple crop from barley to wheat, which tolerated the salty soil better. The problem of soil erosion has occurred ever since man began to destroy forests. There is geological evidence that a rapid increase in the rate of soil erosion occurred about 4,000 years ago in the northern European countries, particularly Britain, France and Germany. There was also an increase in silt deposits in rivers.
The time of this change corresponds to the introduction of agriculture to Europe. The destruction of forests, together with ancient man's agricultural methods, almost certainly caused this environmental damage.
The problems of urban expansion, industrial pollution and waste disposal are largely the problems of an overpopulated world in the 21th century. But ever since humans first tried to live together in towns, there have been problems providing food, fuel, water and sanitation for urban communities. Until less than a century ago, disposal of sewage was so inefficient that diseases such as cholera were endemic in many towns. With very few exceptions, urban communities used rivers and lakes as lavatories and garbage dumps. The ancient Romans, who understood the connection between sewage and disease, built their famous aqueducts to take the waste out of the city center. But the aqueducts simply transported raw sewage to the countryside and dumped it there! The ancient Romans were pioneers of public health but they were very short-sighted about the health of the environment.
Environmentalists often claim that modern people are selfish, but modern people are probably no more selfish than most of their predecessors.
However, there are two important differences between ancient civilizations and the world today. First, there are so many more people in the world today. We no longer live in isolated communities many hundreds of miles from our neighbors. The world, is now a global village. World population is reaching critical levels. Second, during the past 200 years, humankind has invented powerful technology that multiplies each individual's destructive impact on the environment. One man with an ax can cut down one or two large trees in a day; with modern machinery the same man can cut down a whole forest. Population growth and modern technology mean that we cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of our ancestors. The environmental crisis we are facing today will not just destroy a tiny corner of the earth. If we do not take action soon, it may cause irreversible damage to the entire planet.