Unit 10 Professional translation techniques

Starting up

Y ou are going to listen to a short BBC report on the issue of organ donorship downloaded from the BBC site at http://wsdownload.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/pdf/2012/05/120503153618_120503_witn_facebook_organ_donors.pdf . More about this story:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17893456

Read and listen to the story and the vocabulary online: http://bbc.in/IYH77i Before you listen, discuss the following questions in pairs:

• What is your opinion about blood or internal organs' donorship?

• Have you ever been a donor?

• Would you like to be a donor? Why or why not?

Summary

Read the summary to the BBC report taken from the BBC site and translate it using the lexical and grammatical substitutions suggested in brackets. Then listen to the report and fill in the gaps. After you check the gaps with the whole class, present the sight translation of the report.

BBC Learning English

Words in the News “Facebook organ donors” (word order), 3 May 2012

Facebook users in the United States and Britain will now be able to show on their page whether they wish to donate (parts of speech) their organs. The hope is that it will encourage more people to register as organ donors. BBC Correspondent Leana Hosea reports (word order).

Nearly _________ people in ___ ______ die each year ________ waiting for an organ transplant and around ________ people in ________ are on the waiting list for an _______. With the huge numbers of Facebook members in _______countries, the social networking site hopes its _________ into social engineering will make a ____ _________. An American _________ transplant director at a major hospital, Dr Andrew Cameron, called it a _________ ______ and speculated it may well ____________ the problem of people dying while waiting for a transplant.

____ ________ ____registering as donors, people are __________ their personal stories of why they are donating. Debbie Greenwood from _____________, 336 friends: "My 5-year-old ____________ had a combined _______ and __________ transplant 18 months ago, his life is now 100% better and we are __________ grateful to the donor family, whom we have met.".

Facebook says the _____________ is about making it easier on families, as they are more likely to know their loved one's donor status ___ __________. It's also about encouraging people who may have thought about it, but not ____ __________ to it or who might ___ ____________ to donate if they find out that their friends are doing it. The British site already has nearly ________________ Facebook likes and climbing.

Vocabulary 1

Read definitions below and find the according words and word combinations in the article above:

1. surgery to transfer part of someone's body to

someone else's

(noun collocation) ________ ____________

2. a roll of people wanting to obtain something (noun collocation) ________ ______________

3. movement into an unfamiliar area

(noun) _____________

4. measures to make changes to society (noun collocation) __________ _______________

5. thought, reasoned, theorised

(verb, Past form) ________________

6. to remove, to get rid of something, to prevent it from happening (verb) __________________

7. enrolling, formally indicating interest

(verb, Gerud form) _______________

8. joint, happening together at the same time

(Adj.) __________________

9. endlessly, absolutely, hugely thankful

(adverb+ adjective) ________________

10. ahead of time (adverb) ____________________

Reading