- •Interpreting
- •Introduction
- •The aim is clear: we do not teach languages, we teach “interpreting” Skills
- •Intuition, concentration vs dispersed attention, good memory, dominant hemisphere/ear preference.
- •Section 1. Передача имен собственных и географических названий.
- •Section 2. Article
- •Section 3. Memory Exercise Ex.1. Tongue Tanglers (для отработки дикции).
- •Section 4. Listening/Composition
- •Section 5. Response Rate/Sight Translation
- •Section 6. Interpreting Skills Training Ex.1.Restore the order of the paragraphs The real Romney-Obama dog fight
- •Answer: 1e ; 2a ; 3b; 4d ; 5f ; 6c; Ex.2.Selective Listening.
- •Section 7. Sample Translation
- •Section 8. 2-Way Interpreting
- •Global public square. Henry kissinger (former u.S. Secretary of state)
- •Interview for cnn's 'Fareed Zakaria gps' (cnn - Sunday, June 8, 2008)
- •1. What do you think is the most important skill that a president is going to need? What could throw them off course? What advice would you give them, no matter who were elected?
- •2. Do you think that fundamentally the United States and Russia could have a significantly greater strategic cooperation than they do now?
- •5. So, you are not in favor of kicking Russia out of the g8? And if you were to extend the g8, would you include China?
- •6. But in a broader sense, what you are talking about is drawing these emerging powers into the global framework. Would it be better to try to create new lines?
- •Section 9. Written Translation
- •Section 10. Individual Training Pick up 3-4 articles on any urgent topic that proves interesting to you.
- •Section 1. Перевод неологизмов
- •Section 2. Article
- •International relations
- •Section 3. Memory Exercise Ex.1.Tongue Twisters (для отработки дикции).
- •Section 4. Listening/Composition
- •Section 5. Response Rate/Sight Translation
- •Section 6. Interpreting Skills Training Historic handshakes
- •2. John f. Kennedy- Nikita Khrushchev 1961
- •3. Richard Nixon- Mao Tse-tung, 1972
- •4. Menachem Begin - Anwar Sadat, 1977
- •5. Ronald Reagan -Mikhail Gorbachev 1985
- •6. F.W. De Klerk -Nelson Mandela, 1990
- •7. Yitzhak Rabin – Yasser Arafat – Bill Clinton, 1993
- •8. Clinton and Castro, 2000
- •9. Queen Elizabeth II and Martin McGuinness 2012
- •Section 7. Sample Translation
- •Section 8. 2-Way Interpreting
- •Section9. Written Translation
- •Section 10. Individual Training. Your portfolio. Краткий реферативный перевод первой статьи
- •Section 1. Перевод заимствований.
- •Section 2. Article Ex.1 Read and express each paragraph in three sentences (present your speech by memory without using text or notes) Performance art
- •Inspiring or Degrading?
- •Memorable performance art actions and artworks
- •Section 3. Memory Exercise
- •5. We live in a very sick society in which rudeness, sadism and sex have all become commodities. We have become a society of barbarians who love to be entertained by vulgarians. Steve Allen
- •Section 4. Listening/Composition
- •Section 5. Response Rate/Sight Translation
- •Section 6. Interpreting Skills Training
- •Section 7. Sample Translation
- •Section 8. 2-Way Interpreting
- •Kurt Vonnegut Interview
- •Ex 2. Make up an imaginary interview in the target language. (use questions stated below if necessary)
- •Section 9. Written Translation
- •Section 10. Individual Training Краткий реферативный перевод второй статьи
- •Section 2. Article
- •Section 3. Memory Exercise
- •Section 4. Listening/Composition
- •Section 5. Response Rate/Sight Translation
- •Section 6. Interpreting Skills Training
- •1. Athletic Performance Is a Mental Game
- •2. Robbery Foiled By Gun-Toting us Pensioner
- •Section 7. Sample Translation
- •Section 8. 2-Way Interpreting
- •Section 9. Written Translation
- •Section 10. Individual Training Краткий реферативный перевод третьей статьи
- •Section 2. Article
- •Is science a boon to human life?
- •Section 3. Memory Exercise
- •Section 4. Listening/Composition
- •Section 5. Response Rate/Sight Translation
- •Section 6. Interpreting Skills Training
- •Section 7. Sample Translation
- •Section 8. 2-Way Interpreting
- •Section 9. Written Translation
- •Section 10. Individual Training Составьте обзорное ессе по выбранной тематике с выражением собственного мнения по данному вопросу на языке оригинала
- •Section 1. Перевод реалий
- •Section 2. Article
- •Section 3. Memory Exercise
- •Section 4. Listening/Composition
- •Section 5. Sight Translation
- •Ex 3. Translate a sentence and ask your partner to restore the original phrase. Check up the correctness of translation.
- •Section 7. Sample Translation
- •Section 8. 2-Way Interpreting Hawking highlights
- •4. If you were a young physicist just starting out today, what would you study?
- •5. What do you think most about during the day?
- •Section 9. Written Translation
- •Section 10. Individual Training Оформите задание 1
- •Book 1 Portfolio
- •How to improve your memory
- •1. Astana: The world's weirdest capital city
- •2. Mexican police arrest officer suspected in airport shooting
- •3. Texas man finds his car 42 years after it was stolen
- •4. Why we should look to the Arctic
- •350 Injured on bloodiest day of Yemen uprising
- •Afghan government minister accused of hampering fight against insurgents
- •Text 6 Бойтесь Вашингтона с его благожелательностью
- •Text 10 а может, замолвим несколько добрых слов о России?
- •Interview 1
- •Interview 2
- •Interview 3
- •Interview 4
- •Interview 5
- •Interview 6 Полный текст эксклюзивного интервью Сергея Лаврова
- •Appendix 1
- •Ex1. Phonetic shadowing with/without text support
- •7. First ‘honest African leader’ prize given
- •8. South Korea loses national treasure in fire
- •10. British Museum to get bigger
- •11. Models under 16 banned in London
- •12. Calls to Punish Bad Language in Football
- •13. Olympic Security ceo Admits "Shambles"
- •14. Un calls for death penalty abolition
- •15. Divorce is bad for the environment
- •16.Uk plans huge wind farm programme
- •17. Afternoon naps increase risk of stroke
- •18. Museum of Laziness opens in Colombia
- •19. 10,000 Germ Species In/On Our Body
- •20. Learn In Your Sleep, Researchers Say
- •Work in pairs or groups
- •2. Putin is ‘Time’ magazine’s person of 2007
- •2. Person of the year survey
- •12. Calls to Punish Bad Language in Football
- •4. Four-letter language survey
- •14. Un calls for death penalty abolition
- •3. Death penalty survey
- •Appendix 2
- •9. Диремы с формальным подлежащим
- •Appendix 3
- •Appendix 4 keys to Section 1
- •Keys to Section 9 “Written translation”
- •Keys to Section 4 “Memory Exercise"
- •Appendix 5
- •Структурные трансформации
Section 2. Article
Jot down the key information and retell
Should scientists assume their social responsibilities?
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Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. (Alan Valentine) |
1.Scientists are like the pioneers of human society, exploring the unknowing, unraveling the mysteries, and making breakthroughs. A 'scientist' is a person who engages in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge by using scientific method. Some inventions are not just ANY findings, but ground-breaking discoveries that change our way of live. A prominent example is the atomic bomb. First 'discovered' in 1938 by German scientists, it took only 7 years before unleashing its unprecedented super-destructive power to world, when US planes dropped two bombs on the cities of Hiroshima & Nagasaki in August 1945. Some believe that scientists ought to shoulder the negative impacts of their discoveries. In my viewpoint it is unfair and ridiculous to ask scientists answer for the negative results of their discoveries.
2.First, it is unfair to blame scientists for the undesirable results of their findings if they themselves do not put the findings in large scale application. Just like a piece of brick can be used to build house or to murder someone, the effect of scientific discovery is not up to its finders but users, like politicians, businessmen, and investors in most cases. For instance, we should not blame the scientists in the Manhattan Project for the disastrous results of atomic explosion but the politicians in the White House who decided to use it in war. If all the responsibilities went to the scientists, not the actual utilizers, it would give those abusers excuse to continue their misbehaviors, while innocent scientists become their scapegoat.
3.Besides, were the scientists asked to be accountable for all the possible negative outcomes of their discoveries, it will undoubtedly hind the progress of science and even our society. The process of scientific research can be compared to exploration into a dark and gloomy cavern. The experiments and researches are just like leaders of the team with torches in hand, lighting up the darkness. And who knows what in the dark? It may be treasures, yet sometimes snakes or even monsters. Likewise, scientific discovery is sometimes controversial and unfavorable. If explorers are required to be responsible for every step they move on, undoubtedly, they would become overcautious and even scared to make progress.
4. Admittedly, some scientific findings have already shown unfavorable impacts when discovered by scientists. For example, soon after it was discovered, scientists have recognized the formidable power of nuclear fission. In such cases, however, scientists can remind people its negative consequences. Many responsible scientists in the Manhattan Project, including Robert Oppenheimer, the Father of Atomic Bomb, wrote report to warn politicians to use the atomic bomb cautiously in war. Thus, that scientist should not be blame for the harmful effects of their discoveries does not follow that they are entirely irrelevant to the application of such discovers. Conscious scientists are always there to assume their social responsibilities. While we should put reasonable requirements and expectations on scientists, scientists themselves do have the obligations to remind people about negative consequences of their discoveries.