- •Contents
- •Introduction…………………………………………………………..4
- •Introduction
- •Focus on Cultural Awareness
- •Альбрехт Дюрер (1471–1528 гг.) немецкий живописец и график «Апокалипсис». Серия гравюр (1498)
- •Vocabulary practice
- •I. Find in the text equivalents for the following.
- •III. Translate the given adjectives, suggest their synonyms and word combinations, make up sentences of your own:
- •IV. Memorize the following collocations.
- •V. Make a list of key words and word combinations from the text with their translation equivalents.
- •Translation/interpreting practice
- •I. Snow-ball interpreting.
- •II. Résumé making (text compression).
- •Леонардо да Винчи, итальянский живописец, скульптор, архитектор, ученый, инженер
- •Vocabulary practice
- •I. Find in the text equivalents for the following.
- •II. Match the following words and word combinations to their correct meaning:
- •III. Translate the given adjectives, suggest their synonyms and word combinations, make up sentences of your own:
- •IV. Memorize the following collocations:
- •V. Make a list of key words and word combinations from the text with their translation equivalents.
- •Translation/interpreting practice
- •I. Snow-ball interpreting.
- •V. Check yourself (your translation) against the pattern translation version.
- •VI. Listen to the recorded text and practise consecutive interpreting. Leonardo da Vinci
- •Рембрандт Харменс ван Рейн
- •Голландский живописец
- •Vocabulary practice
- •I. Find in the text equivalents for the following.
- •II. Match the following words and word combinations to their correct meaning:
- •III. Translate the given adjectives, suggest their synonyms and word combinations, make up sentences of your own:
- •IV. Memorize the following collocations.
- •V. Make a list of key words and word combinations from the text with their translation equivalents.
- •Translation/interpreting practice
- •I. Snow-ball interpreting.
- •Винсент Ван Гог (1853–1890 гг.) голландский живописец-постимпрессионист Автопортреты
- •Vocabulary practice
- •V. Make a list of key words and word combinations form the text with their translation equivalents.
- •Translation/interpreting practice
- •I. Snow-ball interpreting.
- •Vocabulary practice
- •I. Find in the text equivalents for the following.
- •II. Match the following words and word combinations to their correct meaning:
- •III. Translate the given adjectives, suggest their synonyms and word combinations, make up sentences of your own:
- •IV. Memorize the following collocations.
- •V. Make a list of key words and word combinations from the text with their translation equivalents.
- •Translation/interpreting practice
- •I. Snow-ball interpreting.
- •II. Résumé making (text compression).
- •Древнегреческая поэтесса
- •Vocabulary practice
- •I. Find equivalents in the text for the following.
- •II. Match the following words and word combinations to their correct meaning:
- •Translation/interpreting practice
- •1. Snow-ball interpreting.
- •II. Résumé making (text compression).
- •Джакомо Джованни Казанова
- •Итальянский писатель, авантюрист, соблазнитель
- •Vocabulary practice
- •I. Find equivalents in the text for the following:
- •II. Match the following words and word combinations to their correct meaning:
- •III. Translate the given adjectives, suggest their synonyms and make up word combinations, sentences of your own:
- •IV. Memorize the following collocations.
- •V. Make a list of key words and word combinations form the text with their translation equivalents.
- •Translation/interpreting practice
- •1. Snow-ball interpreting.
- •II. Résumé making (text compression).
- •Публий Вергилий Марон
- •Древнеримский поэт
- •Vocabulary practice
- •I. Find equivalents in the text for the following.
- •II. Match the following words and word combinations to their correct meaning:
- •III. Translate the given adjectives, suggest their synonyms and make up word combinations, sentences of your own:
- •IV. Memorize the following collocations:
- •V. Make a list of key words and word combinations from the text with their translation equivalents.
- •Translation/interpreting practice
- •1. Snow-ball interpreting.
- •II. Résumé making (text compression).
- •Демокрит
- •Древнегреческий философ-материалист
- •Vocabulary practice
- •V. Make a list of key words and word combinations from the text with their translation equivalents.
- •Translation/interpreting practice
- •1. Snow-ball interpreting.
- •II. Résumé making (text compression).
- •III. Text development.
- •Фалес Милетский
- •Древнегреческий философ
- •Vocabulary practice
- •V. Make a list of key words and word combinations form the text with their translation equivalents.
- •Translation/interpreting practice
- •1. Snow-ball interpreting.
- •II. Résumé making (text compression).
- •Фридрих Ницше
- •Немецкий философ
- •Vocabulary practice
- •I. Find equivalents in the text for the following.
- •II. Match the following words and word combinations to their correct meaning:
- •III. Translate the given adjectives, suggest their synonyms and make up word combinations, sentences of your own:
- •IV. Memorize the following collocations.
- •V. Make a list of key words and word combinations from the text with their translation equivalents.
- •Translation/interpreting practice
- •1. Snow-ball interpreting.
- •II. Résumé making (text compression).
- •Древнегреческий математик
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •I. Find in the text equivalents for the following.
- •II. Match the following words and word combinations to their correct meaning:
- •III. Translate the given adjectives, suggest their synonyms and word combinations, make up sentences of your own:
- •IV. Memorize the following collocations.
- •V. Make a list of key words and word combinations from the text with their translation equivalents.
- •Translation/Interpreting Practice
- •I. Snow-ball interpreting.
- •II. Résumé making (text compression).
- •Страбон
- •Греческий географ и историк
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •I. Find equivalents in the text for the following.
- •II. Match the following words and word combinations to their correct meaning:
- •III. Translate the given adjectives, suggest their synonyms and make up word combinations, sentences of your own:
- •IV. Memorize the following collocations.
- •V. Make a list of key words and word combinations form the text with their translation equivalents.
- •Translation/Interpreting Practice
- •1. Snow-ball interpreting.
- •II. Résumé making (text compression).
- •Братья Монгольфье французские изобретатели воздушного шара
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •Translation/Interpreting Practice
- •1. Snow-ball interpreting.
- •II. Résumé making (text compression).
- •Text 1. Mykhaylo Hrushevsky The First President of the Past and Would-be Republic
- •Text 2. Solomia Krushelnytska
- •Text 3. Hryhoriy Skovoroda – a Ukrainian Confucius
- •Text 4. Lesya Ukrainka a Rebellions Poetes
- •Text 5. The Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
- •Text 6. Lutsk, Ukraine: Host to the First European Summit
- •Text 7. The Creation of Adam
- •In the Vatican 1508–1512) Michelangelo an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet
- •Text 8. Behind The Scenes At Parker Pen Do as the Natives Do, But Should You Eat the Roast Gorilla Hand
- •Text 9. Tips for communicating with people from other cultures
- •Text 10. A Warning to Beginners
- •Text 11. Introduction
- •Text 12. The Language
- •Text 13. Manners and Morals
- •Text 14. The Weather
- •Examples for conversation
- •Text 15. Body language
- •Text 16. Social behaviour and manners
- •Аристофан
- •Демокрит
- •Вергилий
- •Леонардо да Винчи
- •Микеланджело
- •Григорий Сковорода
- •Vincent Van Gogh
- •Friedrich Nietzsche
- •Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
- •Democritus
- •Література
- •49000, М. Дніпропетровськ, вул. Набережна Леніна, 18.
- •49044, М. Дніпропетровськ, вул. Гоголя, 15а.
Vocabulary practice
I. Find equivalents in the text for the following.
Vergilius (Virgil) – «Petriad» by M. Lomonosov –
The emperor Augustus – «Henriad» by Voltaire –
Aeneid – the goddess Venus –
Jesus Christ – Homer –
Rome – Maecenas –
Hercules –
Aenei of Trоy –
Athens –
«Divine Comedy» by Dante –
II. Match the following words and word combinations to their correct meaning:
1. prophet упреки
2. ides точность
3. patronage суд, осуждение
4. rhetorics покровительство
5. epitaph иды
6. reproach предшественник
7. narrative пророк
8. accuracy риторика
9. judgement повествование
10. predecessor эпитафия
III. Translate the given adjectives, suggest their synonyms and make up word combinations, sentences of your own:
1. powerful
2. famous
3. curious
4. noble
5. funny
6. safe
7. beneficent
8. rural
9. daring
10. numerous
IV. Memorize the following collocations:
1. Prophet – пророк.
The Prophet – Магомет.
The Prophets – книги пророков Ветхого Завета.
2. Предсказатель: weather-prophet – предвестник бури;
no man is a prophet in his country – нет пророка в своем отечестве;
prophetic dream – пророческий сон.
3. Maecenas, patron of the arts – меценат;
Меценатство – patronage of the arts;
воля – will; последняя воля – last will;
исполнить чью-л. волю – to fulfill smb.’s will;
по доброй (по собственной) воле – of one’s own will;
против своей воли – against one’s will.
V. Make a list of key words and word combinations from the text with their translation equivalents.
высшие круги общества – the higher circles of society;
покровительство богов – patronage of gods;
могущественный чернокнижник – a powerful magician.
Translation/interpreting practice
1. Snow-ball interpreting.
Train your memory and repeat after the speaker (without looking into the text)
a) in Russian b) in English
1. Его почитали как поэта. В первом веке до н. э. его почитали как поэта. В первом веке до н. э. его почитали как поэта, обласканного самим императором Августом. В первом веке до н. э. его почитали как поэта, а его произведения изучали в римских школах. |
1. He was respected as the poet. In the first century B. C. he was respected as the poet. In the first century B. C. he was respected as the poet to whom the emperor Augustus himself showed kindness. In the first century B. C. he was respected as the poet and his works were studied at Roman school. |
2. В его «Энеиде» нашли предсказание о рождении Иисуса Христа. С наступлением христианской эпохи в его «Энеиде» нашли предсказание о рождении Иисуса Христа. С наступлением христианской эпохи в его «Энеиде» нашли предсказание о рождении Иисуса Христа, а самого поэта назвали величайшим пророком. |
2. The prediction about the birth of Jesus Christ was found in his «Aeneid». With the coming of Christianity epoch the prediction about the birth of Jesus Christ was found in his «Aeneid».
With the coming of Christianity epoch the prediction about the birth of Jesus Christ was found in his «Aeneid» and the poet was called the greatest prophet. |
3. Предсказание начало сбываться довольно быстро. Предсказание начало сбываться довольно быстро: сыну небогатого владельца гончарной мастерской удалось поступить в школу риторики в Риме. Предсказание начало сбываться довольно быстро: сыну небогатого владельца гончарной мастерской удалось поступить в школу риторики в Риме, где обучались юноши из знатных семей. |
3. The prediction came true very soon.
The prediction came true very soon: a son of the potter’s workshop owner of modest means succeeded in entering the school of rhetorics in Rome.
The prediction came true very soon: a son of the potter’s workshop owner of modest means succeeded in entering the school of rhetorics in Rome where youths from noble families studied. |