Render the following extract into English, using the language of the episode.

Teachers’ Notes: обратите внимание студентов на приемы перевода, предложите им использовать уже изученные приемы перевода.

Несчастливой считается не только пятница,13.Любой день календаря, на котором стоит цифра 13, вызывает опасение. По оценкам специалистов экономики стран Европы и Америки теряют миллиарды долларов в те дни, на которые выпадает 13-ое число. Люди отказываются выкупать билеты на самолеты и поезда, меньше посещают общественные места. Снижается объем продаж.

Но некоторым людям в этот день, наоборот, улыбается удача. «Ну, число 13 приносит мне удачу. 33 года я работал страховым агентом, и именно в пятницу, 13-го я всегда продавал самое большое количество страховых полисов»

(04:55) It isn’t only Friday the 13th that is considered unlucky (1), any calendar day marked 13 is considered troublesome (2). Estimates suggest that days numbered 13 cost economies throughout the western world billions (3)of dollars a year through train and plane reservation cancellation, absenteeism, and reduced commerce (4).

But not everyone has bad luck on Friday the 13^th (5). “Well, it’s a good luck for me. I was in insurance broker for 33 years (6) and I saw more insurance (6) on Friday the 13th than on any day in the whole of my career.”

(1) – изменение порядка слов

(2) - целостное преобразование

(3) – ложный друг переводчика

(4) – дробление (предложения)

(5) – антонимический перевод

(6) – лексическая и грамматическая трансформация

7 SPEAKING POINTS. How far do you agree with the following statements? Provide real-life examples.

1. Superstitions get people through their trouble spots.

2. Superstition is an integral part of the culture.

3. Sportsmen resort to lucky charm in order to better concentrate on their performance.

4. Though sceptics insist that superstitions don’t work are still fearfully involved.

5. It is fear that breeds superstitions.

6. ‘Friday begun and never be done’.

(a little rhyme in English folklore, that is if you start something on Friday, you’re not gonna finish it, so don’t do it on Friday.)

Superstitions - Part 2

1 Look through the NOTES and watch the Episode “ Superstitions - Part 2”. (Мультимедийный каталог 1556 →Unit 10)

Feng Shui – an Asian practice of balancing the Earth elements

Voodoo mumbo – a priest practicing Voodoo

Blueprint – here: a plan or outline

snip - a small quick cut made with scissors: to get a snip into a body

gallows - a wooden frame used for killing criminals by hanging them from it with a rope around their neck

succumb - to lose your ability to fight against someone or something, and allow them to control or persuade you: to succumb to the fear

2 Check you know the meanings of the words and phrases given in the box, make use of them when covering the information provided in the episode:

Teachers’ Notes: Choose any of the items for scripting as a home assignment.

1. Being paralyzed by a superstition.

Superstition grasp to take smth to the extreme drive to win to adopt to take over to become an obsession to face a problem

2. Voodoo practice.

to breed superstition spells for to run practice a selection of to elate fears to gain one’s power contagious magic to cut across

elate - to fill with high spirits, exhilaration; contagious - catching; infectious; заразительный

3. Feng Shui, the oldest superstition

to develop over to balance elements to be widely practiced trinket luck charms to bring balance to Feng Shui practitioners interior decorating to blame for to calculate the energy “blueprint”

trinket - пустяк, безделушка; a small or worthless ornament or piece of jewellery; blueprint - an original plan or prototype that influences subsequent design or practice

4. Billy Goat Curse

an ardent man a pet goat an occasional game buy a box seat to go berserk to curse smb to rub the curse out

ardent - characterized by intense desire or emotion; passionate; горячий, пылкий, to go berserk - прийти в бешенство, прийти в ярость;

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