Задание: Прослушайте и повторите максимально точно без опоры на текст. Переведите.

1. It takes seventy-two muscles to frown, but only thirteen to smile. (Unknown)

2. Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. (Robert Heinlein)

3. “Nobody made a bigger mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” (Edmund Burke)

4. “Freedom is when the people can speak; democracy is when the government listens.”
(Alastair Farrugia)

5. “There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.” (Russian proverb)

6. If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. (Jim Rohn)

7. At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment. (Ben Franklin)

8. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. (Oscar Wilde)

9. “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. …I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.” (Mahatma Gandhi)

10. If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever. ( Doug Horton)

1. LISTENING

Задание. Прослушайте, делая необходимые записи. Передайте содержание текста на русском языке.

Things French kings never said

In their «Little inventory of mishandled quotations” Paul Desalmand and Yves Stallini delight in knocking down famous lines that were outright invented or wrongly attributed to great figures of the past. The authors blame lazy journalists and historians for popularising dodgy quotes and making them up because they sound right.

1. Among these apocryphal quotations is King Henri IV's “Paris is well worth a mass”. No trace of this legendary quip by the ex-protestant king can be found in historical records. They suggest that it may have been invented by enemies of the popular 16th century ruler who switched to catholicism in order to have the crown.
2. Another quote spread by enemies is certainly Marie-Antoinette's 'let them eat cake'. The doomed queen never uttered the line or anything like it when the hungry Parisians were at the gates of Versailles.
3. Louis XIV never uttered the boast about being the embodiment of the state. The legend took off in 1655 when the 17-year-old monarch exerted his authority over the Paris parliament. There is no record of his using such language, which in any case would have contradicted his lifelong belief that he was the servant of l'Etat, not its incarnation.
4. Voltaire never uttered anything like his famous line on free speech "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it". The authors say the quotation was invented in the United States and popularised in dictionaries of quotations there.
5. Herman Goering never said "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver". It came from a 1933 play by Hanns Johst, a pro-Nazi writer, whose character said "When I hear the word culture, I load my Browning".

2. SIGHT TRANSLATION 1

Indiana Jones makes communists see red

1.ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russian Communist party members condemned the new Indiana Jones' film as crude anti-Soviet propaganda that distorted history and called for it to be banned from Russian screens. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" stars Harrison Ford as an archeologist in 1957 competing with an evil KGB agent, played by Cate Blanchett, to find a skull endowed with mystic powers."What galls is how together with America we defeated Hitler, and how we sympathized when Bin Laden hit them. But they go ahead and scare kids with Communists. These people have no shame," said Viktor Perov, a Communist Party member in Russia's second city of St Petersburg.

2. "Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett (are) second-rate actors, serving as the running dogs of the CIA. We need to deprive these people of the right of entering the country," said another party member, Andrei Gindos. Though the ranks of the once all-powerful Communist Party have dwindled since Soviet times, its members see themselves as the defenders of the achievements of the old Soviet Union.In 1998 the Russian parliament demanded the government explain why the Hollywood film "Armageddon" - which depicted a dilapidated Russian space station that blows apart because of a leaky pipe - was allowed onto Russian cinema screens. A government official at the time said the film, starring Bruce Willis as the leader of a team of astronauts sent to deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, "mocked the achievements of Soviet and Russian technology."

3. SIGHT TRANSLATION 2

Tайна серебристых облаков. Предупреждение

1. Первые детальные снимки загадочных серебристых облаков в атмосфере Земли сделал из космоса недавно запущенный американский спутник "Аэрономия льда в мезосфере" (AIM).

Эти красивые облака, возникающие в приполярных областях атмосферы на высоте приблизительно 80 км, остаются пока для ученых загадкой. Они формируются в мезосфере - практически на границе с космосом. С земли их можно наблюдать в течение всего нескольких часов после захода Солнца, когда они красиво светятся в небе, но никто пока не может объяснить механизм их возникновения, их поведение и их связь с другими атмосферными процессами.

2. "Ясно, что эти облака изменяются и это является признаком того, что изменяется часть атмосферы, но мы не понимаем как, почему и что это означает", - прокомментировал ситуацию специалист по физике атмосферы из Хэмптонского университета (штат Вирджиния) Джеймс Рассел. По его словам, нынешние наблюдения позволяют нащупать связь с глобальными изменениями в нижних слоях атмосферы, которые, возможно, служат первыми предупреждениями о том, что окружающая среда Земли претерпевает изменения.

4. INTERPRETING SKILLS TRAINING

Задание. Первый студент прочитывает/прослушивает фразу и переводит ее. Второй, опираясь на услышанный оригинал и перевод, пытается восстановить исходную фразу (в режиме от 1 до 5 минут). (в парах)

1 The first working microchip 1. The first working microchip, or integrated circuit, was demonstrated at Texas Instruments by one of the company’s newest employees, Jack Kilby, on September 12, 1958. 2. In July that year Kilby had not been allowed to go on holiday because he had only just joined the company. 3. He used the time to try to solve the problem of how to connect up a large number of electronic components in elaborate circuits in a cost-effective and efficient way. 4. Inventor of the first working integrated circuit, went on to create the first hand-held calculator and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000. 5. The microchip virtually created the modern computer industry, and the internet would be unthinkable without it. 6. The key to the success of the microchip is that the cost of manufacturing them has remained low because the chips, with all their components, are printed as a unit. 7. At the same time their performance is high because the components switch quickly and consume little power..

2. France plans revolution in space 1. Ambitious plans for European missions to the Moon and Mars are being considered by the French government. 2. It wants to kick-start a revolution in space by letting EU politicians not bureaucrats decide on priorities for the European Space Agency (ESA). 3. The French say that if Europe fails to change its approach to space, it will fall behind Japan, China and India. 4. Paris is seeking an alliance with the UK to drive the agenda forward during the French presidency of the EU. 5. Speaking to the BBC, a senior official involved in French space policy said that it was time to shake up the European Space Agency and make it more like the US space agency (NASA) by giving it a new, politically-led direction. 6. The official said that Europe was in danger of becoming redundant in global space terms and it needed an agency that followed a clear political agenda. 7. "The United States, Russia, China and Japan would not do what they do in space without a political motivation; Europe has only had a scientific motivation until now.

Отходы пивоварения пойдут на производство электричества   1. Австралийский производитель пива Foster's приступает к практическим испытаниям методики получения экологически чистой энергии из технологических отходов пивоваренного процесса, передает Associated Press. 2. Для этого используется специальная культура бактерий, питающихся углеводами, и содержащая сахара, крахмал и алкоголь жидкость, остающаяся при переработке сусла. 3. Научную поддержку пивоварам оказали специалисты из Университета Квинсленда. 4. На разработки был выделен государственный грант в размере 115 тысяч долларов. 5. В результате был создан работающий биогенератор объемом 2,5 кубических метра, вырабатывающий электричество и чистую воду. 6. В ближайшее время планируется строительство генератора в 250 раз больше, мощностью в 2 киловатта.

4. Свадьба в космосе за 2,3 млн. долларов 1. Японская фирма First Advantage начала принимать заказы на проведение церемоний бракосочетания в космосе. 2. Это удовольствие обойдется каждой паре в 240 млн. иен (2,3 млн. долларов). 3. Полет на высоту в 100 км будет длиться один час, несколько минут брачующиеся и трое их гостей проведут в невесомости. 4. Предполагается, что в этот момент жених и невеста обменяются клятвами в верности. 5. В проекте участвует также американская фирма Rocket Plane, которая в 2011 году собирается начать частные полеты в космос с космодрома в штате Оклахома. 6. По словам представителя First Advantage Таро Кацура, компания ожидает, что большинство ее клиентов будут из Китая и стран Персидского залива. 7. Руководство фирмы пока не планирует предложить свои услуги жителям США. 8. Первым космическим туристом стал американский миллиардер Деннис Тито, который в 2001 году заплатил 20 млн. долларов Российскому космическому агентству за билет на МКС.

5. 2-WAY INTERPRETING

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