Рекомендации для срс при подготовке к занятию по переводу статьи.

1. Students need: а newspaper article; a vocabulary; an English-Russian dictionary.

2. In the vocabulary the student puts down the title

3. While reading the first sentence the student comes across an unknown word, word combination, phrasal verb or idiom. The student must look it up in the dictionary, find the suitable variant and write it down into the vocabulary.

For example:

English	Transcription	Russian translation
to read	[ri:d]	читать
doubtful	[dautful]	сомнительный

It is necessary to find the right variant of translation right on the spot because one and the same word may have several lexical meanings.

For example:

to run quickly – to move fast

to run a café – to keep the management of a café under control

4. Each page number is fixed in the vocabulary and it makes it easy to find the necessary word in the vocabulary while analyzing the portion at the lesson or answering the teacher’s question or translating of a passage.

5. In case the student can’t find the right translation or finds it difficult to translate a sentence, a phrase or a passage he or she should make notes in the vocabulary in order to ask for the teacher’s help at the beginning of the lesson.

For example:

English	Transcription	Russian translation
CV
G.H.Q

CV- curriculum vita

G.H.Q. – General Headquarters

6. After the translation of the portion the student reads it once again. This is a good exercise for the memory and helps to enlarge the vocabulary for at this time the student sees the new word and tries to remember the meaning without look it up in the dictionary. In case the student can’t remember the word he or she has the vocabulary at hand.

7. After that the student learns the words from the vocabulary. It is recommended to translate the English words first as it is easier and then star to translate the Russian words.

8. Having learnt the words the student reads the portion for the third time. Now the student knows the words and reads the comprehensible text fluently.

9. Now the student is able to point out the main idea of the portion to make the proper retelling of the portion using the new words and word combinations in the speech.

Статьи для самостоятельной работы студентов

1. Bush tries to slash soaring deficit

President George W Bush sought to portray himself as a sound custodian of America's public finances yesterday as he proposed a $2,770 billion (£1,570 billion) budget to Congress that he said would help to tame the country's soaring deficit.

The President's plan calls for a virtual freeze on all-discretionary spending outside of the defence and homeland security budgets, and proposes a $36 billion cut in Medicare - a federal health insurance plan for elderly people with disabilities.

About 140 other programmes, including those for education and transport, would also see reductions in funding.

Controversially, however, the President will ask Congress to make his first-term tax cuts permanent. Critics see the cuts as offering relief only for the wealthy, even as the deficit is predicted to surge to more than $400 billion this year, more than $100 billion higher than in 2005.

However, Mr. Bush claims that his blueprint will still enable the United States to cut the deficit in half by 2009, in part through increased revenues if, for example, oil drilling is allowed in Alaska's Arctic Wildlife Refuge.

The current administration inherited a budget surplus from the Clinton regime although that has swung into deficit due in part to the cost of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and is now threatened further by the cost of rebuilding the Gulf Coast after last year's hurricanes.

Yesterday's budget proposes a record $439 billion to be spent on defence, aimed at fighting both unconventional terrorism and large conflicts if necessary.

There are key mid-term elections in the US Congress this year and fiscally conservative Republicans are urging the administration to get tough on spending, although those standing for re-election may be squeamish about cutting certain programmes as they prepare to face voters.