RENDERING. Богатова С.М - 8 стр.

being». Of course it does, but just consider for a moment the following         4 They have in fact embarked on an           4. Learning a foreign language is
sentences:                                                                      activity that could last the rest of their   a difficult lifelong activity…(9
        1. There are several men missing in this chess chest.                   lives. (16 words)                            words)
        2. The boat was manned entirely by women and children.                  5. The experience makes them realize         5. …and makes aware that we do
        You may argue that these sentences are somewhat unnatural;              that they are not only going to have to      not necessary know our own
certainly they do not represent the everyday core meaning of the word           work very hard indeed if they want to        mother tongue really well (16
                                                                                succeed, but also that they are – in         words)
«man». They are, however, legitimate extensions of that core meaning,
                                                                                many cases – barely masters of the
the second being especially interesting because it is a verb and not a          language they call their own mother
noun, and suggests that we expect adult male human beings to serve as           tongue. (42 words)
the crew of ships, and not women and certainly not children. Part of the        6. Studying any language is, in, fact,       6. (incorporated into #4)
pleasure and genius of language may well arise out of this slight misuse        an endless voyage. (9 words)
of words. After all, if you call a person a cat or cabbage, no literal iden-    7. Each of thousands of languages            7. Languages are complex…(3
tification is intended, but a lot of meaning is nevertheless conveyed.          currently used in the world is a com-        words)
        A third misconception about language claims that every lan-             plex affair. (15 words)
guage is – or should be – equally used and understood by all its practi-        8. Many languages do have a standard         8. …many of them have standard
tioners everywhere. Certainly, users of the standard forms of English in        form – particularly on paper – and this      forms, regional dialects and vari-
the United Kingdom generally understand their equivalents in the                is what we learn, but they probably          ous social styles. Many of them
United States: the degree of similarity between these two major forms           also have a variety of regional dialects     are the result of the mingling of
of English is great. Dialect –users in these countries, however, have           and social styles, and many are the          other languages. (24 words)
serious problems understanding each other, to the extent that they may          product of the historical mingling of
wonder if they are actually using the same language. Someone from               other languages. (41 words)
Brooklyn, New York, will have a trouble with a Cockney from Lon-                9. The English language is just such a       9. English is just such a hy-
                                                                                hybrid. (8 words)                            brid…(6 words)
don; an old-style British Army colonel won’t do well in discussion
                                                                                10. It began its career just under two       10. …a form of German influ-
with a Californian flowerchild. Yet they all belong within the vast             thousand years ago as a form of an-          enced by French, Latin, Greek
community of 20th century world English.                                        cient German, collided with a special        and other languages. (12 words)
                                                                                kind of old French, was subjected to
        some original sentences                    reduced versions
      of the passages on language                  of these sentences           several waves of Latin and a flood of
 1. When we talk about learning a lan-     1. We often treat a language as      Greek , and since then has acquired
 guage like English, Japanese or Span-     though it were a simple unchang-     bits and pieces of every other language
 ish, we speak and think as though the     ing thing (13 words)                 that its users have ever been in contact
 language in question were a fixed un-                                          with. (57 words)
 changing thing (27 words)                                                                   Total 250 words                          Total 103 words
 2. We expect to learn it as we learned    2. We expect to learn it as we
 geometry or how to ride a bicycle –       learned geometry or how to ride a         Ann Lander is one of the most widely read advice columnists in
 systematically, and with clear ultimate   bicycle (16 words)                  the United States. Many consider her an expert in human relationships.
 success. (21 words)                                                           Here she gives advice on choosing a spouse.
 3 Many people subsequently give up        3. This is a misconception (4             Read Ann Landers’s six pieces of advice several times to be sure
 when they discover just what a mis-       words).                             that you understand them thoroughly. Then work with a partner to
 conception this is. (14 words)

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