English I
Week August 24,
2015
nd
2
semester
Lecture 26
The aims for this
lecture are:
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to improve translation skills
to develop writing skills
to improve vocabulary
to improve communicative
competence
This message was left by Chissola.
She shares an apartment with
Sheila. Translate the message into
English.
Sheila
 Fui
visitar a minha mãe. Levei umas das tuas
camisolas. Está frio hoje! Já comeste? Fui ao
supermercado, portanto há comida no
frigorífico para ti. Não vi o Miguel hoje, mas
a Lurdes acabou de sair. Ela comeu o teu
bolo! (Tá sempre com fome!)
 Chissola
Possible solution
 Sheila
 I´ve
got to visit my mum. I took one of
your t.shirts. It´s cold today! Have you
already eaten? I´ve been to the
supermarket, so there´s some food in
the fridge for you. I haven´t seen
Miguel today, but Lurdes has just gone
out. She´s eaten your cake! (She´s
always hungry!)
 Chissola
Translate into Portuguese
 Dear
Joana
 Thank you for your letter about
holiday in Africa. When I was staying
in Kenya last year, I saw a tiger near
my hotel. It was about eleven o’clock
in the evening. I was walking back to
the hotel with two friends. We were
returning from a restaurant.The
moon was shining. It was a beautiful
evening.
Translation continues
We
were about a hundred
metres from our hotel. Then
we saw a tiger. It was sitting
under a tree near the road.
We stopped immediately. It
was a big tiger, but it was
also very old.
Possible solution
Querida Joana
Obrigada pela carta sobre as tuas
férias em África. Quando estive
no Quénia, no ano passado, vi um
tigre perto do meu hotel. Era
perto das onze da noite. Eu
caminhava de volta para o hotel
com dois amigos; vínhamos de
um restaurante.
Possible translation continues
A
lua brilhava e estava uma noite
linda. Estávamos mais ou menos a
cem metros do hotel, quando
vimos um tigre. (O tigre) estava
sentado debaixo de uma árvore,
perto da estrada. Parámos
imediatamente.
Era um grande tigre, mas muito
velho.
Questions for Discussion
 What
did you find interesting in
the texts?
 What didn’t you like in the text?
 Did you learn new words from
these texts? Which ones?
 What did you find easy / difficult
translating?
Homework
 Exploring
Joana’s letter, write
also a letter to a friend talking
about one of your holiday
adventures.
Announcement(s)
Test
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7th September