FRENCH TO ENGLISH TRANSLATIONJennifer ValckeJennifer.Valcke@ulb.ac.be

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WHAT’S ON THE WIKI THIS WEEK?

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HOW TO USE THE WIKI (1/5) Team 1 = Wednesday 8-10h Team 2 = Wednesday 10-12h

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HOW TO USE THE WIKI (2/5) Select the Project by clicking on your team

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HOW TO USE THE WIKI (3/5) To add your text, click on the edit button

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HOW TO USE THE WIKI (4/5) Use the toolbar to add or edit text, to add

comments/links/files

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HOW TO USE THE WIKI (5/5) Always save your work!

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PROJECT 1« Mariage gay: non à la colusion de la haine »

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LET’S READ YOUR COLLABORATIVE TEXT

Refer to project 1 on the wiki to see what your class came up with!

All your corrections will be posted on the wiki this afternoon

You will always have a corrected text on the wiki

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MARIAGE GAY: NON À LA COLUSION DE LA HAINE

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SYNTAX, SPELLING & PUNCTUATIONSee “Accompanying Notes & Exercises”Home page of wiki

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OVERVIEW – READING TEXTS What is reading?

How do you read?

Various reading techniques

Who is your reader?

Text structure

Semantics, syntax & punctuation

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HOW DO WE READ?THE PHAOMNNEAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID

Aoccdrnig to rseearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in

what oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is

taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a

taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is

bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but

the wrod as a wlohe.

Amzanig huh? Now I'm tinkihng aobut all the tmie I wtsead in

sochol lrenanig how to slpel.

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READING TECHNIQUES Scanning a text Skimming a text (speed reading) Scrutinising a text (reading thoroughly)

Who is your reader?Primary audienceSecondary audienceAssumptions about knowledge, language ability,

preferences, etc.Questions of acceptability

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TEXT STRUCTURE (1/2) External structural concepts:

Text Context Subtext

Consider the following idioms: Read someone like a book Read between the lines Read the small/fine print Read the writing on the wall Read someone out of something

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TEXT STRUCTURE (2/2) Internal structural concepts:

Introduction Body (of text) Conclusion Paragraph Sentence Clause Word (morpheme) Letter Punctuation marks

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GRAMMATICAL RULES Internal structural concepts:

Syntax Grammar Word order Punctuation Spelling

Consider the following sentence:Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.

Punctuate the following sentence:woman without her man is nothing

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SEMANTICS

Woman: without her, man is nothing.OR

Woman, without her man, is nothing.

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PUNCTUATION (1/2) Punctuate the following sentences:

chris did not see how he could organize write and proofread this paper in only two hours

glamour the women's fashion magazine recently incorporated with charm another fashion journal

having finished the test he left the room

I am going home I intend to stay there

I appreciate your hard work however you seem to have over-exerted yourself

I had to complete the assignment by Friday otherwise I would have failed the course

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PUNCTUATION (2/2) if the opposition should win our candidate would never have any political

future

jack worked overtime to pay off his education debts at least that was his explanation for his long hours wasn’t it

joan who does not usually tell anyone what she feels said she didn't want to go to the dance

johnson’s prescription for the economy lower interest rates higher employment and less government spending was rejected by the president’s administration

judge carswell later to be nominated for the supreme court had ruled against civil rights

For more, see Accompanying Notes & Exercises on Wiki

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-300 English III 2010-2011

FOR NEXT WEEK… Look at Project 2

Let’s discuss: what’s this text about? Use the wiki to make your translation Who does what?