Advanced English for Translation [antikvár]

Introduction This book is designed for upper-intermediate and more_ advanced students of all nationalities who need to use English in their work, whether in business, the tourist industry or the professions, or who are preparing for the Cambridge Certificate ofProficiency and similar examinations. Like its less advanced companion volume, English for translation, this book provides material which is designed above all to enable translation work to become a positive, effective and enjoyable language-learning activity. The passages are drawn from a wide variety of sources, and the aim has been to give as representative a range as possible of the styles and registers found in contemporary written English. A number of recent Cambridge Proficiency examination papers are also included. Each passage is followed by exercises which direct the student's attention to significant points of structure and usage contained in the text and provide practice in those areas of English which are known to cause difficulty to foreign learners. The material may be further exploited at_a later stage if the student puts back into English those sentences which hie has earlier translated into his own language. Qennis Chamberlin Gillian White 1977