The 16th of March passed, with predictable result. Every Ukrainian has his or her own opinion about this event and the situation in Crimea. But what did the media abroad show? Let’s see this “referendum” with the eyes of CNN reporters and audience. Background – names, organizations and event you should know about: Perevalne –a village in Crimea. The Ukrainian 36th separate machanised coastal infantry brigade is located there and during the Crimean crisis 2014 was surrounded by the Russian or unknown troops without military rank insignia or cockade. Sergei Aksyonov - is a Ukrainian politician and de facto Prime Minister of Crimea. During an armed occupation of the Crimean parliament by pro-Russian forces, Aksyonov was subsequently voted into office following a vote of no confidence in the new Ukrainian government. Voting booth or polling booth is a room or cabin in a polling station where voters are able to cast their vote in private to protect the secrecy of the ballot. Ballot paper - a paper used for voting in a ballot Election monitoring - is the observation of an election by one or more independent parties, typically from another country or a non-governmental organization (NGO), primarily to assess the conduct of an election process on the basis of national legislation and international standards. In order to understand this video we’ll need to know the following words. |
16 марта прошло с предполагаемым результатом. Каждый украинец имеет свое мнение о событиях и ситуации в Крыму. Но что показывали СМИ за границей? Давайте посмотрим на этот "референдум" глазами репортеров и зрителей CNN. Полезная информация – имена, организации и события, которые вам следует знать. Перевальное – село в Крыму. В Перевальном находится 36-я отдельная бригада береговой обороны, которая во время Крымского кризиса 2014 года была окружена российскими или неизвестными военными без опознавательных знаков, воинских званий или кокард. Сергей Аксенов – украинский политик и де факто премьер-министр Крыма. Во время вооруженной оккупации Крымского парламента пророссийскими силами Аксенов был избран на должность после выражения недоверия новому украинскому правительству. Polling booth – кабинка для голосования – при секретном голосовании специально оборудованное для сохранения секрета голосования индивидуальное место в помещении для голосования. Ballot paper – избирательный бюллетень – документ, используемый для голосования на выборах. Election monitoring – наблюдение за выборами одной или несколькими независимыми сторонами, обычно из другой страны или общественных организаций, в первую очередь, чтобы оценить проведение избирательного процесса на соответствующем национальному законодательству и международным стандартам уровне. Чтобы понять это видео, нам нужно знать следующие слова. |
Vocabulary:
Turnout |
the number of people who participate in or attend an event |
явка |
Transparent |
able to be seen through |
прозрачный |
Civilian clothing |
Not connected with military or police |
гражданский, гражданская одежда |
Essentially |
basically |
по сути |
To surrender |
To give the control to someone else, to give up |
сдаться |
To swear allegiance |
to promise loyalty or devotion |
дать присягу на верность |
Newly-appointed |
selected for the job recently |
новоназначенный |
Sate passage |
moving or passing from one place or state to another |
безопасный проход |
To bring someone's attention to |
to mention or show something to someone |
обратить внимание на |
Illegitimate |
Not allowed according to law, illegal |
нелегитимный |
Evident |
clear to the sight or mind, obvious |
очевидный |
Presumably |
very likely |
возможно |
Blazing |
of outstanding power, speed, heat, or intensity |
интенсивный, сильный, красочный |
Blaring |
loud and strident |
ревущий |
And now replace the highlighted phrases in the following sentences by the ones we learnt. If you have difficulties with the task, try watching and inserting necessary phrases at the same time. |
А теперь замените выделенные фразы в этих предложениях теми, что мы изучили. Если у вас возникли проблемы с этим заданием, попробуйте снова просмотреть видео и одновременно вставлять необходимые фразы. |
- blaring
- blazing
- civilian clothes
- essentially
- evidently
- illegitimate
- newly-appointed
- presumably
- safe passage
- to bring to attention
- to surrender
- to swear allegiance
- transparent
- turnout
- I talked to the head of the electoral commission, a woman who’s looked over 7 elections in her time and she says the amount of people is much stronger and everyone is much happier than before.
- I’ve had a glimpse at these see-through ballot boxes too.
- He said if any were, they would be coming out in the not military outfits, apparently so as not to cause any kind of provocation.
- At the gates of that base you have these self-defense militia who basically have been helping Russian troops all around the base to stop the Ukrainians really from coming out.
- Here they have not given up, they have not promised loyalty to the Crimean authorities.
- Sergey Aksyonov the recently chosen for the office pro-Russian leader here in Crimea has said that when this referendum is over, when the counts show that it is going Russia’s way that here seems to be more a question when than if, then those troops will be an illegal armed operation on Crimea soil although he said there’ll be safe trip.
- I want to show ouraudience something that we shot earlier.
- And all of them had a very specific political view, which was that government in Kiev was not legal.
- You also mentioned to us this morning that pro-Russian troops are obvious there at these polling locations.
- We’ve had some powerful dance tunes coming out as well, most likely to welcome all those pensioners who remember Soviet times.
- I’ve got to tell you, an hour ago it was snowing here, we had this loud music, over there I can see Russian soldiers milling around.
Language 1
So it does raise questions on whether this vote really is free and fare.
Does raise – this phrase seems weird for common narrative sentence. We are used to seeing this word order in question. But this word order is used in Present Simple and Past Simple when we want to strongly emphasize the sentence and pass some really important information. In such cases we use auxiliary verb (helping verb) before the verb itself. This emphasis can be translated with the words “actually”, “really”.We give the auxiliary verbs an extra stress in pronunciation to make it sound louder, longer or higher in tone. |
Does raise – эта фраза кажется странной для обычного повествовательного предложения. Обычно мы видим такой порядок слов в вопросных предложениях. Но такой порядок слов используется в Present Simple и Past Simple, когда мы хотим сильно подчеркнуть предложение и донести какую-то действительно важную информацию. В таких случаях мы ставим вспомогательный глагол перед самим глаголом. Такое ударение может быть переведено как "действительно", "таки". При произношении эти вспомогательные глаголы следует сильнее подчеркнуть, чтобы они звучали громче, длиннее или же на тон выше. |
I do know that I can’t drink alcohol with these pills, stop repeating it, please. (I actually know, Я таки знаю) |
Language 2
But what we also cannot ignore is this music that is filling the air around you. |
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What we see in this sentence is another way of emphasizing.It is an example of cleft sentence. This is the structure of such cleft sentences: |
Что мы видим в этом предложении, так это еще один способ делать смысловое ударение. Это пример cleft sentence – разделенного предложения. Обычно такое предложение состоит из двух частей, в каждой из них есть глагол. Это структура такого предложения: |
What clause+ be + (to) infinitive/noun What I like about you is your honesty. – I like your honesty |
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And now I’ll ask you to continue two sentences: 1. I do believe that… I’m waiting for your ideas in the comments or my e-mail: [email protected] |
А теперь я попрошу вас продлить два предложения: 1. I do believe that… Жду ваших идей в комментариях или по электронному адресу: [email protected] |
Answers to the previous issue.
Vocabulary Task
- unprecedented
- life raft; didn't pan out
- encouraged; investigators; baffled
- combing
- puzzled; perplexing
- vanishing
- spot
- crew
- ruled out, hijacking
Language Task (Examples)
1. It may have crashed
The plane may have been hijacked.
It may have been abducted by aliens.
It may have exploded.
2. Loch Ness Monster has been the greatest mystery of the world so far.
Prepared by Olha Yankova