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Slang peculiar to or originating from public schools
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The following list includes some commonly used slang terms, and some historic slang, used at public schools in the UK:
| Term | Meaning | Specificity |
| ABROAD | Out of the sick room. | Winchester |
| BAD EGG | A nasty and unpleasant person. | - |
| BEARDS! | An exclamation of surprise. | The Leys |
| BEDDER | A bedmaker and cleaner. | Also used in Cambridge University |
| BIBBLING | Six strokes of the cane | Winchester |
| BRUSHING | Flogging. | Christ's Hospital |
| CARRELL | A booth for private study | St Paul's School |
| CHEESE | A dandy. | Cambridge |
| CHINNER | Wide grin | Winchester |
| CLIPE | To tell tales. | - |
| COXY | Conceited | - |
| EXECUTION | Flogging by the Head Master with a birchrod. | Eton |
| FAG | A junior boy who acts as servant for a sixth-former. | - |
| GOD | A prefect or sixth former. | Eton |
| GOOD EGG | A trustworthy or reliable person (later inversion of BAD EGG). | - |
| MAJOR | Such as Smith Major, the elder brother. | - |
| MAXIMUS | Such as Smith Maximus, the eldest brother (of three or more). | - |
| MINIMUS | Such as Smith Minimus, the youngest brother (of three or more). | - |
| MINOR | Such as Smith Minor, the younger brother. | - |
| MUZZ | To read. | Westminster |
| NEWBIE | New boy; now a general term. | - |
| PEPPER | To fill in the accents on a Greek exercise. | - |
| PLEB | A junior boy. | - |
| QUILL | To flatter. | Winchester |
| RAG | A misdemeanour, hence: | - |
| RAG WEEK | where sponsored 'misdemeanours' are common. | Also used at some universities |
| SAPPY | Severe flogging. | - |
| SHELL | A boy in the youngest year | Harrow, St. Edward's, Winchester; org. from Westminster. |
| TITCHING | caning | Christ's Hospital |
Task 3. Translate the following sentences:
1. Я предпочитаю документальное кино и хронику всем остальным жанрам – детективу, триллеру, вестерну, приключенческому, фантастике, трагедии. Я остаюсь совершенно равнодушным ко всем этим новомодным веяниям в кинематографе со всей его мишурой, звёздами и звёздочками-однодневками.
2. Автором картин является умерший в 1999 году малоизвестный при жизни художник-абстракционист армянского происхождения Артур Пинаджан. Стоимость отдельных из примерно 3 тысяч его картин, рисунков, набросков достигает 87 тысяч долларов.
3. У одной из самых знаменитых картин Рубенса «Пир Богов на Олимпе», писаной маслом по холсту, долго неизвестной оставалась дата создания. Когда к ней присмотрелись астрономы, оказалось, что персонажи расположились точно так же, как в 1602 году располагались планеты.
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4. В этом клубе очень строгий дресс-код, поэтому надень, пожалуй, вот то своё изысканное платье – оно так выгодно подчеркивает твою красивую фигуру.
5. Полотно известного немецкого художника-импрессиониста Карла Вальтера (Karl Walther, 1905-1981), приобретенное в свое время Адольфом Гитлером (Adolf Hitler) на Большой немецкой художественной выставке (Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung) в Мюнхене, в субботу, 2 марта продается с молотка в тюрингском городе Рудольштадт.
6. Несмотря на то, что она очень устала, ей было приятно осознавать, что статья получилась неплохая, хотя, может, и следовало бы дать больше примеров.
7. В своём докладе учёный несколько раз ссылался на последние эксперименты, результаты которых таковы, что он не потерпит, чтобы ему мешали.
1. I like documentaries and chronicle all the other genres - mystery, thriller, westerns, adventure, fantasy, tragedy. I remain completely indifferent to all these newfangled trends in film, with all its tinsel, stars and stars one-day.
2. Motif is dead in 1999, during the life of a little-known abstract artist of Armenian origin Arthur Pinadzhan. Value of certain of about 3 thousand of his paintings, drawings, sketches, up to 87 thousand dollars.
3. One of the most famous paintings of Rubens' Feast of the Gods on Olympus, "a written oil on canvas, long remained unknown to the creation date. When she shopped, astronomers found that the characters are located in the same way as in 1602, settled the planet.
4. This club is very strict dress code, so put on, perhaps, that his or her exquisite dress - it is so profitable emphasizes your beautiful figure.
5. The canvas of the famous German impressionist painter Walter Charles (Karl Walther, 1905-1981), acquired at the time Adolf Hitler (Adolf Hitler) on the Great German Art Exhibition (Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung) in Munich, on Saturday, March 2, sold by auction in the Thuringian in Rudolstadt.
6. Despite the fact that she was tired, she was pleased to see that article turned out quite good, though, maybe you would like to give more examples.
7. In its report, the scientist referred several times to the latest experiments, the results are such that it will not tolerate that hindered him.
CARD 3
Task 1. Comment upon the suggested topic. Your friend has agreed to come with you and two other friends to an Art Gallery. Suddenly he changes his mind and says he wants to go to the seaside. You try to persuade him to stay with you.
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Aleksey Apollonov
"Heroes"
живопись
31 may 2011 - 23 june 2011
Presentation - 31 may 2011, tuesday, 19.00
Portraits in collection of artworks by Alexey Apollonov always held a special place. On the one hand, they clearly inferior to the place of "metaphysical landscape", a perfect example of which the artist creates for years. On the other hand, background of his landscapes is usually full of human characters, too brisk, so that they can be ignored, too irrational, so they can be classified.
This time artist makes portraits of people of almost one social class, but in the end (as if he became scared of such classification cruelty) adds images of naked models and one and the only nature-mort “with fishes”. “Nature mort” vector might seem a whim of the artist but it is just an explanation of the whole idea: sketches (and there were dozens of them if not hundreds) fell as leaf litter on the floor of the workshop forming additional and extremely interesting mosaic. When Apollonov noticed this unusual effect, he took it on the art plane, where he combined simultaneously from four to six sketches on a single surface. It looks as if several phases of realization of one idea where put together on one easel, and you can’t either take one of them off or see the final result.
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An intermediate stage transformed into sustainability, temporal got its status of perpetual; additional appeared to be formative and fundamental.
Works
PopTrans (group)
"Eye to Eye"
живопись
9 march 2011 - 28 march 2011
Presentation - 9 march 2011, wednesday, 19.00
PopTrans in action
Transcarpathia is a unique area. This is not an advertising slogan for improving tourism potential. It is pure truth. Anyone who tries to deny this uniqueness will get retribution - while trying to arrange a meeting, fighting with a strange Transcarpathian language and their peculiar features of cosmological theories, or during severe hangover caused by yesterday's presentation, where huge wicker bottle of house wine was the central element of the study.
Transcarpathia is the land where traditions are carefully preserved, though are freely transformed in a variety of ways. Maybe this orthodox “bo tak musay” (“cause it has to be like this”) is one of the few ways to preserve their identity.
Some people say that Galician and Transcarpathian region is actually one single subethnos. To think that we are on opposing sides - the same as sitting on opposite sides of the same Carpathians. Or to be on different sides of the same table for coffee. Maybe this explains the phenomenon of "transcarpathian invasion" to the cultural life of Lviv, which is clearly manifested in recent years.
Or maybe something else. It does not matter. You have to understand by yourself. Because exhibition of Uzhgorod’s oldest art group "PopTrans" in the "Dzyga" gallery shows openly and frankly all that is fancy in Transcarpathian region: familiar uniqueness and digital traditions, multiculturality and unlimited auto-xenophobia, stupid giggling and deep philosophical study, friendly comfort and solemn grandeur. In short, "AYTUAY" is an eye-to-eye, a tete-a-tete, two-way mirror and a fascinating dialogue.
Group members:
Vadym Harabaruk
Andrew Stegura
Pavlo Kovach
Marsel Onysko
Nataliya Shevchenko
Robert Saller
Viktor Pokidanets
Works
Task 3. Translate the following sentences:
1. Талантливый фильм это талантливая совокупная работа всех участвующих в его создании - режиссёра, сценариста, редактора, звукооператора, светотехников, постановщиков, реквизиторов, декораторов, пиротехников, гримёров, костюмеров, видеоинженеров, дублёров, каскадёров, не говоря уже о талантливой работе талантливых актёров.
2. С Вашей стороны было очень осмотрительно избавить нас от необходимости встречаться с этим неприятным человеком, хотя он при всех хорошо ко мне относится.
3. Преимущество их дачи в том, что она стоит в лесу, в стороне от дороги и мы можем полюбоваться вон той красивой сосной на фоне вечернего неба.
4. «Когда ты пишешь большую картину, ты находишься внутри своего переживания», - писал Ротко, гипнотизируя зрителя парящими прямоугольниками, отсутствием чётких границ, подвижной живописью, трепещущими красками.
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5. Элиза отдавала себе отчет в том, что скоро они не будут нуждаться в её услугах, и поэтому бросилась искать новую работу, предъявляя всем свои отличные рекомендации.
6. Результаты новых исследований швейцарской «Моны Лизы», известной как «Айзелуортская Мона Лиза», стоит рассматривать как доказательство того, что эта картина не является поздней копией «Джоконды» (1503-1505), а была написана самим Леонардо да Винчи.
7. Я не могу понять, что это там, на заднем фоне картины.
1. Talented film is a talented collection of works of all involved in its creation - director, screenwriter, editor, sound engineer, lighting technicians, directors, prop, decorators, pyrotechnics, make-up, costume, Video, double, stunt, not to mention the talented work of talented actors.
2. Your part was very cautious to deliver us from the need to meet this unpleasant person, although he at all good to me.
3. Giving them an advantage in the fact that it is in the forest, away from the road and we can enjoy the beautiful pine yonder against the evening sky.
4. "When you write the big picture, you are in his experience," - wrote Rothko, hypnotizing the viewer hovering boxes, the lack of clear boundaries, mobile painting fluttering colors.
5. Eliza was aware that soon they will not need for its services, and so rushed to find a new job, showing all your great recommendations.
6. New research findings from the Swiss "Mona Lisa", known as "Ayzeluortskaya Mona Lisa", is seen as evidence that this picture is a late copy of the "Mona Lisa" (1503-1505), and was painted by Leonardo da Vinci.
7. I can not understand that it is there, in the background picture.
CARD 4
Task 1. Tell about Pre-School system.
PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION in Britain
Pre-school education is provided by nursery schools. In England over one half of three- and four-year olds attend school and many other children attend pre-school playgroups, mostly organized by parents. (In Wales more than 70 per cent do so, while in Northern Ireland only about 15 per cent, but about 45 per cent start their compulsory schooling at 4).
There are not enough state nursery schools in Britain and people have campaigned for a long time to get more opened. There are private nurseries but these are expensive and a lot of families cannot afford them. Children start at 9 a.m. and finish at 3 p.m., they have their lunch at school and usually a rest in the afternoon. They play, paint, dance and sing and do the same things that all little children do. They do not have proper lessons.
PRE-SCHOOL AND ELEMENTARY EDUCATION in the U.S.A
Pre-school and elementary education includes nursery schools and kindergartens which are for children at the age of 4-6. Most of them are private. Many public schools have kindergartens attached, for the age group between 5 and 6. These kindergartens do not charge any money.
Compulsory education starts at the age of 6. Both elementary and secondary education is comprehensive in the U.S.A. - it means that there is no selection for various types of schools (every school learns the same subjects). Years are called "Grades" in the U.S.A. Elementary school lasts between 6 and 11 years of age. It is from the first till the fifth grade. The children at elementary schools learn to read, write, and do arithmetic, elementary science, history, geography, arts and crafts, physical education and music.
The atmosphere at elementary schools is usually friendly. Teachers keep to the idea that children's happiness and interest are the two most important things.
Task 3. Translate the following sentences:
1. На торги Christie's работами старых мастеров, которые пройдут 30 января, выставлен "Портрет молодого мужчины с книгой" кисти виднейшего представителя маньеризма Аньоло Бронзино.
2. Немые черно-белые фильмы начала ХХ века, несмотря на отсутствие каких бы то ни было спецэффектов, имели гораздо большую силу воздействия на умы и сознание людей, чем современные картины, напичканные последними достижениями техники и компьютерной графики.
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3. «Обожаю эту пьесу – это просто шедевр! Эта роль просто удивительно подходит Маги – она просто создана для неё. Как прекрасно она смотрится на сцене!
4. Как известно, древние египтяне изображали своих богов, людей и животных только в профиль. И не потому, что были плохими художниками – всё дело в религиозных воззрениях: рисунок – это не просто «мазня» по любой поверхности, а «дверь» между нашим миром и миром Ка.
5. Полотно известного немецкого художника-импрессиониста Карла Вальтера (Karl Walther, 1905-1981), приобретенное в свое время Адольфом Гитлером (Adolf Hitler) на Большой немецкой художественной выставке (Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung) в Мюнхене, в субботу, 2 марта продается с молотка в тюрингском городе Рудольштадт.
6. У одной из самых знаменитых картин Рубенса «Пир Богов на Олимпе», писаной маслом по холсту, долго неизвестной оставалась дата создания. Когда к ней присмотрелись астрономы, оказалось, что персонажи расположились точно так же, как в 1602 году располагались планеты.
7. Пейзажной живописи присуща широта обобщения, эмоциональная насыщенность, разнообразие изображаемых состояний природы и душевных переживаний.
1. At Christie's auction of old masters, to be held on January 30, put "Portrait of a young man with a book" painted a prominent representative of Mannerist Agnolo Bronzino.
2. Silent black and white movies of the early twentieth century, despite the absence of any effects it had a much larger force of impact on the minds and consciousness of the people than the current picture, stuffed with the latest technology and computer graphics.
3. "I love this piece - it's a masterpiece! This role is amazing fit Magee - it was made for her. How beautiful she looks on stage!
4. As you know, the ancient Egyptians depicted their gods, humans and animals only in profile. And not because they were poor artists - all a matter of religious beliefs: picture - it's not just a "scribble" on any surface, and the "door" between our world and the Ka.
5. The canvas of the famous German impressionist painter Walter Charles (Karl Walther, 1905-1981), acquired at the time Adolf Hitler (Adolf Hitler) on the Great German Art Exhibition (Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung) in Munich, on Saturday, March 2, sold by auction in the Thuringian in Rudolstadt.
6. One of the most famous paintings of Rubens' Feast of the Gods on Olympus, "a written oil on canvas, long remained unknown to the creation date. When she shopped, astronomers found that the characters are located in the same way as in 1602, settled the planet.
7. Landscape painting inherent breadth of generalization, emotional richness, diversity describes the state of nature and emotions.
CARD 5
Task 1. Tell about Independent Schools in England.
Independent and preparatory schools are private ones too. They prepare children for public schools and take money for the training. The teachers of the private schools can pay more attention to each of the pupils personally. It is possible to enter the best English universities after leaving public schools. After finishing grammar schools pupils have good knowledge and may continue studying in colleges and universities. English pupils wear school uniform. It is one of the oldest country's traditions. A boy's uniform includes a school cap, a tie and a blazer. A girl's uniform consists of a hat, a coat, a skirt and a blouse. The uniforms vary from school to school. Usually, they are dark.
Независимые и предварительные школы - частные также. Они готовят детей к общественным школам и берут деньги для обучения. Преподаватели частных школ могут уделить больше внимания к каждому из учеников лично. Возможно войти в лучшие английские университеты после отъезда общественных школ. После окончания учеников средних школ имеют хорошее знание и может продолжить учиться в колледжах и университетах. Английские ученики носят школьную униформу. Это - одна из традиций самой старой страны. Униформа мальчика включает школьную кепку, связь и спортивную куртку. Униформа девочки состоит из шляпы, пальто, юбки и блузы. Униформы изменяются от школы до школы. Обычно, они темны.
Independent school (UK)
An independent school in the United Kingdom is a school relying upon private sources for all of its funding, predominantly in the form of school fees. In England and Wales the term public school is often used to refer to what is normally called in other countries a "private" school, a term which originally referred to those schools named in the Public Schools Act 1868. These schools themselves tend to prefer the term "independent school".
Some independent schools, particularly the more traditional institutions, also have charitable status. Research shows that UK independent schools receive approximately £100m tax relief due to charitable status whilst returning £300m of fee assistance in public benefit and relieving the maintained sector (state schools) of £2bn of costs. [ http://www.isc.co.uk/uploads/documents/Charity%20Commission%20final%20report.pdf ISC ] ] There are more than 2,500 independent schools in the UK, educating some 615,000 children, [ http://www.isc.co.uk/FactsFigures_PupilNumbers.htm ISC ] ] the Daily Telegraph claiming seven per cent of children are educated in private schools throughout the country. [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/09/nschools09.xml Soaring school fees put private education out of reach for many] ] Most of the larger independent schools are either full or partial boarding schools.
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