Introduction
Anwar Khalid,
In this web quest you are going to tackle and understand what is economic? why is translating economic text demanding? how to use dictionaries to translate economic? lastly, do economic text use metaphors?
you are going to translate an economic text after watching a video and you will be provided by a link for a website that it will help with your translation in different fields.
Break a leg!
Task
Translate the text below from ENGLISH to ARABIC
_ what you should do :
-Read the text more than one time
-Analyze the grammatical structure and search for any idiomatic word you might not know of each paragraph.
- When translating a headline to Arabic LG start with the Subject first
- When translating a paragraph to Arabic LG start with the main verb
- Put the source of the information at the beginning when translating to Arabic.
- Do not write the whole name of the subject or the source if it is repeated in all the paragraphs.
- Try to use cohesive devices to connect , to start or to sum up.
The text :
Jeff Bezos Sells About $1.8 Billion Worth of Amazon Shares in Three Days
On Wednesday evening, hours after the stock markets had closed, Amazon founder and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission that showed he had sold $1.8 billion worth of Amazon shares over the final three days of July. After taxes, he will net about $1.4 billion.
Bezos sold slightly more than 900,000 shares of Amazon between July 29 and July 31, when the e-commerce behemoth’s stock price was around $1,900 a share. He still retains his title of world’s richest person, now with a net worth that Forbes calculates at $116 billion, using Wednesday’s closing share price for Amazon. Of that, about $108 billion comes from the shares of Amazon he owns.
The new filings also show that Bezos has given his ex-wife, MacKenzie, 25% of his Amazon stake, or 19.7 million shares. Jeff Bezos will continue to exercise voting control over the shares of Amazon he transferred to his wife, according to an SEC filing in April. Her Amazon shares are worth nearly $36.8 billion, making her the third-richest woman in the world.
Process
If you find in somehow that it is still difficult for you to translate the text by using oxford dictionary, use the website below that will help you , but keep practicing on the oxford dictionary at least one hour.
1. use reverso context website
https://www.reverso.net/text-translation
2. to learn more about economic world, whey economic translation is demanding , and how to translate by using dictionaries . WATCH the video below which is done by the professor Alaa Abu Shamala.
Evaluation
Well done in advance.
your efforts will pay off at the end of our semester , I hop you have learnt how to translate such a text and learnt from the video about the economic world .
The Assessment criteria :
-your task will be given 15 points , and you will be given 4 days to submit the work
-(5) points will be taken for you in case of trying to use the oxford dictionary , with evidences by highlighting the words .
-(5)point if you tried to apply the instructions that given for you in the task correctly .
-(5) point will be taken for you in our lecture discussion , to show that you really understand at least the basic things of our task.
Best wishes for all you !