Шесть студентов и студенток из разных стран мира – что у них общего? Все они приехали в американский университет по обмену на один семестр. Они будут изучать английский язык, культуру США, будут специализироваться в своей области. Эта серия Ежедневных диалогов посвящена жизни студентов в течение семестра в американском вузе. Диалоги рассчитаны на владеющих английским языком на среднем или более высоком уровне.
Студенты Люсия, Яна и Ли беседуют о культуре и о традиционных ремеслах.
Lucía: Why do you have this misshapen vase, Jana?
Jana: That’s the first vase I made in my glassblowing class.
Lee: You’re taking a glassblowing class?
Jana: Not for credit. I’m taking it because I’m interested in culture and traditional crafts. Maybe my dad is rubbing off on me after all.
Lee: Your dad?
Lucía: Jana’s dad is an anthropologist.
Lee: Oh, cool. And glassblowing is a traditional craft?
Jana: It is in many countries, including the U.S. It was one of the first crafts brought here. I like to think I am helping to preserve the cultural heritage of the country. And I study traditional crafts of my own country too, of course.
Lucía: That’s really cool. This vase seems much more beautiful now.
Lee: I think it’s fantastic. I have never learned a traditional craft.
Jana: You should try! You could always come to my glassblowing class.
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Something that is misshapen has a shape that is not normal. [Бесформенный, неказистый.]
A vase is a container that is used to hold flowers. [Ваза.]
Glassblowing is the art of forming hot glass into shapes by blowing air into the glass through a special tube. [Стеклодувное искусство.]
Credit is a unit that measures a student’s progress toward earning a college or university degree. It is the value that a college or university course contributes to the completion of the degree. [Кредит, зачетная единица в вузе.]
Traditional crafts: art, furniture, pottery, etc., that is skillfully made by hand in traditional ways. [Традиционные ремесла.]
When someone rubs off on you, it means that your actions or thinking have become like his/hers. [Заразить, увлечь чем-л.]
An anthropologist is a person who studies cultures, customs, societies and the human race. [Антрополог.]
To preserve something means to keep it as it is, especially to protect it. [Сохранить.]
Cultural heritage is the collective physical artifacts and traditions of a society that are passed from one generation to the next. An artifact is an object (such as a tool or ornament) that was made and used by people in the past and that often is interesting because of its historical or cultural meaning. [Культурное наследие.]
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Ежедневные диалоги разработаны старшим сотрудником отдела программ английского языка Хейди Холланд (Бюро по делам образования и культуры Государственного департамента США).
