[Shir0]

А вообще сегодня почти весенний день, и очень Depeche Mode настроение.

Я сегодня долго думала, какой кусок текста бы дать студентам в виде контрольной по пунктуации. В итоге, выдался кусок из "Молчания ягнят". Пришлось немного адаптировать, потому что они у меня тормознутые, лексика в оригинале чуть сложновата для них.

текст контрольной; было выдано без единого знака препинания

Dr. Lecter’s cell is well beyond the others, facing only a closet across the corridor, and it is unique in other ways. The front is a wall of bars, but within the bars, at a distance greater than the human reach, is a second barrier. […]
Dr. Hannibal Lecter himself lay on his bed, looking through the Italian edition of Vogue. He held the loose pages in his right hand and put them beside him one by one with his left. […]
Clarice Starling stopped a little distance from the bars, about the length of a small hall.
“Dr. Lecter.” Her voice sounded all right to her.
He looked up from his reading.
For a quick second she thought his gaze produced some kind of sound, but it was only her blood in her head that she heard.
“My name is Clarice Starling. May I talk with you?” One could notice the politeness in her distance and her tone.
Dr. Lecter considered, his finger pressed against his lips; then he rose and came forward. […] She could see that he was small, sleek; in his hands she saw strength like her own.
“Good morning,” he said, as though he had answered the door. His voice had a metallic harshness to it, possibly from disuse. […]
“Doctor, we have a hard problem in psychological profiling. I want to ask you for your help.”
“ ’We’ being Behavioral Science at Quantico. You’re one of Jack Crawford’s students, I expect.”
“I am, yes.”
“May I see your credentials?”
She hadn’t expected this. “I showed them at the… office.”
“You mean you showed them to Frederick Chilton, Ph.D.?”
“Yes.”
“Did you see his credentials?”
“No.”

Я еще и прикололась: "Кто первый угадает откуда текст, выдам приз."
Угадали.
В виде приза дала большой, красивый, желтый зажим для бумаги.

Рекомендовала читать и смотреть. Потому что им надо и я уверена, что понравится. А кому не понравится...

@темы: uni

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[ler.]

а как можно не понять что это из молчания ягнят, если доктор лектер прямым текстом?))

[Shir0]

ler., Ну это ж наши студенты... тормоза на 98%. Они много чего не знают. Ну как в том случае про Золушку.

[~[*(O.O)*]~]

You know, I am very skeptical when it comes to Moldovan students' vocabulary. Sometimes I think they operate on pure magic xD

How do you manage to make your students learn? Because I have a friend who is an English-Spanish major, and, well, I don't see her becoming a specialist any lifetime soon Tips? Tricks?

[Shir0]

~[*(O.O)*]~,

I am very skeptical when it comes to Moldovan students' vocabulary. Sometimes I think they operate on pure magic

Skeptical is the quite the right attitude, y'know. They do, they do.

How do you manage to make your students learn?

Dunno. I talk a lot, tell them a lot about how real it is to earn money knowing a language pretty well here, I try to motivate, explain, and such, tell them a zillion things they're gonna need in real life and when they get to work, eventually. And then those who are not hopeless realize they need to learn. That's like 1/4 of them, at best.

Because I have a friend who is an English-Spanish major, and, well, I don't see her becoming a specialist any lifetime soon

Is she a student in MD? Well, as I said, 3/4s of them are hopeless: they are in foreign lges by mistake, they can't learn, they don't wanna learn, or else. A thousand reasons not to be good. And not to want to make something decent out of themselves. Gah.

[~[*(O.O)*]~]

MD associates with Maryland. Could not understand at first, how would I have a friend who goes to school in MD XDD But, yes, she does go to school in Moldova. The State University one is her school. I think, she's a sophomore there.
To be honest, I was kind of hoping that one day your paths will cross. She is in need of a firm hand. I'd say she's also in a need of a person who speaks the language decently, but I don't know enough about her professors to just make the assumption that they suck.

From my ULIM experience, professors can suck xD

[Shir0]

ah I see. if she's available to talk, i could. could you tell me what her name is. i have a weird feeling i might know her, if you say english-spanish.
sorry for no capitalization in my writing, writing from my cell.

[~[*(O.O)*]~]

I wrote her a message to see if she might be willing to speak with a smart person for a change xD We'll see if she answers at all: she has a habit of avoiding knowledge in every form.

Needless to say, I am very impressed with the promptness of your answer and willingness to help. So very impressed!

[Shir0]

~[*(O.O)*]~,

Needless to say, I am very impressed with the promptness of your answer and willingness to help. So very impressed!

*crawls under bed* I basically am slow, yeah. Sorry, rly.
But I am willing to help, because people need to be helped if it is possible at all.

Yet, smth tells me that there's a 80% probability your friend is not going to be willing to speak

with a smart person for a change

. Especially if she's keen on avoiding knowledge.
But naaamez! I wantz namesss! Why do I think I might know her, why?

[~[*(O.O)*]~]

Oh, my dear Shiro! Promise me to not let her know I gave you her name! She is Ana Trosin. She is kind, and darling, and very very lazy. Poor child is absolutely certain I am the only person in her immediate circle who is better at English than her. But she is one of my closest friends. I feel that by going abroad, I kind of abandoned her in terms of caring for what is in her head.

Why do you think you are slow? That wasn't sarcasm! I AM actually very impressed!

Why do I think I might know her, why?

... because you most likely have 3/4 of those like her - lovely, lively, and lazy as fuck.

[Shir0]

~[*(O.O)*]~,
I promise you not to tell her you gave me her name. I know her perfectly well, heh. Second year, 282L group, a HELL of a lazy ass group. Ana was one of the tiny sparkles of hope down there, but yes, she is a HUGE lazy ass. She is fond of anime and we even exchanged a couple of grins referring to slash/yaoi stuff. Aww, didn't I tell you I felt I knew her.
The problem is that she is in an extremely slow, unmotivated, don't-give-the-slightest-fuck group. But I saw her work pretty well when she did come to my lexicology/stylistics seminars. Better than 9/10 of the group. But yeah, she does need work.
Well, perhaps you might try and insist, and persuade her to talk to me. Though, knowing that you refer to me, she might not. Don't know really. I know how "much" their group likes me. They (+a good deal of the entire 2nd year) are sure I am a self-righteous, evil bitch, whose only pleasure is to make them work and suffer. And they are so right about everything, except the suffering thing.

But she's not yet hopeless, that I can see.

Thanks for telling me. Again, perhaps she'll be smart enough to listen to you.

Why do you think you are slow? That wasn't sarcasm! I AM actually very impressed!

Oh, I just know that I am a huge procrastinator and horrible time manager, that's why I readily confess that I am slow quite often. But thank you for that NOT being sarcasm. Then that makes me really glad!

[~[*(O.O)*]~]

My dear Shiro, as this is getting very personal, I am jumping into u-mail space.