Article 11: TIPS ON READING-UNDERSTANDING AND TRANSLATING ENGLISH

Abstract

1- READING AND UNDERSTANDING TIPS 1.1- Read all the text and try to understand the general context without using the dictionary. Avoid using dictionaries as much as possible. Reading becomes impractical if we consult the dictionary every time we find a word whose meaning is not clear. 1.2- Trust your intuition. There are many similar words between Portuguese and English. Make this resemblance work in your favor. Words like important, excelent, normal, manual, exam, doctor are words that we can deduce the meaning due to similarity. These words are called cognates. But we have to be careful with false cognates because they are false friends. Examples: intend (pretend), push (push), and current (actual).

Author's biography
He has a degree in Translation from the University of Brasí­lia (1988), a degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Brasilia (1987), two postgraduate degrees at the University of Brasilia: Distance Education (2008) and Continuing and Distance Education (2012) and an MA in International Education at Framingham State College (2005). She is currently an English teacher - UnB Idiomas and IESB. She has experience in the area of "‹"‹English language teaching, training of English teachers, supervision, coordination of academic direction of English course, mainly working on the following theme: academic English, publications area and lecture at the 32nd Book Fair in Brasilia ( 2016)