[B-Greek] How literal to render

R Yochanan Bitan Buth ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Thu Dec 2 05:45:11 EST 2004


EGRAPSA:
> If in a class, translate however the teacher wants it. Rule one is
finish and get the credit. (apparently, you do not have a teacher who
uses cloze-testing and other devices to avoid translation and let you
work within Greek.)>

HRWTHSE DE STEFANOS
>Randall, could you briefly explain cloze testing?>

META XARAS. Cloze testing involves filling in the blanks of a text
with the appropriate word. For beginning students a text of twenty
lines can be given that has maybe seven blank spots and 7 or 8
potential forms at the bottom of the page. The student chooses seven
from among these words and writes them into the correct spot. More
advanced quizzes would give vocab items as lexical forms that need
rewriting, or no suggestions at all. Teachers can also ask that
particular forms of the verbs or nouns be written out, in addition.
E.g., for nouns, write the genitive singular with its article, for
verbs write the aorist and continuative infinitive. Instructions can
be in the language, of course. 
In such a test the student must read and understand the sentences,
context and words, and one stays in the language itself.

I am attaching an example for Yona in Hebrew. Those with unicode fonts
should be able to read this below. (The text is Yona 1:1-6. The font
will revert to whatever is your 'default' unicode Hebrew in text mode.
If you have activated XP R2L language you can reformat to Narkis so
that the "o" vowels will position correctly.)

נא לבחור את המלה הטובה    (please choose the best word) 

ספר יונה פרק א 
וַיְהִי דְּבַר יהוה אֶל יוֹנָה בֶן אֲמִתַּי לֵאמֹר:
קוּם לֵךְ אֶל נִינְוֵה הָעִיר הַגְּדוֹלָה 
וּקְרָא עָלֶיהָ כִּי עָלְתָה רָעָתָם לְפָנָי:
_________ יוֹנָה לִבְרֹחַ תַּרְשִׁישָׁה מִלִּפְנֵי יהוה 
וַיֵּרֶד יָפוֹ 
__________ אֳנִיָּה בָּאָה תַרְשִׁישׁ 
וַיִּתֵּן  שְׂכָרָהּ וַיֵּרֶד בָּהּ 
	לָבוֹא עִמָּהֶם תַּרְשִׁישָׁה מִלִּפְנֵי יהוה:
ויהוה הֵטִיל רוּחַ גְּדוֹלָה אֶל הַיָּם 
וַיְהִי סַעַר גָּדוֹל בַּיָּם 
וְהָאֳנִיָּה __________ לְהִשָּׁבֵר:
__________ הַמַּלָּחִים 
וַיִּזְעֲקוּ אִישׁ אֶל אֱלֹהָיו 
__________ אֶת הַכֵּלִים אֲשֶׁר בָּאֳנִיָּה 
	אֶל הַיָּם לְהָקֵל מֵעֲלֵיהֶם 
וְיוֹנָה יָרַד אֶל יַרְכְּתֵי הַסְּפִינָה 
וַיִּשְׁכַּב __________:
__________ אֵלָיו רַב הַחֹבֵל וַיֹּאמֶר לוֹ 
	מַה לְּךָ נִרְדָּם
	קוּם קְרָא אֶל אֱלֹהֶיךָ אוּלַי יִתְעַשֵּׁת הָאֱלֹהִים לָנוּ
וְלֹא נֹאבֵד:


וַיִּקְרַב , חִשְּׁבָה ,  וַיָּטִלוּ ,  וַיָּקָם ,   וַיִּמְצָא ,
וַיֵּרָדַם ,  אָחוּס ,  וַיִּירְאוּ

ERRWSQE
Randall Buth


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