Around the world

Starting at one of the ___ poles, the Sandman and Suzanne fly all around the world in ___ lightning galloping leaps, over cities, little harbor towns, villages -in fact, they pass over every place in the world in all weather: snow, freezing cold, tropical heat, thunder and rain.

They even visit the most (1) ___________ farmhouses. Of course, as he goes by the Sandman also includes the animals outside the house, although rabbits and hares - being ___ nocturnal animals - will stay awake ___ until the dawn.

The Sandman ___ takes this into account and gives them (2) ________-action sand. His leather bag has a special ___ compartment for nocturnal animal sand.
Once inside the house he throws sand in each person's eyes in one shot, taking care, of course, that the ___ delaying factor in each grain is suited, to (3) _____________ bedtimes. This is something that the Sandman has to work out ___ on the spot. Of course, it can be done at the speed of thought as well, but when you consider that the job ___ occupies him for a full twelve hours, it's ___ quite a task!

The animals on the farm are also given a ___ dose of sand -the Sandman never discriminates. Everyone ___ counts the same as far as he is concerned -whether it's a cow, a horse, clucking hens, or a ___ plain, ordinary rat or a princess or ___ (4) __________ in jail. And all this time he and Suzanne are (5) ____________: a, because they move so fast, b, so as not to startle people this is because he and Suzanne can go straight through walls and often catch people in private.

When he visits the United States, the Sandman doesn’t forget the seagulls flying around the Statue of Liberty.
It ___ makes no (6) _____________ which country he is in, either: eight hours later he is in Moscow, flying over Red Square ___ with impunity to visit the pigeons on Saint Basil’s Cathedral-and without getting the entire Russian air defense service into a flurry. If he did not visit them, how ___ in the world would the poor Russians ever get to sleep?
The Sandman shoots across the whole world. He can fly from Paraguay to a pretty English village ___ in no time and to the Alps and on to North America then to a mother and child in the ___ torrid heat of the Sahel and another mother and child on a (7) ____________ night above the Arctic Circle.
Every night the Sandman has problems to deal with. ___ For instance, he has to provide sand to all the ships at sea, and they are never in the same place two nights (8) ____________.
Some captains only offer half a target, and the eyes of a ___ junk skipper are not exactly easy to ___ aim at either!

1) Isolation
2) Delay
3) Individuality
4) Prison
5) Visual
6) Differentiate
7) Snow
8) Run

a) Büntetlenül
b) Börtönben
c) Egyáltalán
d) Példának okáért
e) Számításba veszi
f) Perzselő hőség
g) Villámgyors vágta
h) Éjszakai állat
i) Rekesz
j) Ott helyben
k) Célba venni
l) Leköti teljes fél napon át
m) Pirkadatig
n) Semmi perc alatt
o) Ez ám a feladat
p) Sima mezei
q) Adag
r) Késleltető tényező
s) Kínai halász
t) Egyenlő
u) Ugyanaz
v) Sarkvidék

A feladatok ismerősek, de van egy újítás, L1-wise - ami egy általam igen ritkán használt módszer, de azért néha előveszem. Ilyenkor a feladatból -általában kifejezésekre koncentrálva- megadok néhány információt magyarul, de sosem közvetlenül kapcsolva, hanem még mindig meghagyva a feladatot, hogy azért kelljen azzal dolgozni.

Most is ezt tettem, és persze ebben az a felhasználhatóság sokoldalúsága, hogy lehet fordítási készségeket is javíztani így: miért éppenígy került "magyarításra" az adott kifejezés, hogyan változtatta meg a közvetlen szövegkörnyezet az esetleges szótári alakot, stb. Természetesen sokkal egyszerűbb kifejezések is kiemelhetőek, hasonló módszerrel.

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