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ТЕМА 1. Lesson 1. Amory Lovins on winning the oil endgame. Part 1

Answer the following questions

1. What is simultaneous interpreting?

Practical task

Lesson 1. Amory Lovins on winning the oil endgame. Part 1. Exercise 1

1. Do exercise 1 from Lesson 1. Practise interpreting the speech simultaneously from English into
Ukrainian and vice versa.
2. Learn active vocabulary for the dictation.
3. Learn the suggested abstract by heart.

The old story about climate protection is that it's costly, or it would have been done already. So
government needs to make us do something painful to fix it. The new story about climate protection is that it's
not costly, but profitable. This was a simple sign error, because it's cheaper to save fuel than to buy fuel, as is
well known to companies that do it all the time -- for example, Dupont, SD micro electronics. Many other firms -
- IBM -- are reducing their energy intensity routinely six percent a year by fixing up their plants, and they get
their money back in two or three years. That's called a profit.

ТЕМА 2. Lesson 1. Amory Lovins on winning the oil endgame. Part 2

Answer the following questions

1. When and where was simultaneous interpretation first used?
2. When and where was simultaneous interpretation introduced to general public?

Practical task

Lesson 1. Amory Lovins on winning the oil endgame. Part 2. Exercise 2

1. Do exercise 2 from Lesson 1. Practise interpreting the speech simultaneously from English into
Ukrainian and vice versa.
2. Learn active vocabulary for the dictation.
3. Learn the suggested abstract by heart.

And it's funny – it feels a bit like this now for oil. We've been spending the last few decades
accumulating a very powerful backlog of technologies for saving and substituting for oil, and no one had
bothered to add them up before. So when we did, we found some very surprising things. Now, there are two big
reasons to be concerned about oil. Both national competitiveness and national security are at risk. On the
competitiveness front, we all know that Toyota has more market cap than the big three put together.

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