BBC articles in English with Russian translation. Scientific journals in English

The English-language press is a great opportunity to improve your English skills. Today we will tell you in a short review what to read first and where in Moscow you can buy scientific journals in English

It is worth noting that you, of course, can start your search for English-language popular science magazines by exploring all the kiosks at hotels or immediately running to the British Council library, but we are ready to offer a simpler and more effective way: subscribe via the Internet.

Popular science magazines in English

National Geographic

Today the magazine has a circulation of more than 4 million copies, the magazine's audience is 40 million people. Unique materials on archeology, history and culture, exclusive photographs helped the magazine gain worldwide recognition. It is published in 33 languages ​​and is the world's most famous popular science magazine. You can subscribe.

It is also worth paying attention to two more English-language popular science magazines that have Russian-language versions. You can subscribe to original versions of magazines only on official websites, but finding electronic versions of publications is not difficult.

Popular Mechanics

The magazine began publishing in 1902, and has now gained popularity around the world as a classic example of a popular science magazine. More than a million circulation indicates the popularity of this magazine throughout the world.

Popular Science

The magazine, which has conquered 45 countries, is published in more than 30 languages. Darwin, Huxley, and Peirce published their papers and reviews of research in this journal. The magazine has not always enjoyed enormous popularity, but today it is one of the world's most famous popular science publications, its circulation is more than 1 million copies.

Have fun reading!

Here we have collected interesting articles in English. You can find out the translation by pointing at the English words.

Fast-food receipt leads to supersized fine for Thornlie man

A Thornlie man is probably not lovin" McDonald's after his fast-food splurge came back to bite him. Samuel Michael Gossage was found $10,000 after a fast food receipt was used to trace him and subsequently charge the 27-year-old with illegal dumping in a national park.

Air Canada flight finds stranded Australian yacht

They were ready to land in Australia, at the end of a 14-hour international flight, when the 270 passengers of an Air Canada flight were suddenly thrown into a high-seas search-and-rescue operation.

Trees recognize roe deer by saliva

Trees are able to distinguish whether one of their buds or shoots has been randomly torn off or has been eaten by a roe deer. In the case of roe deer browsing, they activate corresponding defense mechanisms. This is the result of a new study by biologists from the Leipzig University and the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) that has recently been published in the specialist journal Functional Ecology.

THE HUMAN BRAIN IN SPACE: EUPHORIA AND THE “OVERVIEW EFFECT” EXPERIENCED BY ASTRONAUTS

Could be the best example yet of being “spaced out”? When in space, astronauts have repeatedly reported inexplicable euphoria, a “cosmic connection” or an increased sensitivity to their place in the Universe.

The Peculiar Burial Rites of Tana Toraja

The picturesque mountainous region of South Sulawesi, in Indonesia, is home to an ethnic group called the Toraja. A large number of its members live in the regency of Tana Toraja or "the Land of Toraja" at the center of the island of Sulawesi, 300 km north of Makassar, the provincial capital of South Sulawesi.

Derinkuyu & The Underground Cities of Cappadocia

In 1963, a man in the Nevşehir Province of Turkey knocked down a wall of his home. Behind it, he discovered a mysterious room. The man continued digging and soon discovered an intricate tunnel system with additional cave-like rooms. What he had discovered was the ancient Derinkuyu underground city, part of the Cappadocia region in central Anatolia, Turkey.

Bill Murray drove a taxi while cabbie played sax

The Toronto Film Festival celebrated Friday Bill Murray Day, with a tribute to the star and free public screenings of “Ghostbusters” and “Groundhog Day.” And he lived up to his reputation at a packed Q&A with fans by giving a glimpse into the quirky mind of Murray.

Drums in communication

Developed and used by cultures living in forested areas, drums served as an early form of long-distance communication, and were used during ceremonial and religious functions.

Learning a foreign language (in our case, English) should a priori include familiarity with periodicals of the country whose language we are learning. This helps solve several problems:

• Firstly, English newspapers and magazines often provide much more “living” speech than fiction. Even if the publication belongs to the official category, this does not mean that the circulation in it is completely “refined”. Whatever your personal attitude towards newspapers and magazines, but with the fact that The media perfectly demonstrates the current state of the language, you can't argue with that.
• Secondly, keep in mind that you are getting new information from the original source. That is, the text that you see in front of you has not yet been touched by the hand of a translator, who is trying to adapt the original designs for the inexperienced Russian-speaking reader.
• Thirdly, keep in mind that if you read English newspapers and magazines in the original, you will be able to analyze the views of foreign journalists on world events, which will help you get closer to understanding the mentality of people speaking the language you are interested in.
• Fourth and finally, reading English-language media makes it possible to constantly replenish your knowledge.

Well, we hope we have convinced you of the need reading newspapers in English.

Popular English-language periodicals

This may surprise some, but not only in the UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia newspapers are published in English. You can find similar publications in Russia. Of course, there are fewer of them, and they are adapted for perception by our compatriots, so it is still preferable to use newspapers and magazines originating from abroad.

The British newspaper is one of the iconic periodicals. It has everything your heart desires - from domestic national events to a high-quality overview of events in the world. This publication is interesting because it is often presented using the famous subtle English humor. This detail adds a fair amount of zest to reading articles, but can make it difficult for beginners to understand the text.

- the American analogue of the publication we are considering above. If you are interested in financial news, business and politics, you are welcome, this newspaper is just for you. As for the vocabulary, this periodical will delight you with a typically American version of the English language in all its glory. However, the American desire to shorten grammatical structures can play a cruel joke on beginners: start reading The New York Times only after you begin to freely understand those parts of sentences that are deliberately omitted.

It will appeal to lovers of diverse topics - there is a place for both politics and more neutral issues (both purely British and international). With regard to linguistic expressions, we note that most of the sentences are common, that is, the reader will have the opportunity to focus on full-length rather than truncated structures.

is a British newspaper with a long history. By the way, this is one of the few publications that has retained its original poster size. As a source for learning English, The Daily Telegraph can offer a fairly wide range of topics - both serious political ones and more frivolous ones (for example, dedicated to pop culture). However, in both cases you have the opportunity to enjoy high-quality British “English”.

Another English newspaper that is replete with information of various kinds is. You will find here the latest news from politics, business, science, culture, art, technology, education, health care and so on. As for grammatical structures, there are both short sentences that are easy for a beginner to understand, as well as complex long structures that will require you to work hard to translate them.

We recommend it to those who like to read about political issues. The lion's share of information is national in nature, but much attention is also paid to world news. If you are just beginning your acquaintance with the English-language press, this publication should benefit you. First of all, this purpose is served by the direct order of words in grammatical constructions, as well as not too lengthy sentences in which there is no excess of introductory words.

Let's sum it up

Well, if you set out to become more familiar with English newspapers and magazines, it will be quite easy to do. There are many periodicals at your service, some of which are quite complex and also quite understandable even for a “green” beginner.

Read English-Russian articles and texts with a piece of paper or card, where you write down unfamiliar words and phrases with translation. You can write out entire sentences without translation to remember prepositions and word order.

Parallel texts (with translation in Russian) are especially useful for beginners; most importantly, do not rush to read the translation. Try to translate the paragraph in English to yourself before reading the paragraph in Russian.
At the bottom of each text there is a dictionary of the most difficult words with transcription.

Usually the English text is read first, understood or translated “to oneself”, then (if necessary) in Russian. But you can also read in Russian and think: how can this be translated into English? This might be more productive.

Do not read English text "diagonally"! Read it carefully, ask yourself questions: why is there a definite article here, and what does "s or "d" mean (He"s tall. He"s been to England. It"d be a pretty cold bastard.. (from memory from 007 )), why is there Present Participle and not Past Simple...

The main purpose of reading parallel texts is increase vocabulary and get used to reading English text, overcome the reaction to move their eyes somewhere if they saw words in a foreign language. Texts in English for beginners can be found by the labels "Easy" or "Medium".

NEWSPAPER - one day bestseller.
Valery Yants

Today we will talk about what kinds of newspapers are in English, why you need to read them, how to choose a newspaper in English, where you can find newspapers in English online, how often you need to read newspapers and at what level you can start reading newspapers in English.

We will answer all these questions.

Reading newspapers in English is undoubtedly useful and here's why:

• newspapers reflect modern spoken language
• it is a source of information about news in the world
• opportunity to gain knowledge in a specific area
• practical value - they can help you find a job, rent housing, etc. in the country where you are going/planning to immigrate

If you regularly read newspapers in English, you can very well improve your level and expand your vocabulary. In addition, you will notice that constructing sentences in English will be much easier if you remember constructions and phrases from newspapers. Your speech will become closer to native speakers, and not broken Russian-English, as happens with those who try to translate from Russian into English without reading authentic articles, but only substituting the first words they come across from the dictionary.

And for those who are going to take the international English exam (IELTS / TOEFL / FCE / CAE), the examiners especially recommend regular reading of newspapers in English, since articles are found in the Reading and Writing sections (Cambridge exams imply not only understanding, but also the ability to write articles ). Especially for preparing for the Academic Module.

What kinds of newspapers are there in English?

Newspapers in English can be divided into those published in Russia and abroad. Foreign newspapers in English are divided into newspapers written for native speakers and for those learning English as a second language (ESL learners). In turn, newspapers for native English speakers are divided into serious publications and those for the general reader.

Surprisingly, newspapers in English are also published in Russia, although they are few.

Foreign newspapers for native speakers. They are useful to read starting from the Upper-Intermediate level.

• - catalog of online newspapers sorted by country.

Other:

• - if you are interested in a specific state, then you can see the TOP 10 newspapers from that state.
• - the most popular news newspaper for children. Serious news is broken down in language that American children can understand. The articles are accompanied by exercises in .pdf format, often with pictures and maps, which will be of interest even to adults (learning English). The exercises are aimed at testing the acquired information.

Foreign newspapers for English learners.

First of all, those newspapers and websites that I would include in the “ gold list":

Now let's talk about other publications that are also worthy of attention:

1. - a site about sensational news from Sean Banville with numerous, but not interactive, exercises. Pros: The author of the site is a native speaker of British English, a teacher of English for foreigners, so the exercises are well thought out methodically. Minus - all the news was announced only by Sean Benville. Some of my students just don't like his pronunciation.
2. -news, especially for Upper-Intermediate and Advanced levels. The exercises are in the section to the right of the article (Resources - Student Worksheet). Typically these are just questions.
3. - news from Voice of America for learning English. Pros: all articles are accompanied by audio recordings of different speakers of American English; the speakers include both men and women. Minus - the announcers speak too slowly and drawn out, absolutely unnaturally. Suitable for Beginner and Elementary levels.
4. - very short articles for Beginner and Elementary levels. Cons: no exercises and voiced by only one speaker - Sam Margolis.

Russian newspapers:

Previously, in universities they were forced to read and translate Moscow News. This was usually explained by the fact that you need to know and be able to discuss the news happening in our country. Unfortunately, I still don’t see the benefit of reading texts from Russian newspapers, because they were written by Russians, although they speak English well, but are not native speakers.

Russian newspapers for English learners:

• - You can read examples of articles, after each there is a translation of complex words. It seemed to me that the articles were frivolous and “copied and pasted” from various sources.
• - This is a supplement to the newspaper “First of September”. It will be of interest only to secondary school teachers, since it contains articles by Russian teachers about open lessons, etc. Only some old articles are available online.

Conclusion: Read newspapers in English written by native speakers.

Students are often interested in how often they should read newspapers, how many articles per day or week. Today I decided to ask our teachers what they think about this.

Nadezhda: " The main thing is to have fun. There are people who love to read newspapers, and there are those for whom two texts a week is the limit of their patience. It seems to me that you can start at the Pre-Intermediate level" Nadezhda advises the site:

• - articles with consecutive translation into Russian and highlighted expressions.

Anna: " I think it depends on how interesting it is to the student. If you like it, then at least every day, if not, you don’t have to read it at all, or sometimes in order to familiarize yourself with newspaper vocabulary».

Aigul: " I think articles should be read depending on the purpose of language learning, starting, of course, from the appropriate level. For English language learners, it will be useful to regularly learn world news, news from show business, sports, and interesting discoveries of scientists from newspapers and magazines. And multilingual sites help us with this. For example, – there you can read the same articles in different languages».

I also communicated with our native teachers.

You can read the opinions of native English teachers by clicking on the following post:

Opinions from English speakers

The answer to that is dependent on their level. I have low-level students who find it too tremendously difficult so read only occasionally, and then I have high-level students who regularly turn to the NY Times for news. For a pre-int. student… maybe a short article every day or so (Michelle)

I would suggest each day if possible… and as many articles as they have time for starting from intermediate level. (Catherine)

There is no formula. I believe that the more a person reads, the better for him/her. It is important that a student does not read material that is either too easy or too difficult. Material that is too difficult may result in discouraging the student. material that is too easy will have little, if any, effect.

Motivation is also very important. Therefore, I always suggest that my students read about what interests them most. Advanced English learns should read longer articles and obviously ones that include more advanced vocabulary. Students should gradually increase “the bar”, that is go on to a slightly more difficult material once they realize that they have relatively few problems with the level they’re at. But - as I mentioned earlier - it really depends and there is no formula regarding how much is enough. The more the better. (Ewa)

I think that it depends on their level. For intermediate students an article can take a very long time, so they may only want to try one or two articles a week because it may take them the whole week to finish those. Avery advanced student may want to try to read the whole front page three or four times a week. (Erin)

I think they could start with short articles at intermediate level if their vocabulary is ok. I think they should read at least 3 a week. I think reading is very important for getting the feel of a language, as important as learning vocabulary. (Ann Mackay)

Well, I think they should read everyday. I don’t think there is a magic number of essays, but they should read a wide range of different articles from science to literature, etc. (Shelly)

No matter what the student’s level is, he/she should be able to find material appropriate to his/her level. Also, they should challenge themselves by reading something a little more difficult than their level but not so difficult that they’ll give up. (Shelly)

I would recommend daily for whatever level they are (Carmine)

I present to you a translation of their answers.

Michelle: " It all depends on the level. I have students who find it extremely difficult to read newspapers, so they do it occasionally. On the other hand, my high level students often read news from . As for Pre-intermediate students, 1 small article per day will probably be enough for them." Michelle also noted that the article should not contain more than 10 new words. If there are more, then you have taken an article that is too complex for you.

However, most of Michelle's students prefer watching news videos with English subtitles rather than reading them in newspapers. She provided a link to the site:

• - video in English with subtitles(you need to press “CC” which stands for closed-captioned) on a variety of topics.

Ewa: " There is no specific number of articles. I think the more a person reads, the better it is for him/her. It is important that the student does not read material that is too easy or too difficult. Motivation is also very important. Therefore, I always advise my students to read about what interests them. Advanced students should read longer articles with complex vocabulary. Students should gradually raise the bar by increasing the difficulty. But there is no specific figure for how much you need to read. The bigger, the better».

Erin: " I think it all depends on the level. For Intermediate level students, reading an article takes a lot of time, so one or two articles per week will be enough for them. Advanced students can read 4-5 newspaper pages».

Ann Mackay: " You can start with short articles at the Intermediate level if they have a rich vocabulary. You need to read at least 3 articles a week. I think reading is very important in order to learn to feel the language and learn new words».

Which English newspaper should I choose?

Read newspapers from the region that is of greatest interest to you. For example, if you are planning to immigrate to Australia, read Australian newspapers.

Read newspapers in the field that is related to your profession, hobby or interests.

Remember - the reading process should be enjoyable.