The Director: I am sure you won’t have it.
The Ambassador of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria: Allow me, sir, on behalf of the diplomatic corps and on my own behalf to express genuine satisfaction with the results of our visit to the Centre. We wish the staff of the Centre further success for the benefit of mankind. Thank you.
The Director: Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. The pleasure is ours.
Good-bye.
The guests: Good-bye.
WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS YOU MAY NEED:
money is raised деньги собраны
voluntary work добровольный труд
cardiovascular diseases сердечно-сосудистые заболевания
disease prevention предупреждение болезней
to share rich (positive) experience делиться богатым (положительным) опытом
a spectacular exampleзд. наглядный пример
genuine satisfaction искреннее удовлетворение
Interpretation dialogue. Working in pairs, read the following conversations:
Two young diplomats, Soviet and American, both members of their respective delegations to the General Assembly of the United Nations, meet in the lobby of the U.N. Secretariat in New York. Among other questions, they talk about the foreign services of their countries and prominent Soviet and American diplomats.
Mr Briggs: So you’ve crossed the Atlantic to come to New York again, Mr Artov.
Mr Artov: Yes, I have. Among other things separating us is the Atlantic Ocean. You’re lucky, Briggs. It takes you only two hours to get to New York, whereas I have to fly here for more than fifteen hours.
Mr Briggs: You can afford it once a year. I wish I could travel to Moscow at my government’s expense.
Mr Artov: Who heads the American delegation at this G.A.?
Mr Briggs: This time it is a lady, an old friend of the President.
Mr Artov: Democrat or Republican?
Mr Briggs: Republican, of course. She is a professional diplomat. Do you have women-diplomat in your foreign service?
Mr Artov: Yes, we have. A woman-diplomat once headed our UN mission to the Geneva headquarters.
Mr Briggs: Are there any women-ambassadors?
Mr Artov: Not now. Prior and during the war Mrs Alexandra Kollontay was our ambassador in Sweden.
Mr Briggs: This is very interesting. Tell me about her.
Mr Artov: Mrs Kollontay was the first woman to become an accredited diplomat to a foreign country.
Mr Briggs: I guess she was a contemporary of Lenin?
Mr Artov: Yes, she was. Kollontay was an active revolutionary in tzarist Russia.
Mr Briggs: Did she take part in any international conferences?
