WS 2011/2012                              exam translation  (advanced)                             text  #2

1) notion
2) bias/biased
3) elevation/to elevate/elevator AmE ↔ lift BrE/elevated railway etc.
4) perpetuation/to perpetuate
5) leisured elite
6) gentility
7) blight/blighted                                                                                                                 But: plight
8) genesis
9) accommodation (!)/to accommodate (!)
10) in the period
11) implicit assumption
12) professional class: “profession”
13) Civil Service: Home and Indian, civil servant
14) the overhaul/to overhaul
15) public school (AGAIN!)
16) geared to
17) appeal (noun)
18) to attain/attainability                                                              IMPROVE YOUR WORD POWER:
19) to transcend                                                                        penetrant: penetrating, pungent, overpowering
20) penetration/to penetrate                                                      aufdringlich: obtrusive, insistent, pushing, pushy

      CARTOON: “Concept of the aristocrat” taken to its ludicrous extreme
Text 2: “…. The man of noble birth was a gentleman by right, as was the army officer, the member of Parliament. But between these and other time-honoured ranks, and those who aspired to the status lay the assumption that the importance of gentlemanliness transcended rank because it was a moral and not just a social category. This made it open to redefinition in a way that the concept of the aristocrat was not, …….”

VIDEO:  Some great Jeeves & Wooster links            CARTOONS: Lords & gentlemen
X sound: Noel Coward,The Stately Homes of England.mp3      text: The Stately Homes of England
X sound: Noel Coward,Mad Dogs and Englishmen.mp3      text:  Mad Dogs and Englishmen
P. G. Wodehouse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse    Noel Coward:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward   
plus: Monty Python, Upperclass Twit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSqkdcT25ss 

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