Last task

Hi, folks!

Finally our last task! I hope you are not so tired.

I agree with you Juliana, I also think that the best translation for "insurance money" is "dinheiro do seguro". What about the others? Do you agree with us?

So, just to check our choice. There is a very interesting tool on the web called "Google fight". If you are in doubt about which expression is more frequent in English, you just type the two "words" or "expressions" and as a result you get which one is the winner, which is more frequent at the web.

Let's try it. Enter the website Google Fight:

http://www.googlefight.com/#

and check which is the winner: "insurance premium” X insurance prize”

There is another thing I want you to answer to me: How did you enjoy our experience of using the corpora and the web to help us in the translation task?
Did the results surprise you somehow? Would you use these resources for now on when you need to translate a text? Which task did you like the most?

That's it, thanks for your help.

Teacher Lilian.

ps. I am still waiting for your comments about the videos.

FORTH TASK

Here we go!

Juliana, I really liked your comments. I agree with you, "insurance money" stands for "dinheiro do seguro" and "insurance premium" stands for "prêmio do seguro".

I just have some doubt, does the expression "insurance prize" exist?
How will we discover that? Well, let's go to Google again.
Another point is that, you saw that at Cobuild, they only show you part of the corpus, until 40 lines, so it's difficult to state the frequency of the two expressions, so Google will help us with this matter too.

1 - Enter Google website.
2 - Search for "insurance money"
3 - Search for "insurance premium"
4 - Search for "insurance prize"
5 - Answer:
a) How many results do you have for each search? Comment some sentences in order to check what Juliana said according to Cobuild results.
b) Does the expression "insurance prize" exist? What's the meaning of it?
c) Which is the best translation for "insurance money" found in the article about New Orleans?

That's it.
I hope we will be very happy and healthy in 2008 and that we will learn a lot of new things.
See ya.

Still on the third task!

Well guys! I think the task was a kind of complicated, wasn't it?
So I will try to help you in order to make things clear.

The main concern of is task is to answer the questions:
Is there a more specialized term similar to "prêmio do seguro" in English? What would you suggest?

We agreed that "prêmio do seguro" is used in technical texts while "dinheiro do seguro" is more general. So do we have two expressions like these in English?

You will answer to these question doing the following search:
1 - Enter the Cobuild Website - http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx
It is a corpus with lots of texts in English.
2 - Search for insurance+money - when we look for two words here we use plus +
Type it in the space: "Type in your query" and click at "show concs".
3 - Search for insurance+prize.
4 - Search for insurance+premium.

Answer:
a) What are the uses for "insurance money" in English? You can post some examples and comment on them.
b) According to your search results, is there a specialized term in English? (insurance prize or insurance premium)
c) What is the difference between "insurance money" and "insurance premium"?
d) Which other search would you suggest?

See you around.

THIRD TASK

Hello!

Well, I think the girls who answered the previous task got really interesting answers.
In sum, "prêmio do seguro" is a specialized term.
We know that there's the expression "insurance money" in English, since we saw it in the text about Katrina, right?
But is there a more specialized term similar to "prêmio do seguro" in English? What would you suggest?
That's what we will try to answer in this task. Just to remind you, Jaque, we are trying to get to best translation for "insurance money" found in the text we were discussing, the one about New Orleans, do u remember?

OK, that's what you have to do:
1 - Enter the Cobuild Website - http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx
It is a corpus with lots of texts in English.
2 - Search for insurance+money - when we look for two words here we use plus +
Type it in the space: "Type in your query" and click at "show concs".
3 - Search for another expression, a more specialized one in English, similar to "prêmio do seguro" . For example, how do you say "prêmio" in English?
4 - Search only for "insurance" in order to check if there is another expression similar to "prêmio do seguro", ok?

Answer:
a) What are the uses for "insurance money" in English? You can post some examples and comment on them.
b) According to your search results, is there a specialized term in English?
c) What is the difference between the options you have in English for "prêmio/dinheiro do seguro"?
d) Which other search would you suggest?

See you around.