Introduction of the new Club members started the session. The topic of the discussion was connected to the date April, 15 – the Tax day in the USA. A slide show with facts about US tax system was presented to the audience.
The Tax Day discussion turned out to be rather educational to all participants. We learned English terms for taxes used in all countries. Several club members work in the finance field, they tried to compare US and Ukraine tax systems.The Speaker of this meeting Tamara Gavryliuk was successfully monitoring the discussion. She presented the quotes of famous people about taxes for consideration. Each participant had to translate a quote and comment it. Some difficult quotes needed team work to be translated properly. Sometimes, original irony or sarcasm were lost in translation. This type of activity illustrated the difficulties of the translator’s work.
Number of the visitors – 23 (the English language teachers –1, specialists – 13, retired – 3,
students – 5, librarian –1)
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