Semester Assignment

1. Read closely the following text and translate it into Romanian.

2. Identify the type of the text as related to the communicative intention of the ST and
TT message and provide arguments to support your choice (80 – 100 words).

‘The beginning of normality’: Algarve welcomes back British tourists

Unemployment rose by 70% in the past year in the Portuguese region most reliant on tourism,
so locals are delighted to see Kevin Rushby and today’s other arrivals
An Algarve tourism authority worker hands out welcome safety kits to passengers from
the UK arriving at Faro airport on Monday. Photograph: Ana Brigida/AP
The mood at Faro airport was buoyant. Camera operators and photographers jostled to take
pictures of smiling tourists, perhaps not as many as hoped, for but more are on the way. João
Fernandes, head of the Algarve tourism board, was there, too, greeting arrivals while his staff
handed out face masks, hand gel and sprigs of lavender.
“I feel good,” said Fernandes. “The British tourists are a very big part of our economy. In 2018
half of the passengers coming through this airport were from the UK. They stayed for six million
overnights out of a total of 16 million for international visitors. And on our golf courses, 83% of
visitors were British or Irish.”
Figures from Abta, the UK Travel Association, give the economic value of British
tourism to the whole of Portugal in 2018 as half a billion pounds, but the Algarve is particularly
reliant on tourism and for that reason the economic effects of the pandemic have been tough:
unemployment has increased by 70% in the past year. In this seasonal economy, many workers
simply stayed at home and waited for the long winter to come to an end.
Pedro Pires, a cashier in the Travellers Rest bar-restaurant outside the airport, shook his
head remembering the six months that he went without work. “Everything just stopped quite
suddenly,” he said, pointing towards the main exit of the airport. “There was nobody coming out
that door.” Eventually the bar closed for six months and all he had to survive on was a
government subsidy of €650 a month. “It was very difficult,” he said. “It was not enough. We
haven’t bought anything new: no shoes or clothes. I’ve been mending my T-shirts!”
Pires’ friends were forced to move house, sharing accommodation and visiting food banks in
order to survive. His co-worker Layara Matias had an even harder experience: “I went back to
my home town of Belém in Brazil just before the pandemic, only to visit my family for a few
days, but I got trapped there for five months.”
In that time her entire family caught Covid. “But thank God we all survived,” she said.
When she finally got back home to Portugal, she discovered friends from outside countries had
been forced to leave. “It’s a pity, but we have lost touch with many people.”
I asked Matias if there were any benefits to the pandemic. She shrugged. “The only good
thing was spending more time with my family.”….
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/algarve

Grade score
• 5 points – task 1 text translation – individual solution – no
machine translation accepted (no Google Translate version)
• 2 points – task 1: appropriate target text formatting
• 3 points – complete individual argumentation for task 2
• previous seminar tasks and interactive online participation will
be taken into consideration for the final grade