School of Education and Languages

French Department
Degree in Translation and Interpretation of Foreign Languages
English Translation course

Self-learning guide n° 1

Name:

María Alexandra Rivas Morales

Groupe: fourth year

Teacher: Lic. Marvin Rivera

May, 29, 2023

I.Global approach

The subject

Why everyone needs to see the Anne Frank House

The autho

Floris, auteur op ThingstodoinAmsterdam.com

The type of discourse

• Explanatory speech

• Descriptive text

The tone used

Informative tone

The register of the language

Standard register

The target audience

Students and tourists in general

The intention of the text (author's positioning)

The author’s intention is to describe this house museum as a tourist site and to
explain its history and origin.

2. Make a summary of the text

II. Non-linguistic knowledge

Unknown references

• Worldwide
• cumbersome

• passer-by

Ignored notions

• personal belongings

• Hiding

• Hence

• Emptied

• Furniture

• Request

• Traces

Technical terms

• Annex

• floors

• building

• workshop

• storage spac

• space for offices

• door

• entrance door

• steep staircase

• entrance

• ground floor

• first floor
Proper names

• Dutch

• Freddy Heineken

• Max Verstappen

• Marco van Basten

• Anne Frank

• German

• Amsterdam

• Netherlands

• England

• Ferrygogo

• Otto

• Margot

• 263 Prinsengracht

• World War II

• Jewish

Historical references

“This diary was written during World War II”

“In 1940 Anne Frank and her family, led by father Otto, took up residence in the
house that now serves as a tourist attraction.”

“It is 1942 and Margot, Anne’s sister, receives a call to work in a German camp. At
that moment the Frank family decides to go into hiding in the Secret Annex.”
Geographical references

“From Amsterdam Central it is very easy to reach the Anne Frank house by using
public transport”

“place that you must have visited during your one or more day trip through the
capital of the Netherlands.”

“For example, if you’re from England, you can use the ferry from Amsterdam to
England.”

“This way you will be in the Netherlands in a short period of time, you will have a
nice experience at sea and after arrival, you can easily reach Amsterdam by taxi”

Societal facts

“It is not for nothing that this story has reached the rest of the world, making the
Anne Frank House world famous.”

IV. Lexical exegesis: Interpret statements