Bellingham: guilty or innocent?

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Google Translate has added 24 languages to its translation service, bringing the total number to 133. For many of us, Translate is an indispensable tool. It provides a convenient, accurate and quick way of comprehending vocabulary and texts in other languages. The 24 new languages are spoken by more than 300 million people worldwide. Among them are the indigenous Aymara, Guarani and Quechua languages of the Americas. Google rolled out its first translation service in 2006 and has continually added to its repository. Google said it still has a way to go to be more comprehensive. There are around 7,000 languages worldwide that Translate doesn't provide support for.

Translate needs to analyze a large range of linguistic data to be able to support a language. Isaac Caswell, a Google Translate scientist, told journalists about how advances in technology have facilitated adding the new languages. He said: "Up until a couple of years ago, it simply was not technologically possible to add languages like these, which are what we call a low resource – meaning that there are not very many text resources out there for them." He explained that Google aspires to support languages used by large populations. One of these is Lingala, spoken by 45 million people across Central Africa. It also wants to provide assistance for indigenous languages that are often overlooked by technology. And on the topic of things being lost in translation, an unexpected debate about translation and cultural interpretations of English profanity has ignited in Spain after Real Madrid midfielder Jude Bellingham was sent off for verbally abusing a referee .

Monday's mainstream TV shows, radio phone-ins and the front pages of newspapers and major websites wrestled with the concept of Bellingham's novel defence that he did not shout "fuck you" at the official, but merely "fuck off".

Bellingham, 21, was shown a red card in the 1-1 draw  at Osasuna in LaLiga as referee Jose Munuera Montero believed the England forward directed the foul language at him. However, Bellingham and his coach Carlo Ancelotti said the official was mistaken.

"I'm an English player and when I speak on the pitch it's normal that I use expressions that come naturally to me in English," Bellingham told reporters on Saturday.

"There was no insult, you can see in the video right away, it was an expression to myself, I'm not even directing myself towards the referee. But obviously there was a misunderstanding. He's believed I've said it to him.

"I've seen the video and it doesn't match the referee´s  report. I hope that the footage will be reviewed and see that it's not the same as the report."

Ancelotti, who managed in England with Chelsea and Everton, backed his player's defence. "I think the referee misunderstood Bellingham's English. The translation is not the same and I don't think it's offensive at all," he said.

"The red card comes out of the referee's nervousness. Bellingham has done nothing to be sent off. Absolutely nothing."

In the Premier League, players routinely use strong language when decisions go against them, and punishments are uncommon.

Barcelona manager Hansi Flick took a different view when asked about the incident: "It is a lack of respect in any situation," said the German.

The forward could be facing a four to 12-game ban for "insulting, offending, or addressing the main referee, assistants, fourth official, directors, or sports authorities in offensive terms or attitudes".

Bellingham added: "What you have to understand is that there is a lot of emotion on the pitch and these details can cost you games.

"That emotion may not give the best of you, but I don't think that's the case, I've been calm and you can see it with lip reading, it's not what it says on the record. I'm calm, because I know I've only said an expression to myself that I've said since I was 16 or 17 years old."

While many observers will be bemused by Bellingham's defence, the player can point to a recent case that could work in his favour.

Last season, Getafe successfully overturned English striker Mason Greenwood's sending off in a match against Rayo Vallecano for an almost identical misunderstanding.

1. ONE LANGUAGE: Students A strongly believe there should be one world language; Students B strongly believe this is a bad idea. Explain.

2. ANGRY: Which one of these things make you angry? Tell us why ?

	Why does it make you angry?	How do you react to it ?
1.When Madrid wins
2.When tourists flood your city
3.When you are interrupted/ ignored/talked over
4.Traffic
5.Tardiness
6.Telemarketers 7.Unsolicited advice 8.Something not on the list

 3. What are the best phrases to use to express the following:

-Surpise:

-Something incredulous:

-A beautiful painting or scenery:

-Apology for being late :

 -An amazing weekend : 

-The relief you feel because it´s Friday : 

-When something is beneficial but can also be harmful : 

- When the times has passed quickly: 

4.Vocabulary

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1.	indispensable	a.	Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.
2.	convenient	b.	Providing a faithful representation of something.
3.	accurate	c.	Involving little trouble or effort.
4.	comprehending	d.	Started to introduce something new.
5.	indigenous	e.	Absolutely necessary.
6.	repository	f.	Grasping mentally; understanding.
7.	rolled out	g.	A place where things are stored.

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8.	range	h.	Made an action or process easy or easier.
9.	linguistic	i.	Failed to notice.
10.	advance	j.	Direct one's hopes or ambitions towards achieving something.
11.	facilitated	k.	Relating to language.
12.	aspire	l.	Provide or give a service, help, etc.
13.	render	m.	The area covered by or included in something.
14.	overlooked	n.	A development or improvement.

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15.	bemused	a.	a type of language that includes dirty words
16.	novel	b.	struggle with a difficulty or problem.
17.	profanity	c.	abolish, invalidate, or reverse a previous system, decision, situation
18.	report	d.	interestingly new or unusual.
19.	footage	e.	film or videotape that shows a single event or place
20.	wrestled	f.	something that can be confusing and with a bit of irony
21.	overturned	g.	an account given of a particular matter, especially in the form of an official document, after thorough investigation or consideration by an appointed person or body.

5. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.

1. indispensable
2. indigenous
3. rolled out
4. comprehensive
5. support
6. analyze
7. facilitated
8. aspires
9. overlooked
10. sent off 
11. merely
12. backed
13. pitch
14. mainstream
15. foul language
16. draw

1. examine
2. made it possible
3. assistance
4. native
5. missed
6. launched
7. complete
8. aims
9. essential
10. conventional
11. field
12. banish
13. vulgarity
14. only
15. tie
16. supported / got behind

6.Team A believes Bellingham is innocent.Team B believes Bellingham is guilty.Discuss! 

7.Role play: Choose one of these options as the best way to blow off some steam when you´re angry 

Role  A – Yell

Role  B – Throw a bunch of pillows

Role  C – Eat Ice Cream

Role  D –  Put loud music Role E - Curl up in a ball on your couch Role F - Angry clean something Role G- Heckle the TV Role H - Troll people online  Role I - Something not on the list  8. Fill In The Blanks: 1. If you are angry with something, you are ¨up in                  ¨. 2. If you were close with someone and had a fight and stopped talking, you had a                          . 3. If your neighbours are always loud and making noise, especially at night when you trying to sleep,  you are very                   with the situation. 4. What is the type of anger someone feels when they are stuck in traffic ? 5. If you are in your car and the person in front of you is driving very slow, then you decide to             your horn so the car in front drives faster or moves for you.  6. If you hate when people are late, then being late for you is                            . 7. Last year when Madrid won the Champions League, you were very angry. You could say:  ¨I saw             ¨. 8. The day I prepared this lesson, Thursday February 27, Barca and Madrid were both on top of La Liga table with 54 points. They were both                 with 54 points . 9. If you think Bellingham is trying to escape punishment for his actions, then he is trying to                                                          . 10. If you think the ref is makig a big deal about the situation, then he is                               OR  he is                     the situation out of proportion.  11. If Bellingham must pay a fee as a punishment for his actions, then he must pay a                   . 12. Real Madrid is Barcelona´s                        . 13. If this season, Barcelona wins La Liga and Madrid is number 2, then Madrid is the                                 . 14. While the city of Barcelona has 2 teams in La Liga, Espanyol is often                           by Barca, since Barca gets most of the attention. 15. Last year, the football team of Girona was seen as a young team that had potential to become great in the future. They were seen as an                           team. 16. Deportivo de La Coruña however, was a team that was very strong in the past but now are considered to be quite weak. They are considered to be a                        . 17. If you do not agree with someone, then you do not see                                          . 18. If you are arguing with someone and then decide not to let it escalate, what can you tell the person? 19. If you want to be very polite with a person and you want to disagree with them, you can tell them : I                             disagree. 20. If you are trying to schedule a meeting with someone, and you would like to meet at 9 and the other person would like to meet at 10, you both decide that the fair solution is to meet at 9:30.  You have both reached a                         .  (Hint: False friend of the word commitment in Spanish)

9.Discussion  

1. What do you think of Google Translate?
2. How often do you need to translate things?
3. Do you ever translate things into English?
4. How many languages do you know?
5. How difficult is it to learn a new language?
6. Are translations of vocabulary always accurate?
7. What do you think of the idea of having one global language?
8. How important is your language to you?

11. How good do you think Google Translate is?
12. Would you be a good translator?
13. How important is it to protect indigenous languages?
14. What new languages would you like to learn?
15. What would life be like if all language was translated immediately?
16. What will Google Translate be like in 20 years from now?
17. What questions would you like to ask Google?
18. Is Bellingham guilty or innocent? Do you think the referee overreacted?