Revision exercises

a) Make an oral translation of the following (from, hea­ring).

1. The vote was heavy, with an unusual outpouring of wo­men and youth voters.

2. L., who announced his withdrawal from the Presidential race after the returns showed him a poor sixth, declined to state whom he would support.

3. The Black community showed a big turnout. The vote helped to elect a number of Black aldermen in the municipal election, which is held here at the same time as the presidential primaries.

4. The election headquarters duly noted that early returns favored A. but later and bigger vote counts swung it to J.

5. His vote was in fact smaller than that polled in Brook­lyn by the Democratic candidate for Governor in the last city election.

6. The candidate encouraged them to believe it in his acceptance speech.

7. There is actually no direct vote for the President or Vice-President in the USA.

8. The district of Columbia, where Washington is located, in 1964 for the first time received a presidential vote for three electoral seats.

9. Now it takes 270 electoral votes to win the pre­sidential race.

10. There was a heavy turnout of morning voters in Wa­shington, where residents of the District of Columbia were voting in a Presidential election for the first time. An 80 percent poll is likely.

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