INTERPRETATION 2: PRE-COURSE TASKS
TASK 1: INDIVIDUAL WORK (30 minutes)
- Watch this video clip, particularly from 7minutes 55 seconds onwards:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FSx359FapzU
- Take notes on the skills and strategies mentioned in the video: active
listening, understanding, discourse analysis, public speaking,
reformulating, and avoid temptation of literal interpretation, abstracting,
summarizing, paraphrasing, anticipation.
- Reflection: Did you use these skills in Interpretation 1? If yes, how? If
no, why not?
TASK 2: GROUP WORK (30 minutes)
- Work in groups of three. Take turns and practise interpreting part of ONE
of the following:
“English Conversation 19”: https://youtu.be/ZmUm29fc6nI
or “A day around London”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihC-
1DJG7cw
Record your interpretation work in .mp3 or .mp4 format and upload onto
Google Drive / Youtube / so on, then paste the link onto a word file.
Entitle your file as Inter2 PreTask_Your name(s)
* The file will be uploaded onto the CST system when the class on CST is ready.