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    This document provides a teaching guide for consecutive interpreting. It outlines exercises and techniques for students to practice selective listening, analyzing messages, memorizing or note-taking, and interpreting consecutively. Students learn to strip ideas from linguistic forms and express messages like a native speaker. Exercises include breathing, memory training, repeating short stories, and extemporaneous speeches on various topics. Note-taking techniques are also covered, along with introducing consecutive interpreting between English. The course materials cover political, technical, and business topics for students to research.

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    This document provides a teaching guide for consecutive interpreting. It outlines exercises and techniques for students to practice selective listening, analyzing messages, memorizing or note-taking, and interpreting consecutively. Students learn to strip ideas from linguistic forms and express messages like a native speaker. Exercises include breathing, memory training, repeating short stories, and extemporaneous speeches on various topics. Note-taking techniques are also covered, along with introducing consecutive interpreting between English. The course materials cover political, technical, and business topics for students to research.

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    Teaching Consecutive Interpreting

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    This document provides a teaching guide for consecutive interpreting. It outlines exercises and techniques for students to practice selective listening, analyzing messages, memorizing or note-taking, and interpreting consecutively. Students learn to strip ideas from linguistic forms and express messages like a native speaker. Exercises include breathing, memory training, repeating short stories, and extemporaneous speeches on various topics. Note-taking techniques are also covered, along with introducing consecutive interpreting between English. The course materials cover political, technical, and business topics for students to research.

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    ConsecutiveInterpretingTeachingGuide

    Theylearntoretainthemainideasinsteadoftheoriginalwords,ortheylearnhowtostrip
    theideasofallcumbersomelinguisticformsbeforeattemptingtoexpressthesesame
    ideasasanativeofthetargetlanguagewould.

    Studentslearnhowtoanalyzeamessagethatispresentedtothemorallyatincreasing
    speed,tostripthemessageofallsuperfluouslinguisticforms,andthentoexpressitin
    theirtargetinthesamewayasanativespeakerofthatlanguagewouldhavepresented
    thismessage.

    ConsecutiveInterpretingSkills:
    Hearing
    Listening:selectivelisteningisrequired.Thisconsistsofconcentratingonthemeaning
    andnotonthewordsofthespeakerandeliminatingfromthenextstagewhateveris
    necessarytothecompleterenditionofthespeechinthetargetlanguage.
    Analyzing:understandingallthedetailsofthespeechandmakingaconsciouschoice
    aboutwhattoconveytothetargetaudienceandinwhatway.
    memorizingand/ornotetaking:whatpartsofthespeechshewillmemorizeandwhat
    partsshewillhaveinhernotes.
    interpreting:

    EXERCISES
    BreathingExercises:
    MemoryTrainingExercises:Theyconcentrateontheessentialelementsofthe
    message.
    onestudenttellsashortstorythatisrepeatedintobyanotherstudent.
    DrReimaAlJarf

    Extemporaneousspeechesbystudents:(descriptionofhometown,technicalsubject,
    hobbies).
    ExercisesinparaphrasingandsubstitutingfirstintheSLtheninbothlanguages.They
    canbedoneeitherinwritingororally.Studentsgiveseveralversionsoftheoriginal
    presentationinordertoincreasetheirstylisticflexibility.

    Notetakingtechniques:
    studentstakenotesonwhattheyhaveheardbutonlyfrommemoryandonlyafter
    thespeakerhascompletelyfinished.
    studentstakenotesinthefirstlanguagethenintheTL.
    Thereisnouniversalnotetakingsystem.Studentsdeveloptheirindividualsystems.
    Studentsreadtheirnotes,startingwitheverywordorsymbolthattheyhaveonpaper.

    IntroductiontoConsecutiveInterpretinginEnglishEnglish.
    consecutiveinterpretationfromEnglishintoEnglishwithoutanynotes.
    studentsprovidesummariesfirstofsentencesandthenofwholeparagraphs.
    Studentsshouldbeexposedtodifferentpossibletranslationsandtohowtheworkof
    professionaltranslatorsevenbadexamples.

    CourseMaterial:
    formalspeechesofageneralpoliticalnature.
    technicalpapersreadinscientificconferences.
    technicaltopic
    multilateralnegotiations.
    extemporaneousspeeches
    commercialtopicscoveringsectorsofthebusinessworld
    Studentsresearchatopicbeforeeachsession.

    DrReimaAlJarf

    Week1:memorytrainingexercises
    Intensions
    sswereshy,hesitanttotalk,slow,theylackpriorknowledge,i.e.,couldnotgive
    examplesofrivers,oceans,doctors,bodysystemsandministries.
    shadowing(Arabicpassage)
    couldnotfollow.
    sentenceparaphrase.

    Week2ACTIVITIES:
    Organizepracticesessionsamongyourselvesbetweenclassestoimproveyourskills.

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