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Objetivos�AIMS OF THE SESSION

Estrategias, consejos y práctica para ayudarte a mejorar tus habilidades de traducción.

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Strategies, tips and practice

to help you improving your translation skills

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Which strategies could you use to tackle this task?

Read the all text. What is the general meaning?
Spot the verbs and circle them. What tense are they in? look at time indicators – e.g. Last year. Who is talking? (I, you? He/she? Remember that the verb must agree with the subject)
KNOW YOUR TENSES! If you need help revise, check the verb revision session here Grammar: Speedy Verb Revision | e-sgol
Take notes above the text to jot down your translation draft write all the words you know and try to stretch the ones you don’t know. Could you think of synonyms in English to help you finding an alternative word?
Now start your translation. ONE SENTENCE AT THE TIME.
Check your work! Pretend to be an examiner! Get 3 colours highlighters: highlight in green all words you know, yellow, the ones you “kind of” know, pink the ones you are unsure about. Did you translate every word? Try to not leave gaps but instead try to convey the meaning using alternative words.

Which strategies could you use to tackle this task?

Read the all text. What is the general meaning?
Spot the verbs and circle them. What tense are they in? look at time indicators – e.g. Yesterday. Who is talking? (I, you? He/she? Remember that the verb must agree with the subject)
KNOW YOUR TENSES! If you need help revise, check the verb revision session here Grammar: Speedy Verb Revision | e-sgol
Take notes above the text to jot down your translation draft write all the words you know and try to stretch the ones you don’t know. Could you think of synonyms in English to help you finding an alternative word?
Now start your translation. ONE SENTENCE AT THE TIME.
Check your work! Pretend to be an examiner! Get 3 colours highlighters: highlight in green all words you know, yellow, the ones you “kind of” know, pink the ones you are unsure about. Did you translate every word? Try to not leave gaps but instead try to convey the meaning using alternative words.