Which strategies could you use to tackle this task?
Read the all text. What is the general meaning?
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.
Spot the verbs and circle them. What tense are they in? look at time indicators – e.g. mañana! Who is talking? (I, you? He/she?)
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. Are they cognates? Semi-cognates? Can the context help you work out the meaning?
Now start your translation. ONE SENTENCE AT THE TIME.
Did you translate every word? Can you work out the meaning of unfamiliar words by e.g. creating a gap?�E,g, Mi major amigo es generoso My ________ friend ____ generous. Can you fill the gaps?
Read what you wrote: Does it make sense in English? Does it sound right?
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Read the all text. What is the general meaning?
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.
Spot the verbs and circle them. What tense are they in? look at time indicators – e.g. mañana! Who is talking? (I, you? He/she?)
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. Are they cognates? Semi-cognates? Can the context help you work out the meaning?
Now start your translation. ONE SENTENCE AT THE TIME.
Did you translate every word? Can you work out the meaning of unfamiliar words by e.g. creating a gap?�E,g, Mi major amigo es generoso My ________ friend ____ generous. Can you fill the gaps?
Read what you wrote: Does it make sense in English? Does it sound right?