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After class activities

I. Supplementary Exercises

Task I

Simulation Exercises

Divide the students into several groups, ask them to role-play the following situations. They can make dialogues or speeches according to the words and expressions they have learned in the language bank acting as the Chinese speaker, English speaker and the interpreter respectively. One group will be invited to perform in class. Task 2 Vocabulary Development

Ask the students to read the following words and expressions about business travel. Try to keep them in mind so that they can put them to use in the simulation situations. Make some explanations where necessary. And ask them to find more to enrich the language bank. Task 3 Cultural Salon

Ask the students to read the following presentation and try to get some cultural knowledge about travel arrangements. And make a group discussion about it. Make certain explanations where necessary.

Task 4 Interpreting Practice

Ask the students to work on the following sentences and text D. Interpret them into Chinese and English respectively. Then present the reference key to help them to check the answers. A. Sentence Interpreting B. Text Interpreting—Text D

II. Self-assessment

After the students have completed all the tasks in this unit, ask them to finish the following

assessment form by themselves. This form contains some key points of interpretation skills, words and expressions, cultural background knowledge and the performance they have given. The teacher may give the reference answers to each element they have learned during this unit where necessary.

Student Self-assessment Form

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