Direct And Indirect Speech Game Professional Legal Interpreter

Indirect speech, the report uses the same words of the speaker, whereas, in indirect speech, one does not use the speakers exact words.

Thomas said that he would go to school the the following year.

Writing And Literature: DirectIndirect Characterization Quiz.

You may either use the actual words spoken by Stalin or report in your own words what he said.

In the direct speech, the actual words of the speaker are called the reported speech and the verb said that introduces the reported speech is called the reporting verb.

In each group you have 1 interviewer, 1 celebrity and 1 interpreter.

Tell students that the interviewer and the celebrity dont speak the same language (in fact they do, everyone must speak English during the exercise).

The interviewer asks a question to the celebrity but for the celebrity to understand the question it must be translated into an indirect question by the interpreter.

The celebrity can then answer the question but the interpreter must report his her answer back to the interviewer in reported speech.

It can get a little complicated, and careful monitoring is required but students tend to enjoy focusing on the specific grammar point in use.

OR He said that he had been to a big boarding school in the English countryside.

There is a lot of pressure on the interpreter, theyre basically doing all the hard grammar work, so make sure you switch roles often.

Direct And Indirect Speech Game Professional Legal Interpreter

Now I see that your primary goal is to provide an interesting exercise for teaching English As a professional legal interpreter, I would like to point out that in my industry it is actually poor form to use the indirect constructions you are recommending here.

As professional interpreters we are tasked with making as few changes as possible to what is said, and must repeat questions and responses in the exact grammatical form in which they are given.

However, there are quite a few untrained, semi-professionals who work in my field.

This roundabout Ask him.Tell him approach is their unfortunate hallmark.

If you were a professional you would repeat all utterances in the target language without making any changes of this sort.