ABSTRACT

In this chapter student interpreter learns to identify elements of a speech with equivalent or different importance and take notes that clearly show that relative importance. It looks at a number of ways of reflecting in our notes the differing levels of importance (values) that the speaker has given to the elements of a speech. In learning to do this, learn to identify, note and thereby communicate to the listener some of those same variations. Good speakers will vary the volume, speed and tone of their delivery to make these differences apparent to their audience. Interpreters will wish to do the same, but, unlike the speaker, they will be working not on the basis of their own convictions but rather from what the speaker has said, their memory of the same and the notes they have made. Prepare speeches for lessons and practice sessions in consecutive note-taking style, and uses those notes to give their speeches.