Graeme Ford is a senior Translating teacher at our Translating and Interpreting Section (Petersham College). He is preparing for a new venture and tells us all about it. He also talks about his career path, translating, interpreting and other related topics.

Listen to our conversation and answer these questions.

Listen to the interview and check the exercises on the worksheet.

Check this worksheet to support your listening and extend your learning. As usual you can practise by listening and pausing the mp3 file to interpret, practise your pronunciation and your memory skills.

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We are studying topics related to Health. Listen to this interview with a young Sydneysider, Miguel, talking about Type 1 diabetes.

Tasks:

• Listen to it once, to get the general gist of the conversation
• Listen and do the Diabetes worksheet
• Then listen to it in chunks, stop the file and repeat his sentences (without taking notes) as close as possible to the original
• Listen and record yourself. Then compare both recordings
• Listen to the whole conversation and take notes
• Repeat the conversation from your notes. Record yourself doing it
• Listen to chunks and translate into your TL (target language)

You can do this at home by yourself or with a classmate. To record yourself, you can use any of the recording applications found in any standard computer or download Audacity  (free) & lame. This will allow you to create mp3 files, which you can download into your ipod or mp3 player to practise anywhere anytime!

For more information, visit Diabetes Australia

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Michael Keating, a teacher from the English section at our college, visited our class last week and told us about his father, Graham Keating, who is a Town Crier.
Listen to our conversation to find out more about Town Criers, Michael and his dad.

You can also watch this video where Graham Keating introduces the new Town Crier for Liverpool Council. It will help you understand what a town crier does.

You can use their comments as part of your blog post on the excursion.

Visit Our Class 2009, 2008 & 2007 for more posts on Sculpture by the Sea (tagged sculpturebythesea)

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On August the 14th 2009 5 students from Loftus Event Manmagement worked for the Green Light for Green Skills conference organised by the TAFE NSW Managers Association.

They were registering the conference participants, helping with rooms, liaising with the hotel managers and conference organisers, etc. They had also prepared wonderful decorations created from recycled materials sourced from the Reverse Garbage co-operative in Marrickville. I talk to them about their experience.

Have you ever heard about Event Mangement as a job? Maybe you should look into it as a possible career. Listen to them and see what they think about it.

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Architecture and building management are the other areas I discussed with Christina totsis.

Listen to our conversation.

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Christina Totsis works at St George TAFE. She wears many hats (check the meaning of this expression!). Listen to our interviews and find out about her role at the college.You can also visit her building management wiki.

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They also created mini radio programs around some topics related to health. like food and sports.

This is a summary of all the podcasts:

Dental Care

Our thoughts on Health Expo 09

Food

Sports

The environment

Coast Walks