Unit Skills Tests Answer Key

Unit Skills Tests | Answer Key

GROUP A and B

Unit Test 1A 1 According to a recent study, / today's teens prefer building relationships online. / However, some parents find it difficult / to put themselves in their children's shoes / as face-to-face communication / was valued more in their day. / Experts advise families / to work together at creating bonds / in order to improve / their own levels of selfawareness. 2 1 face-to-face

`Reading texts in one language and writing them down in another instead of communicating face-to-face like interpreters do left me less than inspired.' 2 regrets `I've been working as an interpreter for three years now and I don't regret my decision to switch from one to the other for a minute.' 3 complete stranger `I was once at a training event organised by an association for professional interpreters that I belong to and was offered work at a conference by a complete stranger I had struck up a conversation with.' 4 experienced `Working as an interpreter isn't easy though. Even those with plenty of experience may feel uneasy when working at a conference requiring specialised knowledge of, say, a subject like medicine or engineering.' 5 joke `Everything was going very well, right up until the end when I had to translate a joke from Spanish to English. Although my Spanish is excellent, I just didn't get it as the speaker used an idiomatic expression I didn't know.' 3 1 down 2 keeping 3 kidding 4 relief 5 goodness 4 1 d `Fingerspelling [...] seems to be a practical way of clarifying meaning and must be easier to learn for people who aren't deaf.' 2 a `Another similarity with spoken language is that we can find regional variations in the use of symbols within one signing language, [...].'

3 c `This is because the first school for the deaf was established in 1817 in America by a man called Gallaudet ? who had learned teaching methods at a school for the deaf in Paris ? and Laurent Clerc, who had studied there.'

4 b `However, hearing people's attitudes to deafness and to sign language have changed a lot since then.' and `Finally, we shouldn't ignore role models such as Kevin Hall [...] who [...] has helped change attitudes towards deafness.'

5 d `If they can't get a place on a course, a practical solution is to use one of the many free websites and video resources available on the Internet. It's easy!'

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Unit Skills Tests | Answer Key

GROUP A and B

Unit Test 1B 1 According to a recent study, / today's teens prefer building relationships online. / However, some parents find it difficult / to put themselves in their children's shoes / as face-to-face communication / was valued more in their day. / Experts advise families / to work together at creating bonds / in order to improve / their own levels of selfawareness. 2 1 inspired

`Reading texts in one language and writing them down in another instead of communicating face-to-face like interpreters do left me less than inspired.' 2 hospitals and courts / courts and hospitals `I started out working in public service interpreting. [...] I spent a year conveying messages between people who don't speak each other's languages in locations as diverse as hospitals and courts. 3 emergency department `When I was finishing my Master's, the local hospital got in touch with my university as they desperately needed someone to go to the emergency department [...]. 4 training event `I was once at a training event organised by an association for professional interpreters that I belong to and was offered work at a conference by a complete stranger I had struck up a conversation with. 5 architects `I was once working at an international convention for architects. [...] Although my Spanish is excellent, I just didn't get it as the speaker used an idiomatic expression I didn't know.' 3 1 weight 2 breathe 3 blue 4 would 5 dumps 4 1 c `Statistics published by the World Federation of the Deaf state there are about 72 million deaf people around the world, over 80% of whom live in developing countries.' 2 a `Finally, we can find regional variations in the use of symbols within one signing language within one country [...].'

3 d `Interestingly, there was a lot of opposition to signing in Britain in the twentieth century, as deaf children were encouraged to learn lipreading and fingerspelling. British law only recognised BSL as an official minority language in the UK in 2003!'

4 a `Finally, we shouldn't ignore role models such as Kevin Hall, the first deaf professional golfer on the American PGA tour, who has inspired the deaf and hearing alike with his courage and has helped change attitudes towards deafness.'

5 b `To conclude, some people believe children in hearing schools should learn sign language so they can better communicate with deaf classmates [...].'

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