KS4 · Spanish · Year 11
Una visita especial: translation, transcription
Travel and tourism: lugares y personas famosos
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Your learning goal
I can use different strategies to improve my dictation and translation skills.
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Una visita especial: translation, transcription: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
Original teaching resources
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Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can use different strategies to improve my dictation and translation skills.
Key learning points
- Successful transcription involves careful listening, writing and checking, ensuring every word written makes sense.
- Effective translation requires more than direct word-for-word substitution.
- The VAN check involves checking your verbs, adjectives and nouns after translating.
- The VAN check can significantly improve accuracy when tackling translation tasks.
Words to know
- transcription
- process of listening to spoken words and writing them down accurately, also known as dictation
- translation, translating
- changing words or sentences from one language into another, so the meaning stays the same
- VAN check
- a proofreading technique to improve the accuracy of verbs, adjectives, and nouns
Common mistakes
Translating word-for-word is an effective strategy when tackling translation tasks.
Effective translation requires more than direct word-for-word substitution. Applying knowledge of grammar and using proofing strategies, such as the VAN check (Verbs, Adjectives, Nouns), can significantly improve accuracy.
For parents, carers and teachers
- In Learning Cycle 2, Option 1 in Task B1 has Higher-tier structures and vocabulary and Option 2 is for Foundation tier. Note that the Option 2 translation has been designed to revisit structures and vocabulary recently covered, rather than accurately represent an example translation.