Answer — Exercise 1

a)

Problems

1. speaker taps microphone - can cause interpreter pain / serious injury / hearing loss
2. speaker is not good at the language and impossible to follow
3. the speaker speaks too fast
4. humour doesn't easily translate / travel well
5. references are unfamiliar to audience

Solutions

1. educate / shock the speaker and the organisation
2. ask for the speech in advance
3. summarise what they say
4. tell audience speaker has made an untranslatable joke and ask them to laugh
5. suggest speaker finds references the audience will understand

c)

1. booth
2. least
3. case scenario
4. incompetent
5. educated guess
6. fall back
7. steer clear
8. mutual