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The risks of Omission

• A: Well, I always thought she’d ‘ad a boy…
• B: She’s a slag.
• A: No she’s not
• B: She fu**ng is.
• A: She loves yer. We all love yer.
• B: You comin back
• A: No.
• B: You got to.
• A: Why should I?
• B: You gotta face up to it!
• A: Face up to what?

• I thought she had a boy.
• She’s a slag.
• NONE
• NONE
• She loves you. All of us do.
• You coming back?
• NONE
• You have to.
• NONE
• You have to face up to it.
• NONE

• Reduce in English the bits of conversation below by 50%. Omit, condense and reformulate as required. Distribute your rewritten version over 1 or 2 lines as indicated:
• Chief inspector, would you mind just telling me why do you think that an autopsy is necessary in this case? (1 line)
• She split up the family but I gave her the kids, because she’s their mother and a child needs its mother. (1 line)
• Do you really think back, though, to those days when you were really hated by the whites of South Africa, or can you forget? (2 lines)

THEORY READING TASK (for week 3)

• In pairs, prepare to discuss in class McQuail’s description of the social functions of the media (Mass Communication Theory Ch. 2) and to reflect on the role that translators play. (Come prepared with notes)