CH15
Interview and spot the difference
C = Interviewer
T = L2 Learner (Code 15: L1 Chinese, L2 English)
Lexical Size: no data
Course: MA in Interpreting & Translation
1 C can you please tell me your student number?
2 T XX500
3 C OK so we're gonna start with part ...
4 T yeah . could you tell me your name?
5 C my name is C . what's your name?
6 T my name is M R S bei chan .and where do you come from?
7 C ah..I come from Argentina . where do you come from?
8 T I come from china I was born there
9 C OK so where abouts in China? what were you born?
10 T I was born in Shaanxi
11 C Shaanxi
12 T Shaanxi province
13 C yeah yeah
14 T in nineteen eighty four .
15 C OK
16 T in Argentina what language do you speak?
17 C I speak Spanish in Argentina
18 T Spanish its your first language
19 C its my mother tongue
20 T yeah
21 C so what's your mother tongue?
22 T it's Chinese . Mandarin
23 C OK so you speak any other languages?
24 T no .
25 C English?
26 T English English .
27 C OK
28 T so um . what do you do for living?
29 C I work for UWS as a research assistant?
30 T yeah
31 C and I'm a conference interpreter and a translator? what do you do for a living?
32 T I do for an ware house man
33 C oh really?
34 T yeah
35 C OK . cool
36 T and do you like pets?
37 C oh I love animals yeah I have a dog and a cat . do you have any?
38 T no I use to have a cat in China but I don't have any here
39 C OK
40 T and a ..what is your favourite food in your country?
41 C oh in my country I would eat a lot of barbeques I love barbeques
42 T yeah
43 C so what's your favourite food?
44 T it's noodle
45 C noodle
46 T yeah
47 C OK
48 T but I seldom have noodles here
49 C oh really?
50 T yeah
51 C OK
52 T so what do you do in your spare time?
53 C in my spare time I play the guitar or I watch movies . go to the beach
54 T yeah great
55 C what do you do in your free time?
56 T I just drive around and have a rest
57 C drive?
58 T yeah
59 C around?
60 T yeah
61 C so you go for a cruise?
62 T ah not for a cruise just to beaches and mountains if you like
63 C so when's your birthday?
64 T its nineteen eighty f ah September the twenty f...twenty ninth
65 C oh its soon its tomorrow
66 T yeah its tomorrow its tomorrow
67 C tomorrow OK so... what are you going to do for your birthday?
68 T ah...I I don't have any plans yet
69 C oh OK
70 T maybe I have big dishes with my friends
71 C so do you remember what you did for your last birthday?
72 T yes I remember it clearly I went to inner Mongolia with one of my friends we drive there
73 C yeah
74 T and spent three days there
75 C so what did you do last weekend?
76 T last weekend I was at home having a good rest because it was a long weekend
77 C last weekend?
78 T yeah
79 C was it a long weekend? no that was STUVAC student vacation
80 T yes break break
81 C OK . so what did you do last summer? Chinese summer?
82 T Chinese summer? ah..I was working for mums for my mum's company I was working as a manager
83 C mm OK so what did you do there?
84 T we organise the orders and deliver the orders and organise the production of the products
85 C OK . so what can you tell me about your family? how many people are there in your family?
86 T ah . there are four members in my family my parents and my younger sister
87 C OK so what can you tell me about your father?
88 T my father is a...work for the government he's an official he's about forty eight years old today at a ..this year .
89 C mhm
90 T and a ..actually my in my pXX he likes sleeping and eating
91 C OK OK so ..how about your sister?
92 T my sister if a very lovely and a beautiful girl
93 C mm
94 T and she's in college now in grade one and she's learning dancing and music in in the local university in my home town . and a she's planning to visit me in the coming coming holiday
95 C mhm
96 T .and a she's a.. she's a girl who likes travelling very much
97 C OK
98 T she always organise a lot of travelling herself with her friends
99 C nice nice
100 T yeah
101 C so if I ask you to describe your mum's routine from the moment she wakes up till the moment she goes to bed . can you do that?
102 T pardon?
103 C what...if I ask you to describe your mum's day when she . from the moment she gets up till the moment she goes to bed can you describe that?
104 T yes my mum wake up always woke up from the ring coming from her employees or her partner or someone else
105 C yeah
106 T then she started to deal with her businesses ah from the morning after after made a several calls she started to have a very easy breakfast then there's the she went to her company actually she with their foot instead of by train by bus or driving cars and when she get there she started a busy day actually she receive a lot of ah phones and answers questions and ask
107 C mm
108 T questions for lot of peoples
109 C mm
110 T then ah usually she seldom has lunch at her work time then ah at the at evening I think after the work
111 C mhm
112 T there is a second important stage for her because a lot of people ah actually her friends
113 C mm
114 T will invite her to take part a lot of activities such as tcatv or have some dishes or
115 C oh OK
116 T have a talk in a in a pub or
117 C mm
118 T ..some some something
119 C oh OK
120 T something like that and when she came home and she will wash and eat and describe the day to me and talk with the family members then she wash and she went to bed
121 C OK OK cool um... I'm gonna give a this two pictures they have similarities and differences so I want you to find them out? can you please ask me yes no questions first?
122 T yes no questions
123 C about the pictures?
124 T is the question drawn by you?
125 C sorry?
126 T is the question . is the is the picture downloaded from the net?
127 C I don't know
128 T and ah..(long pause) I don't know how to ask..
129 C oh for example is there a blah blah blah do you see can you see
130 T ah
131 C can you tell me.
132 T I see I see is there five ducks in the river?
133 C no there're only four ducks in my in my picture
134 T yeah that's the difference . ah...is there a taxi on the road?
135 C no there's no cars there're no cars in my picture . how many cars are there in your picture?
136 T there are two cars and a truck in my picture
137 C OK
138 T and ah.. is there ladies stands on the chair with a hand bag in her hand?
139 C well there are two ladies in my picture but none of them ahm
140 T XX
141 C yeah yeah they don't have any yeah they don't have any bags
142 T is there two black cats near the two ladies?
143 C there's only one black cat next to the ladies
144 T ah..is there a bird on the tree in at the a ..corner of this picture? right
145 C no I can't see any birds in my picture .
146 T ah
147 C what can you see in the middle of the picture?
148 T I can see two . two children riding bicycles there . and a girl playing with her dog with her two dogs
149 C OK what colour are the dogs?
150 T one is gray and one is white and gray
151 C OK can you ask me dablryu eich questions . like what where how who
152 T um....(long pause) ah what what is the young boy eating using who wear a yellows t-shirt
153 C um...he's not eating in my picture he's having a drink . what is he eating in your picture?
154 T he's eating ice-cream in my picture
155 C OK
156 T and ah...um what is the girl passing to the boy next to him..next to her at the corner of the picture?
157 C um..they are playing with the ball so he's passing the ball to him . so what do you think the old ladies are talking about?
158 T um..they're chatting?
159 C what do you think they are chatting about?
160 T maybe they're chatting about family issues happening in the families
161 C so who is sitting next to the boy eating ice-cream?
162 T um...the mear (man?) reading the newspaper .
163 C OK
164 T and ah...how many birds can you see near the man reading the newspaper?
165 C I can see three gray birds . how many can you see?
166 T I can see three but there are two yellow one and one gray one
167 C OK so now I would like you to ask me questions starting with could you please tell me dah dah dah
168 T (long pause) could you please tell me the boy who...um..who playing with the dogs . ah . could you tell me the colour of the boy . the colour of the t-shirt the boy wears
169 C he's he's wearing an yellow t-shirt with blue pants
170 T um...could you tell me ....what um... could you tell me (whisper & laughs) what (long pause)
171 C do you see a spider?
172 T a spider? (long pause) yes I see I see one spider on the grass
173 C where is it?
174 T it's on the grass and near to the girl who's passing the ball to the boy
175 C OK well thank you very much for your time
176 T that's all?
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