KS4 · Spanish
Why do the French call Jaws "The Teeth of the Sea"? Why does "I'm hot" get you a funny look in Paris? International Translation Day (30 September) is the perfect excuse to show Years 7–9 that translation is a puzzle, not a lookup. Nine short tasks build from the difference between a translator and an interpreter to guessing films from their French or Spanish titles, matching false friends, drawing idioms literally (then students draw an English one for a partner), untranslatable words and an invent-a-word challenge, the "myth or fact" round on real translation disasters, a machine-translation
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