Shifting Gears - Trudy, Roger & Debbie sharing ASL texts

ASL Texts for Consecutive Interpreting Practice

Video Formats

This text is provided in a variety formats to allow you to work with it in different ways.

  • Complete text in slow motion:  The video is shown at 80% of its original speed
  • Chunked in slow motion:  The slow motion video is segmented into main ideas for practice with consecutive interpreting.
  • English Outline:  An outline is provided for support of comprehension.
  • Complete text full speed:  The video is shown at its original speed.
  • Chunked at full speed:  The full-speed video is segmented into main ideas for practice with consecutive interpreting.

See “Ideas for Working with Videos” for suggestions on how to use these different formats.

Skin Deep

Roger Brown shares his experience at school as one of the only Black students and how he learned to appreciate the color of his skin.

The text is offered in two formats:  slow motion (80% speed) and full speed.  Each text is also segmented into sections with larger ideas so that you can practice consecutive interpreting.

Complete Text – Slow Motion

Segmented Text:  Slow Motion

The following version of the text is produced at 80% and separated into 3 sections for practice with consecutive interpreting.

Work with Complete Text Again (Slow Motion)

Now that you have gone through this process and worked with the sections edited for consecutive practice, try interpreting the complete text again.    If you wish, you can also review the English outline of the text to support your comprehension before moving to the full speed text. The complete video is at the top of this page.  Click here to return there.

English Outline

English Outline for Skin Deep

If you prefer a PDF version of the outlines with line numbers, download English outlines for Shifting Gears.

  • Experience of developing identity at school
    • Indiana School for the Deaf
    • Racial balance
      • Expected a lot of black students
      • Discovered mostly white students
    • Frustrating to see
      • Wanted to become white
      • Saw other students in the shower
        • Tried to scrub skin until it was white
      • Nothing worked
        • Hair texture
        • Easy for white students to comb
        • Own hair was harder to comb
      • Sense of frustration
    • Finding resolution
      • Asked dorm parent
      • Explained was trying to scrub skin so it would be white
      • Dorm parent explained
      • Skin color didn’t matter
        • Inside all the same
        • Our blood is all the same
          • This explanation satisfied me
        • No longer attempted to scrub
      • Felt comfortable in own skin

Step 1:  Complete Text – Full Speed

Segmented Text:  Full Speed

The following version of the text is shown at the original speed and separated into 3 sections for practice with consecutive interpreting.

Work with Complete Text Again (Full Speed)

Now that you have gone through this process and worked with the sections edited for consecutive practice, try interpreting the complete text again.    If you wish, you can also review the English outline of the text to support your comprehension.

The complete video is in the middle of this page.  Click here to return there.