1) Introduction into the field of interpreting: types of interpreting, situations requiring interpreting services, concept of working languages, specifics of online interpreting.

2) Consecutive interpreting overview: situations suitable for CI, introduction into the note-taking, criteria of a good source speech structure, reformulation exercises.

3) Students’ speeches on their own topics (2 – 3 minutes) + consecutive interpreting without note-taking, feedback and general discussion.

4) Developing note-taking system: different types of notes, strategies of creating symbols and abbreviations, seeking effective balance between memory and notes, layout of the notebook, possibilities of digital note-taking.

5) Topic I: Environmental pollution, its causes, and solutions in different countries: students’ speeches + consecutive interpreting, feedback, and general discussion.

6) Topic II: Types of poverty in the developed and developing countries + consecutive interpreting of PowerPoint presentations.

7) Topic III: Panel discussion: Artificial intelligence in education, healthcare, and industry – benefits and drawbacks + consecutive interpreting of speeches.

8) Topic IV: Diseases of affluence, their treatment and prevention + consecutive interpreting, feedback, and general discussion.

9) Topic V: The most significant conflicts in the world and their impact on the European society, + consecutive interpreting, feedback, and general discussion.

10) Topic VI: Europe and migration – challenges and contributions of a new multicultural environment + dialogue interpreting, feedback, and general discussion.

11) Trying simultaneous interpreting: first exercises: shadowing, reformulation, basic level speeches on current topics.

12) Exam: Bilingual conference on current world problems from the perspective of different countries.