LANGUAGE LEARNING
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 575.
Task 1. Match the sentences in the left-hand column with those in the right-hand column, using the words in boldto help you. There is an example at the beginning (0).
| 0. Ben speaks six languages. (s) 1. Raymond speaks two languages. 2. Beth's French is perfect. 3. Sarah's Spanish is adequate for everyday needs. 4. Alan's Greek is really good. 5. I can't understand what he's saying. 6. When Jordi speaks English, he always uses the wrong tenses and puts the words in the wrong order. 7. When you are preparing for your First Certificate exam, you should use an English-English dictionary. 8. Do you know much Japanese? 9. Why did you buy this book? 10. How long have you been studying English? 11. Do you go to English classes? 12. How do you practise your listening skills? 13. What's the best way to remember new words? 14. Did you learn Italian at school? 15. How's your English? 16. How's Mary's Portuguese? 17. You speak English very well. 18. Where does she come from? 19. In my French lessons at school, we just listened to the teacher and repeated everything she said. | a) She speaks it fluently. b) We have a very good language laboratory at my school. c) His pronunciationis terrible. d) In fact he speaks it like a native. e) I've been learningit for five years. f) No, I'm teaching myselffrom a book. g) Learning a language parrot-fashion isn't very satisfactory. h) I'm not sure, but from her accentI presume she's Japanese. i) No, I picked it upwhen I was working in Milan. j) You should keepa recordof them, and try to recycle them as much as possible. k) He has terrible problems with his grammar. l) I want to improve my vocabulary. m) No, my knowledge is very limited. n) Thanks. Actually, it's my mother tongue. o) He is bi-lingual. p) I'm making slow progress. q) Longman produce good monolingualversions. r) When she goes on holiday, she manages to get by. s) He is multi-lingual. t) She thinks it's coming along nicely. |
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