- File 4B: Function (asking for information)* Speaking, Reading & Speaking
- File 4A: Monologues
Homework
- On Wednesday 12th , we're going to practice the speaking skill with dialogues. There are two cards A & B, one for you and the other for your partner. Prepare your card on your own to make it similar to the exam. As it happened with the monologues, you need to include modals, present perfect, vocabulary related to language learning (see the post B1 File 4B) and dependent prepositions. Remember there's a model for dialogues in the blog
- In addition, there's a written assignment. It consists in writing a post in a forum. The post is called "B1-A FILE 4B FORUM". Open it and follow the instructions. Deadline: Thursday, 13th February. Find more ideas by reading the following point
- Do you consider you need to know more about languages? Watch Video Listening on p67 of your student's book and do exercises 7b,c & d. These ideas and contents can help you to do your assignment well. Key below
KEY
b
2 French 3 Hebrew 4 Italian 5 Dutch 6 Greek 7 Spanish 8 Russian 9 German 10 English 11 Catalan
c
1 Alex says that every new language that he learns is a completely new adventure for him.
2 Greek and German are the two languages that he enjoys speaking the most.
3 Chinese and Slovene are two languages that he would like to learn at the moment.
4 Alex feels guilty that he he's never learned other British and Irish languages - Welsh, Irish, or Scottish Gaelic. On a recent trip to Wales that everything was in two languages, Welsh and English.
5 Russian was the most difficult language for him to learn, because he had to learn a new alphabet.
6 Youtube has helped Alex to watch videos in other languages and immerse himself in other cultures. He says that there's a lot of technology to help with learning vocabulary and grammar.
d
1 Because they don't have enough time, they're not doing it for the right reasons, or they expect it to be easier than it actually is.
2 Because the grammar is very simple (there are almost no irregular verbs, and there are only three real tenses) an a lot of the vocabulary in Africaans is very similar to vocabulary in English.
3 Because they don't have much confidence and they never get a chance to practise other languages.
4 You never finish learning a language.
Try to spend 10-15 minutes a day on the language you are learning
