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                                                          3 Rewrite  these  sentences  using  the  words/
                                                             phrases in brackets.
                                                          1.   I don’t know any French. (speak a word)
                                                                I _____________________________________________.
                                                          2.   I  learned  a  few  words  of  English  on  holiday.
                                                             (picked)
                                                                I _____________________________________________.
                                                          3.   My brother can speak Italian very well. ( uent)
                                                                My __________________________________________.
                                                          4.   I can speak both English and French perfectly.
                                                             (bilingual)
           Vocabulary                                           I’m __________________________________________.
                                                          5.   I speak enough German for holidays. (get by)
           1  Underline the correct word in each sentence.
                                                             I __________________________________ on holiday.
           1.   I’m from Viet Nam. My  rst/foreign language is   6.   I haven’t practised my Russian for a long time.
              Vietnamese.                                    (rusty)
           2.   She  spoke  English  with  a  strong  accent/        My __________________________________________.
              intonation that I couldn’t understand.
                                                          4  Use the words from the box to complete the
           3.   The Yorkshire dialect/language is one of many in   sentences.
              England.
                                                                             touchdown ouchdown
                                                                                         check-out  -out
                                                             swimming pool
                                                             swimming pool
                                                             swimming pool te
                                                                             t corrects
                                                                                         check translate
           4.   Most students learned English as their o  cial/  mistakes  imita  touchdown   check-out
                                                                             mix-up -up
                                                                             mix
                                                             pile-up
                                                                                         full board
                                                                                         full boardd
                                                             pile-up      pile-up    accent      communicate   guess
              second language.                               look up         mix-up      full boar
           5.   Canada  has  two  foreign/o  cial  languages:   It’s normal to have a(n) (1)______ when we speak English. It’s
              English and French.                            OK – other people can usually understand us. It’s a good idea to
                                                             listen to CDs or watch DVDs and try to (2)______ other speakers
           2  Read what three people say about speaking      to make your pronunciation better. If you see a new word and you
              languages.  Fill  each  blank  with  a  phrase  in   don’t know what it means, you can sometimes (3)______ the
              the boxes.                                     meaning from words you know, or you can (4)______ the word
                                                             in a dictionary. A lot of good English learners try not to (5)______
              can also get by    am reasonably good  picked up  things from their  rst language. Translation is sometimes a good
                                                             idea, but try to think in the foreign language if you can! It’s normal
             My  rst language is Vietnamese, but I live in a   to make (6)______. When your teacher (7)______ a mistake
              neighbourhood where there are a lot of English   in your writing or speaking, think about it and try to see why it’s
              families,  so  I  (1)______  at  English.  I  (2)______ in   wrong. But it’s more important to (8)______, so don’t be afraid
              French.  We  went  to  Paris  last  summer  and  I   to speak!
              (3)______ the basics.
                                                          Grammar
               also  uent in            can have a conversation       5 Put the correct relative pronoun in each
               am bilingual          it’s a bit rusty        sentence.
                                                                              which
             I (4)______ because my father is French and my     Example:
                                                                            That’s the dog  ate our dinner.
              mother is Spanish. I’m (5)______ English because   1.   Those are the stairs I broke my arm.
              I work in a multinational company. I (6)______ in
              Italian, but (7)______.                     2.   There’s a shop you can buy English books and
                                                             CDs.
            know a few words     can’t speak a word       am quite bad at  3.   The English couple live next to us can get by in
                                                             Vietnamese.
             To be honest, I (8)______ languages. I (9)______ of   4.   There’s a shop near my house sells cheap DVDs.
              English that I learned from my grandfather, but I   5.   Look up the new words in the dictionary has just
              (10)______ of anything else.                   been published by Oxford University Press.


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