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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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