Упражнения до прослушивания текста
1. Запомните незнакомые слова
ordinary -обычный
improve - улучшить
term - четверть
script - алфавит
2. What languages are mentioned in the texts?
3. Give a title to each text.
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Вы услышите 6 высказываний. Установите соответствие между высказываниями каждого говорящего 1 – 6и утверждениями, данными в списке A – G. Используйте каждое утверждение, обозначенное соответствующей буквой, только один раз. В задании есть одно лишнееутверждение. Вы услышите запись дважды. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. |
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Different activities in a foreign country helped the speaker learn the language. |
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The speaker learns the foreign language while listening to music. |
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The speaker thinks that some foreign languages give better career opportunities than others. |
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The speaker’s hobby was a strong motivation for learning the foreign language. |
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The speaker started learning the foreign language because she / he was going to travel. |
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A job in a foreign country helped the person speak the language better. |
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Mixing with native speakers helped the speaker learn about their way of life. |
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Now we are ready to start.
Speaker 1
In Spain I lived in a flat with students from the local university. In my drama class I met a Spanish girl who was looking for someone to speak English with. We became best friends and we spoke half the time in English, and half the time in Spanish. I also joined a gym and had great fun trying to do an aerobics class which was not a difficult task though the instructions were given in Spanish. On Sundays I went to the cinema and only watched Spanish films. Now I’m quite good at Spanish.
Speaker 2
I went to China to work as an English language teacher because I wanted to understand people who live in China. It took me a long time before I met local Chinese people with the same interests as I had. I met even more interesting people thanks to them. I had great fun and left China with a better understanding of the lifestyle of ordinary Chinese people.
Speaker 3
The first foreign language which I studied was French. I learnt it at a secondary school. Between school and university I spent three months working on two farms in southern France. This helped me to speak easily in French and to get a rich vocabulary connected with farming. I can still speak and read in French quite well. However, my written French is rather bad.
Speaker 4
I have always been good at languages that’s why I studied French and German at high school. To brush up my French and German I took part in a few student exchange programmes. But then I thought that my chances of finding a good job might be improved if I chose a more unusual language. I considered Chinese, Japanese and Arabic. Finally I decided on Chinese and Japanese, which I studied at the University of Leeds. During my second year I spent a term studying Chinese in China, and another term studying Japanese in Osaka.
Speaker 5
I began learning Arabic because I planned to visit different Arabic-speaking countries, including Morocco. Using a textbook I learnt Arabic pronunciation, the Arabic script, a few words and a bit of grammar. Soon I spent some weeks in Morocco. Unfortunately I found out that my French was much more useful than the little Arabic I knew.
Speaker 6
Many years ago I was given an Irish whistle as a birthday present. I liked it so much that soon I started to collect Irish tunes, songs and albums, it became my favourite occupation. I enjoyed listening to Irish music so much that I started playing it myself. As I listened to and played Irish music I got interested in the Irish language as well. And you see, my hobby led me to the decision to start learning the Irish language.