Read about Rita’s language learning experiences. Choose the correct verb forms. I (1) started/‘ve started studying French after I (2) went/was going to France on holiday last year. I (3) ‘d never been/never went to France before and I couldn‘t speak a word of French. While I (4) had travelled/was travelling around the country, I (5) picked up/was picking up enough words and phrases to get by. I (6) told/was told that my pronunciation (7) was/was being quite good, so when I got home I (8) decided/was deciding to learn French properly. A friend (9) recommended/was recommended a school and I (10) go/‘ve been going there for about six months. I (11) always enjoy/‘m always enjoying the lessons and the language (12) teaches/is taught in a communicative way. I (13) think/‘m thinking that I (14)‘m learning/‘ve learned a lot since I started. It‘s not all fun, though – at the moment I (15) study/‘m studying for my first exam! Read the sentences and decide whether they are true (T) or false (F). 1 variantas 1. All people have one main/favourite learning style. (F) 2. People with the visual learning style use things that they can see. (T) 3. People with the kinesthetic learning style use physical experience. (T) 4. A good knowledge of vocabulary and grammar is not essential if you want to speak, write and understand what you hear and read. (F) 5. Writing and speaking help you use the words and grammar that you know to communicate with other people. (T) 6. Learning is a temporary process. (F) 7. Chinese is not a sophisticated language at all. (F) 8. While learning Chinese you need to draw strokes for characters, so you need to be an artist. (F) 9. A Chinese scholar would understand 20,000 characters. (T) 10. Chinese emperors put their political enemies in exile beyond mountains. (T) 2 variantas 11. People with the auditory learning style use things that they can hear. (T) 12. People with the physical learning style use physical experience. (T) 13. Reading and listening help you understand how new words and grammar work in communication. (T) 14. Ordinary people only need 1000 characters to understand the basic literacy in Chinese. (T) 15. The top 200 Chinese characters will allow you to comprehend 60 percent of basic literature. (F) 16. To an outsider, Chinese may seem to be as impenetrable as the Great Wall of China. (T) 17. You need to know more than 1000 Chinese characters to understand the basic idea of the web pages or the newspapers. (F) 18. The Chinese symbol meaning fire is originally from the shape of the fireplace. (T) 19. , The Chinese symbol of the door looks like a pair of saloon doors in the wild west. (T) 20. As the old saying goes, two is company, four is a crowd. (F) 3 variantas 1. People with the kinesthetic/physical learning style use physical experience. (T) 2. Learning is a temporary process. (F) 3. For Chinese people, the sun is the source of prosperity. (T) 4. The sun is coming up above the horizon means sunset. (F) 5. After we know the characters, we start building phrases. (T) 6. The Chinese characters the mountain and the fire together mean a volcano. (T) 7. Japan is the land of the rising moon. (F) 8. Japan lies to the west of China. (F) 9. Chinese emperors put their political enemies in exile usually to Japan. (F) 10. 200 Chinese characters is enough to read road signs, restaurant menus. (T) 4 variantas Choose an appropriate word. will, been, to, of, the, according, than, in, by, never, More people speak English ......... (than) any other language, but ................ (according) to English language expert David Crystal, non­native speakers now outnumber native speakers ..............(by) three ...............(to) one. ‘There‘s ...............(never) before been a language that‘s .............(been) spoken more as a second language.than a first,‘ he says. By ...........(the) end of last year, the number .........(of) .adult English speakers in Asia had.reached 350 million. And according to.the British Council, .............. (in) ten years‘time.2 billion people will study English and.about half the world‘s population .......... (will) speak it. 5 variantas Choose an appropriate word. command , local , foreign , first, mind , dead, foul , colloquial, body, poetic 1.
She grew up in Spain, so her................... language is Spanish. 2.
What do you think about the method our teachers use in the process of teaching English as a ...................... language at present­day secondary schools. 3.
Latin is a ................. language. 4.
When I was in Spain I didn’t quite understand the ................ language. 5.
Try not to use any ....................... language when you write an essay. 6.
You could tell from his ................. language that he was very embarrassed. 7.
He has a poor ..................... of English. 8.
The referee warned the players to ................... their language. 9.
I don’t expect my students to use ................. language in the class. 10.
It is not easy to understand and analyse ......................... language. Atsakymai: 1. first 2. foreign 3. dead 4. local 5. colloquial 6. body 7. command 8. mind 9. foul 10. poetic