Cover of the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.1 - Polyglots for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

Work in pairs and discuss your answers.

Answer

  1. He mingled with the international community on a trip to Russia.
  2. He came from a multilingual family. His father was also a linguist.
  3. They have a talent similar to that of a musician.
  4. It can be easy if you already know related language.
  5. 'Garbling' languages (getting them confused). They may start speaking in one language and accidentally drift into another language.
  6. Bonuses: he has appeared on television, and was able to help the police to identify the nationality of a man. Problems: he was suspected of being a terrorist because he spoke Chinese and Russian.