The key answer of exercise 2
The key to exercise solutions in chapter Communication 1 for the textbook New Total English Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education
Question
- Listen to two people, Stig and Tessie, talking about leaning a language. Answer the questions.
- Listen again and look at the phrases in the How to ... box. Which phrases does Stig say? Which does Tessie say? Write S or T.
Answer
a)
Stig
- Japanese; because his wife's parents don’t speak English
- speaking; listening
- reading and writing
- reading and writing
Tessie
- Spanish; because she dreams of living in Latin America
- understanding what people say; reading
- expressing herself
- speaking skills / fluently
b)
Stig
- I’m quite good at speaking.
- My listening's not bad.
- The most difficult thing is learning to read and write.
- I really want to improve my reading and writing.
Tessie
- I’m quite good at understanding what people say.
- I’m pretty good at reading.
- I’m finding it (rather) difficult to express myself.
- I would really like to improve my speaking skills.
- Communication is the most important thing.
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