Cover of the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.1 - Me and my languages for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

Read questions 1-10. What do the words in bold mean? Check with other students or your teacher, the think about your answers to the questions.

Answer

  • mother tongue → the first language that you learn as a child
  • learning strategies → plans, activities and techniques that people use to help them learn
  • foreign → from a country that is not your own
  • native speakers → people who learnt a language as their first language when they were a baby
  • slang → very informal language that uses new or rude words instead of more common words
  • jargon → words / phrases used by people in the same profession which are difficult for others to understand
  • fluency → the ability to speak / write a language very well without stopping frequently
  • accuracy → the quality of being correct
  • skill → an ability that needs to be learnt and practised, e.g, writing, playing the piano
  • bilingual → the ability to speak two languages fluently

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