Review unit 9 - TIENG ANH 9

Match the following

• able to speak 2 languages equally well because you learned them as a child.

• bilingual

• able to speak, read or write a language easily, quickly, and well

• rusty

• not as good as language as you used to be because you have not used it for a long time.

• fluent

Match the following

• to a degree that is fairly good, but not very good

• reasonably

• know just enough of a language for simple communication

• pick up a language

• learn a language by practising it, rather than by learning it in a class.

• get by in a language

Match the following

• an accent

• know what a

• the meaning of a word

• make

• mistakes

• have

• word means

• guess

Match the following

• other speakers

• imitate

• mistake

• translate from

• in a dictionary

• look up a word

• your first language

• correct a

If you don’t … what a word means, try to guess the meaning.

• imitate

• make

• know

All the foreign speakers … an accent, but that doesn’t matter.

• translate

• have

• correct

To make your pronunciation better, listen to English speakers and try to … them.

• look up

• guess

• imitate

It’s often useful to … words from one language to other, but it’s best when you can start to think in the new language.

• foreigner

• bilingual

• fluent

My English is a bit _________. I haven't used it for years.

• fluent

• rusty

• reasonably

My grandfather is 80 years old, and he’s … in both French and English.

• fluent

• rusty

• reasonably