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What Happens in the Brain when you Learn a Language?

Total questions: 9

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1.________________________ (learn) a foreign language can increase the size of your brain.

a)

To learn

b)

Learning

c)

Learn

d)

If learning

2.

This is what Swedish scientists 2.______________ (discover) when they used brain scans to monitor what 3._____________ (happen)...

a)

have discovered / happened

b)

discovered / was happening

c)

discovered / happens

d)

discovered / is happening

3.

The study 4.__________________ (be) part of a growing body of research usgin brain imaging technologies to better understand the cognitive benefits of language learning.

a)

is

b)

was

c)

has been

d)

could have been

4.

Magnetic resonance [...] can now tell us not only whether we 5.________________ (need) knee surgery...

a)

will need

b)

have needed

c)

needed

d)

need

5.

, but reveal what 6.__________________ (happen) in our brains when we 7._________________ (hear), understand and produce second languages.

a)

was happening / hear

b)

happens / hear

c)

is happening /hear

d)

happens / are to hear

6.

The Sweddish MRI study 8._________________ (show) that learning a foreign language...

a)

showed

b)

has shown

c)

shows

d)

is showing

7.

that learning a foreign language 9.____________________ (have) a visible effect on the brain.

a)

is having

b)

has had

c)

has

d)

had

8.

Young adult military recruits with a flair for languages 10._______________ (learn) Arabic, Russian or Dari intensively,...

a)

were learning

b)

are learning

c)

will have learnt

d)

learn

9.

, while a control group of medical and cognitive science students also 11._________________ (study) hard, but not at languages.

a)

were studying

b)

studied

c)

study

d)

will study