Unit Check
1. Fill in the spaces
The English are often said to be the 1.worst language learners in the world. They think that because everyone else 2.speaks English, they don't need to learn any other languages. When it comes 3. to speaking languages - I'm terrible. In my German lessons at school I 4.would spend most of the time 5. trying not to fall asleep. Now i live in Germany i wish i had 6. paid more attention. When i try 7. to speak German i don't think people can 8. make out much of what i say. And when people speak to me, i'm lucky if i can just 9. get the gist. Of course, because most Germans speak English well, they soon start speaking it, 10. which means i never practise speaking German!
2. Choose the correct answers
1. she talks so fast that i can't even A. get the gist.
2. i would C. go for a notebook. They're much easier to carry around with you
3. Many idioms are B. totally incomprehensible until you learn what they mean
4. I A. managed to pick out few words.
5. He got into trouble for taking C. off his headmaster in lesson
6. My younger brother gets A. away with everything. It's not fair
7. You've C. lost me completely. What exactly are we talking about?
8. My dad founf B. out that i went to the party. He was furious
9. I B. got most of what she said but not everything
3. Vocabulary
1. My doctor uses so much medical J A R G O N, it is difficult to understand him sometimes
2. Don't talk with food with your mouth. i didn't understand a W O R D of what you just said
3. I D I O M S are the hardest things to understand. Their meanings are often so different to the words in them
4. i got the G I S T of what he said but i didn't understand everything
5. My dad S W E A R S a lot when he watches football. He uses such bad language
6. The teenagers i met in UK spoke so much S L A N G that i couldn't understand them
7. When we were in Peru i managed to M A K E out a few words of Spanish
8. She's deaf so she uses S I G N language to communicate
9. i got letter from my lawyer. I don't understand a word of it. It's I N C O M P R E H E N S I B L E
