News English Lesson, 19th November, 2011
MULTIPLE CHOICE
Around two-(1) ____ of British people cannot say anything in a foreign language. This (2) ____ they are among the world’s worst language learners. A report from Hotels.com showed that one-(3) ____ of Britons were (4) ____ of what ‘bonjour’ meant. Over 60 per cent could not guess what the Dutch word ‘goedemorgen’ meant, even (5) ____ it sounds similar to ‘good morning’. One of the (6) ____ phrases people in the report understood was 'Una cerveza por favor' – ‘One beer please’.
Britons have an (7) ____ of being very bad at trying to speak the local language when they travel. The findings in this report (8) ____ to prove this. Only a third said they would (9) ____ to say a few foreign words when they go abroad. Most of those questioned said they expected people (10) ____ speak English when they went overseas. All British students have to study a foreign language (11) ____ to the age of 14. However, only one (12) ____ ten young people said they could speak one.
Put the correct words from this table into the article.
| 1. | (a) | thirds | (b) | third | (c) | thirdly |
| 2. | (a) | meaning | (b) | mean | (c) | means |
| 3. | (a) | five | (b) | fifty | (c) | fifth |
| 4. | (a) | surely | (b) | unsure | (c) | insure |
| 5. | (a) | though | (b) | thought | (c) | through |
| 6. | (a) | much | (b) | some | (c) | few |
| 7. | (a) | picture | (b) | image | (c) | drawing |
| 8. | (a) | seem | (b) | seems | (c) | seam |
| 9. | (a) | trying | (b) | try | (c) | tries |
| 10. | (a) | at | (b) | of | (c) | to |
| 11. | (a) | down | (b) | up | (c) | along |
| 12 | (a) | in | (b) | up | (c) | at |
1. a
ReplyDelete2. c
3. c
4. b
5. a
6. c
7. b
8. a
9. b
10. c
11. b
12. a