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C. Listen again and mark these sentences as true (T) or false (F).

1. Faraz is in his third year at secondary school.
2. He feels he has to work and study more this year.
3. He recently started to learn a new language.
4. He feels confident that he’ll improve quickly.
5. Nasma offers to help him learn the language.
6. She suggests buying an app to help him study, too.
7. Faraz already uses an app to study vocabulary.
8. Nasma accidentally said she was going to eat her hair in a French lesson.

D. Match the phrasal verbs with their meanings.

1. I’m slowly settling in. a. become easier to remember
2. It’ll be easier once you get more into the routine. b. become more comfortable in a situation
3. I seem to mess up every time I open my mouth! c. become more familiar with a situation
4. Why don’t you sign up for one of those apps? d. do
5. The sentences they come out with are a bit strange. e. join
6. Some of the words are slowly sinking in. f. make a mistake

7. The teacher asked what I was up to after school. g. meet
8. We can get together another day. h. say

E. Work with a partner. What tips would you give someone trying to learn a new language?

Grammar 2 Intensifiers

A. Order the letters to make intensifiers.

Many people think that languages such as Xhosa, which have click consonants, are 1
(ervy) difficult to learn. However, it depends on your background. If you are familiar with other
languages with this sort of pronunciation, it can be 2 (eprtty) easy to learn a similar
language. Pronunciation is often a 3 (aacillprrtuy) tricky aspect to learn in any language.
For example, English is 4 (aceeillonptxy) annoying for many language learners because
the way it’s written doesn’t always match the way it’s spoken.
It’s great when people decide to learn 5 (bcdeiilnry) obscure languages in their free
time, like Klingon or Elvish. I think you have to be 6 (eeelmrtxy) motivated to keep it up,
especially as it’s probably 7 (aehrrt) hard to find people to practise with. I guess you’d be
8 (aellry) happy if you did find someone to have a conversation with!

B. Answer the questions.
1. Which intensifiers in exercise A mean to a strong degree?

2. Which is a synonym for especially?
3. Which ones don’t we use with strong adjectives, such as terrified or brilliant?

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