1.5. Foreign Languages in Our Life
Discussing
Why is learning a foreign language important? Read the quotes about learning languages. Choose 2 of them you like best, and comment on them:
❝If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.❞ ‒Nelson Mandela
❝Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.❞ ‒Rita Mae Brown
❝ Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.❞
--Roger Bacon
❝No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.❞ - Ralph Waldo Emerson
❝Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can; there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.❞ ‒Sarah Caldwell
❝A different language is a different vision of life.❞ ‒Federico Fellini
Why do you study English? Would you like to learn some other language? What for?
Noun Plurals.
Grammar review
1.7. Game Corner
Revision
Revise letters and figures by playing the game:
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INSTEIN’S
ENIGMA
The facts:
There are five houses of five different colours.
In each house lives a person of a different nationality.
Each of the five house owners drinks a certain type of drink, smokes a certain type of cigarette and owns a certain type of pet animal.
The question: Who owns the fish?
Some clues:
The Englishman lives in a red house.
The Swede has dogs as his pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall cigarettes has birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The person who lives in the house in the middle drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house on the left.
The man who smokes Blend lives next to the man who has cats.
The man who has a horse is the neighbour of the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince cigarettes.
The Norwegian lives just next door to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.
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UNIT 2. I’M A STUDENT