Prime Time 5, Coursebook mit Audio-CD

b) Say in what way the three diagrams correspond to her comments. c) Interpret and discuss what the third diagram shows. 3 A poster for a language school Make a poster for a language school promoting foreign languages. • Explain why people should learn foreign languages – give examples and use pictures. • Find a catchy title. • Provide course information and contact details. 4 Listening: Just another pizza order in Manhattan A New York City radio station recorded a strange dialogue for its “Believe it or not” show. Manhattan banker Dale Dupont called in with his story. a) Listen to the first part of this strange dialogue and say what happened to Dale. b) Why do you think it is impossible for Dale to talk to Steve in person? c) Now listen to the second part of the radio programme and explain why this is a story of “The world speaks English”. Tourism and speaker interaction Estimated ranking of languages Disappearing languages 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 14000 16000 2200 2100 2000 1900 1800 1700 1600 1500 Number of languages in world 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 Japanese 126 French 128 German 128 Portuguese 191 Bengali 211 Russian 277 Spanish 417 Hindi 487 English 508 Mandarin 1,052 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. when second-languageuse is taken intoaccount. (BasedonOstler,2005) (Dataderived fromWorldTourism Organisation) Year English to English 4% English to other countries 12% Other countries to English 10% Non-English speaking to non-English speaking 74% WORD BANK Talking about diagrams the graph shows • increase • decrease • to gain • to drop • pie chart • bar chart • percentage • per cent • to amount to • to estimate • estimated • with regard to • as far as … is concerned • ranking • to rank (fourth) • by the year (2200) • to take into account 1.2–3 10 The world speaks English 1 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv