Prime Time 5/6, Language in Use, Arbeitsheft

4 Learning tips: Making suggestions, giving advice You have read a lot about how to learn a foreign language. Surely you have also found out which methods and which strategies work best. a) From the list below, choose ten possible strategies that could help your friend who wants to improve his/her English. • collect linking words • collect words in word fields • do exercises more than once • keep a learning diary • listen to English radio programmes on the internet • listen to songs and look up the lyrics on the internet • make lists of synonyms • organise your materials • plan your learning activities well ahead of your tests • read articles from English papers or magazines • read texts about topics you are interested in • revise new words and phrases regularly • rewrite texts and adapt them • set a goal for yourself • study a simplified text • study the grammar pages in your coursebook • use index cards to study new words • use a dictionary if you don’t understand a word or phrase • watch as many English films as you can • watch videos with subtitles • write down new words and phrases b) Now use the ten strategies you have chosen and the phrases below to give advice to your friend. Example: Couldn’t you collect linking words? Collecting linking words is worth a try. Phrases + infinitive Phrases + -ing form Couldn’t you … ? Don’t you think it is a good idea to … ? If I were you, I would … . Let’s … . Why don’t you … ? You need to … . You ought to … . You should … . You’d better … . … is worth a try. Have you thought about … ? Have you tried … ? How about … ? What about … ? In my experience, … works really well. 5 Finding the right definitions Match the words on the left with the correct definitions on the right. 1. population H A soldiers protecting the peace in an area 2. mother tongue B systematic study of the natural world, e.g. chemistry and physics 3. migrant worker C somebody who has fled his or her home country 4. refugee D a simple working language used for communication 5. peacekeeping troops E first language 6. aid worker F people who go to another country or another area to work there 7. lingua franca G someone who works for an organisation that brings food and other supplies to people in danger from wars, floods, etc. 8. science H / all the people living in a country 6 Speaking English • The world speaks English 1 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv