Prime Time 5, Transition, Coursebook mit Audio-CD

b) Talk about your family and the languages your relatives (parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, …) speak. • Where do they come from? • What languages do they speak? • Which language/dialect is the one you use at home? c) Describe your own language skills. Language 1 Language 2 Language 3 Which languages do you speak? How long have you been learning these languages? Where have you been learning these languages? Have you stayed in a country where these languages are widely used? How well do you know these languages? beginner intermediate advanced native beginner intermediate advanced native beginner intermediate advanced native d) In pairs, talk to each other about the languages you know and how, where and why you learned them. e) Present each other to your classmates. Talk about the languages your partner knows and explain why he/she has learned a foreign language. Useful phrases Language I can speak … fluently. • My mother tongue is … . • I am a native speaker of … . • My knowledge of … is rather basic. • I can understand simple … . I have been learning … for … years. • I have just started learning … . • I have been learning … at home/ in school/from my parents/ from my grandmother… . I have never stayed in … . • I went to … in 20 . . . • I have been to … three times. • I visited my family in … . I can answer questions spontaneously. • I can talk about familiar topics. • I cannot speak about unfamiliar topics. • I can talk about personal details. • I can make myself understood in most situations. • I can cope with most everyday situations. I can chat with people in … . • I can explain my problems in … . I think complex sentences are difficult/hard to understand. P 9 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv