English Unlimited HTL 4/5, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

70 Immigration and diversity 05 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE EXTRAS Explore speaking: Diversity and cultural awareness Topic area: Citizenship Focus: Diversity in Austria / Cultural awareness Situation: You are an exchange student in an English-speaking country. You are taking part in a student project dealing with diversity in education and business life. The purpose of the project is to produce a general overview of immigration and diversity in EU member countries. 35 You’re going to listen to Sahana and Liesbeth talking about languages in India and the Netherlands. What do you know about languages in these countries? Listen to Sahana and Liesbeth. What do they say about these questions? 1 What languages are spoken? Where? 2 What about language learning in schools? Listen to Sahana and Liesbeth saying more about their languages. Which three of these questions do they answer? 1 How has the language changed in the last fifty years? 2 How do people feel about: gestures? volume? silence? interrupting? 3 How do people feel about changes in the language? 4 How have languages been important in the history of the country? 5 What are or were the most popular languages for people to learn? 6 How would you describe the character of the language? Listen again. Note down two or three details about the answers to each of the three questions. Compare your notes. How do the expressions in each group 1–4 differ in meaning? Do any have the same meaning? 1 a language a dialect an accent 2 an official language a regional language a common language 3 a mother tongue a first language a second language 4 monolingual bilingual multilingual Prepare to talk about languages (or dialects) where you live or in another place you know. 1 Choose questions to talk about from 31b and 32a . 2 Plan what to say about each topic, using language from 33 to help you. Listen to each other’s talks.   If you’re from the same place, do you agree with each other’s ideas?   If you’re from different places, which facts do you think would be the most interesting or significant for a visitor? a LiSTEning 31 TCD  2/04    b a 32 TCD  2/05 b LanguagE FOCuS 33 Languages a SPEaKing 34 b Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv