Answer the questions to the text. Find countries and their flags

Your home-work!!!

Find countries and their flags

LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

It is an autumn evening, a quarter to eight. John Brown

came from his trip to Italy only yesterday. He studied Italian literature

and gave some lectures on English literature in Rome University.

He is giving a ring to his friend Trevor Dick, who is going to

Italy in a couple of months.

J.: Hello, Trevor, how are you?

Т.: Speaking. Who is it?

J.; It's me, John Brown, Don't you recognize me?

Т.: Oh! I haven't spoken to you for about two months. No wonder

I can't recognize your voice on the phone. How are you

getting on?

J.: Home at last! I am deathly tired after the trip. I came back

only yesterday.

Т.: Awfully kind of you to ring me up immediately. How was

your trip?

J.: Marvellous, except for my not speaking Italian. I wish I had

taken at least a fewMessons.

Т.: You've said it. That's why I have made up my mind to learn

Italian.

J.: Have you started yet?

Т.: Yes. I have been learning it for a month now. Sometimes it

seems to me, 1 just can't learn it. I try very hard, but all the

same make a lot of mistakes. I can say only a few simple

phrases without mistakes.

J.: Don't gi,ve up! The devil is not so black as he's painted. Learning

any language takes a lot of effort and time.

Т.: My teacher says the same. She thinks I am making good

progress.; •

J.: Who is she?

Т.: She is Italian. Married to a British journalist. She has been

living here for fifteen years already.

J.: How many lessons a week do you take?

Т.: Three lessons a week. Each lesson lasts an hour and a half.

J.: Is it expensive?

Т.: The price is quite reasonable.

J.: May I join you? I hope to go to Rome next year again. At

least they invited me to come.

Т.: I'll talk it over with my teacher and let you know. Anyway I

have a very good textbook only recently brought from Rome.

J.: Fine.

Т.: I am sure you have better things to do the first day at home

than chatting to me. Let's meet tomorrow in our favourite

pub and discuss you trip.

J.: All right. See you tomorrow then.

Answer the questions to the text.

1) From what country has John Brown just returned?

2) Why is John so tired?

3) Why do the friends decide to learn Italian?

4) Who is Mr Dick's teacher?,'

5) What do the friends decide to do?

How can I do it?

— How did you learn French?

— I suppose, I learned it in Paris. But you could learn it very

soon if you really tried.

— But how? I've done French at school for ages, and I simply

can't read it, though I 've often tried.

— What you learned at school is only to handle the tools — you've

got to learn to use them for yourself. You take "The Three

musketeers", read through a few pages, marking the words

you don't know, look them up and try to remember them.

Don't linger over them too much, but try and get interested

in the story.,

— And what then?

— You'll feel you are making good progress long before you read

it up to the end.

Vocabulary

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