LISTENING PAGE 17
- Anyone who has a(n) _____________________ accent is a challenge for non-native speakers.
- After watching No country for old men, Joanna still has no idea what Tommy Lee Jones says in the _____________________ of the film.
- When Joanna was at Warsaw University, she did a comparative Polish – English _____________________course.
4. After making great efforts, she sounded like the _____________________. - When Joanna arrived in Britain people used to say she sounded _____________________.
- Joanna finds easier to understand _____________________ whose accent is closer to the standard pronunciation.
- She says that after listening to strong accents for quite a long time, you get used to the _____________________ and you start to understand people better.
- People who come from Nordic countries have got a(n) ________________________ and _____________________ way to speak English.
- Joanna _____________________ having her English corrected.
- If the people who correct her are nice and friendly, Joanna _____________________ listens to them. When they are not, she thinks they are just _____________________.
- What Joanna finds challenging about English is all the _____________________ she is always learning.
- Joanna thinks that speaking either English or Polish changes _____________________ in a way.
- Joanna tends to be more _____________________ when she writes an email in Polish than when she does in English.
- The most traumatic experience Joanna lived took place when she went to a small village in Scotland and realized she could only understand _____________________ of what people were saying.
- The word bairn refers to a(n) _____________________ in Scotland.
KEY
- BROAD REGIONAL
- CLOSING SCENES
- PHONETICS
- OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY / OED
- POSH
- ANYONE / ANY SPEAKER
- MELODY
- CLEAR – (BEAUTIFULLY) ARTICULATED
- APPRECIATES
- WILLINGLY – MEAN
- WORDS / VOCABULARY
- HER BEHAVIOUR / THE WAY SHE COMMUNICATES
- DIRECT
- 30%
- CHILD
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