Wider World 1 Unit 8

Listen to an English language teacher and three students and choose the correct answer.

1 In the lesson, the teacher wants to talk about                                          [living in Greece., learning a different alphabet., difficulties learning another language.]

2 In Greece, it wasn’t easy for the teacher to                   [talk to people., write emails., make phone calls.]

3 Lucy’s dad                           [could speak in German., learned German for work., lived in Germany.]

4 People in Glasgow                                 [sometimes use different words., are very confident., say ‘Sorry’ all the time.]

5 The Spanish textbook                  [was old., was funny., was interesting.]

Complete the sentences with the words below. There are two extra words.

call / chat / flag / language / letter / river / sea / speaker / video / west

0 I live in a village 200 km west of the capital city.

1 The colours of the Japanese      are white and red.

2 Ella doesn’t often make a phone      . She sends messages.

3 Tom speaks good Spanish, but he’s not a native         .

4 We      online every week with our cousins in Canada.

5 Do you have to write a        ? Why don’t you send an email?

6 I like talking to my friends by       call. I like to see them.

7 Is the Seine the longest       in France?

Complete the words in the sentences.

0 The population of Italy is about 60 million.

1 An o       is bigger than a sea.

2 I like learning new v            _. Today we learned how to say ‘house’ in Spanish.

3 I like learning new words, but learning g         is difficult!

4 You can post a T       on Twitter.

5 I usually send a t      message to my friends. I like using emojis!

6 Sylvie speaks German and English fluently. She’s b           .

7 I enjoy learning f          languages.

8 Everest is the highest m          in the world.