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T S L N (The Social Language Network) is a new website for international students. It’s simple. 1 Register at TSLN . 2 Complete your profile. 3 Choose a language you want to practise. 4 Connect with a student who wants to practise your language. Communicate via telephone, email, text message or video conference. If you are a language teacher, click here. Call us for more information. T S L N now in the following countries:

A Brazil В Italy С France D Russia E China F Poland С Turkey H Japan I Britain

Vo cabulary : countries & nationalities Listening

1 Match the sentences 1-3 to the correct flag or flags A-l. 1 Look at the web page. What is TSLN?

1 The British and Russian flags are red, white and blue. □ □ 2 4 1.26 Listen to a telephone call to 2 The Chinese flag is red and yellow. □ TSLN. Underline the correct answer. 3 The Italian flag is red, white and green. □ 1 Mark is a language teacher / 2 Write the nationalities for these countries in the correct column language student. 2 Mark is a(n) German / English Brazil Greece Germany Poland Turkey France student. Ireland Japan Italy Britain Russia China 3 Mark’s first language is German / English. 4 He is 26 / 25 years old. -fflan -ish -ese other 5 He is American / Australian. Russian British Japanese Greek 6 The woman is from London / Sydney.

3 ® 1.25 Listen to the recording to checkyour answers. Listen and repeat.

4 Describe the other flags on the website. Use the words from exercise 1.

5 Work in pairs. Where are you from? What’s your nationality? Tell your partner.

Where are you from? I ’m from Poland. What’s your nationality? I ’m Polish. Personal application j 1b

% 1.26 Listen again. Complete the form for Mark. S peaking

1 Work in pairs, A and B. The Social Language Network - Personal Profile - rst name: Mark Sex: male □ female □ A: You want to be a member of TSLN. _ast name: Age: B: You work at TSLN.

_anguage student □ 13-16 □ Read the dialogue. Language teacher □ 17-25 □ B: Good afternoon, The Social Language Network. _anguage of study: German 26-35 □ A: , I want to be a member. B: Of course. What’s your name? -irst language: Enalish 36-45 □ A: ... Nationality: 46-55 □ Email address: [email protected] over 55□ 2 Continue the dialogue. Use the questions in Grammar exercise 2 to help you.

Grammar: verb to be - negative & questions Did you know ? With the verb to be, change the position of the subject and the verb to make a question. 1 Work in pairs. Read about social networks and You are a student. discuss the questions. X Are you a student?

In English, there are two kinds of questions: Wh- questions = questions with a question word Where are you from? tuenti Yes/no questions = questions with no question word Are you a student? Yes/no questions have a short answer. Yes, I am. No, I’mnot.

О S ee La n g u a g e R e f e r e n c e p a g e 20 The world of social networks Social networks are very popular on 1 Read about anotherTSLN member. Make questions and the now. is a big answers. online network, but other countries Ben Stark is a language student at university. He’s 21 years old. have social networks too. Tuenti He studies Chinese and Korean. Ben is from Los Angeles, in is a Spanish . Orkut the US. is a social network popular with 1 / Canadian? 3 / his last name Stark? Is he Canadian? No, he isn’t. 4 / from New York? Brazilians and Indians. V Kontakte is / American? 5 / a language student? a social network in Russia. is a Is he Am erican? Yes, he is. 6 / 43 years old? Japanese online social network.

Rearrange the words to make questions.

name what’s your ? last what’s name your ? Do you use an online social network? Which one? language teacher you are a ? What are your favourite ‘social’ ? you are a language student ? Do you have a profile on a website? are you old how ? you are from where ?

3 ® 1.27 Listen to the recording to check your answers. Repeat the questions.

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