Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES
1. What do these speakers think about accents?
2. What do you notice about accents?
3. In your experience, what is the hardest thing 
about learning English?
4. Do you speak diff erently, depending on whom 
you are talking to?
5. How many languages do you speak? When and 
how did you learn them?
6. Identify three words or phrases in this chapter 
that are new to you, and write a sentence with 
each one.

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THE USE OF LANGUAGE
PART II
In this chapter, interviewees continue to share 
their perspectives on the role of language in their 
lives.
1. AMERICAN ENGLISH/BRITISH ENGLISH
MAN:
I, of course, since, India is, we have been ruled by 
Britishers, so I know English pretty well. And, uh, I know 
In—, few Indian languages. I mean, like one of them is, 
uh, Hindi, and I also know, uh, Punjabi—that’s-that’s 
where, uh, my family belongs to, Punjab, the north part 
of India—and a little bit of Urdu.
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