Read the text below. Match choices (A-H) to (1-5). There are three choices you do not need to use. Write your an swers on the separate answer sheet. Task 1
HOW TO LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE: FIVE SECRETS
They say that children learn languages the best. But that doesn't mean that adults should give up. We asked some of the polyglots in TED's Open Translation Project to share their secrets to mastering a foreign language. Their best strate gies distil into seven basic principles:
1 Decide on a simple, attainable goal to start with so that you don't feel overwhelmed. German translator Judith Matz suggests: "Pick up 50 words of a language and start using them on people and then slowly start picking up grammar.
2 Elisabeth Buffard, who in her 27 years of teaching English has always seen consistency as what separates the most successful students from the rest. Find a language habit that you can follow even when you're tired, sick or madly in love.
3 The more you invite a foreign language into your daily life, the more your brain will consider it something useful and worth caring about. Use every opportunity to get exposed to the new language. Label every object in your house in this language, read kids' books written in it, watch subtitled movies, listen to talks, or live-narrate parts of your day to an imaginary foreign friend. A funny thing like resetting the language on your phone can help you learn new words right away. Do it for chang ing the language on your browser. Or you can seek out more structured learning opportunities online. Dutch translator Els De Keyser recommends Duolinguo for its gamified approach to grammar, and Anki for memorizing vocabulary with its 'intelligent' flashcards.
5 To Spanish translator Sebastián Betti, learning a language has always been about focusing on the experiences that the new language would open up, from 'visiting theme parks, attending air shows, enjoying cowboy poetry and folk-rock festivals, to learning about photo-essay techniques. In other words, he thinks of fun things that he wanted to do anyway, and makes them into a language-learning opportunity.