4​Uzupełnij zdania synonimami wyrazów podanych w nawiasach.

1​I think you’re a bit too _ _ _ _ (slim). Put on a little weight.
2​This exercise is far too _ _ _ _ (difficult) for me. Could you help me?
3​Being a(n) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (sociable) person, he really likes entertaining others.
4​I like helping _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (old) people. They’re also really appreciative.
5​Some people in my class are really
_ _ _ _ _ _ (bright).



5 Przeczytaj artykuł i zdecyduj, czy podane zdania są pratwdziwe (true) czy fałszywe (false).

So where in the UK are you from?
The UK has so many regional accents and dialects that it is often very difficult for visitors to identify them. (1) _____ They usually know from a person’s accent if he or she is from the South, the Midlands, the North or London. But you need to know an area quite well to be more accurate. In fact, language experts can sometimes guess the area a person was born and brought up in to within five kilometres!
The English language is very rich in its variations, and most people are naturally proud of their local identity.
Many people who live outside the UK think that there are basically two accents in English: posh and working class! (2) _____ If you watch a night’s TV in the UK, you can hear many of our regional accents in the popular soap operas! There is the famous East End of London accent in EastEnders, the Yorkshire accent in Emmerdale and the Lancashire accent in Coronation Street. There’s a Scottish detective series called Taggart where you can hear the accent from Glasgow – which is very different from the accent spoken by the people of the capital, Edinburgh. Many of the more famous accents have special names too – Cockney for the East End of London, Geordie for Newcastle and Scouse for Liverpool.
Regional accents have developed over the centuries for a lot of different reasons and many of them are very difficult for people from outside the region to understand. (3) _____ Changes in language happen because people communicate with each other. If a community doesn’t have much contact with another community, then those changes don’t happen. (4) _____ For example, the accents and dialects of north and south Wales are different because of the mountains that divide them.
(5) _____ People are fighting to keep these alive. The Welsh language is still very strong. It is spoken throughout Wales and is taught in schools. There are TV programmes completely in Welsh and the road signs are in both languages. Gaelic is still alive and well in Scotland, and there is even a campaign to protect Cornish, a language that people in the West of England spoke until about 150 years ago.
So, what will happen to the languages and dialects of the UK over the next 100 years? (6) _____ Or will everyone sound the same? It will be interesting to see.

1 There is such a variety of accents in the UK that visitors don’t know where people are from. T/F
2 ​The soap operas in the UK don’t use regional accents.​T/F
3 ​The geography of a country influences how accents develop. T/F
4 ​People in Wales are fighting because of their language. ​T/F
5 ​Wales is the only part of the UK that has its own separate language. T/F
6 ​One language within the UK has been dormant for many years and may be used again. T/F