How many foreign languages can you greet someone in?

Your boss tells you that you have been chosen to go on a six-month course to learn a completely new language. Do you

a) look for another job?

b) say they've chosen the wrong person?

с) worry a bit but reckon you'll cope?

d) long to get started?

You go to an evening class to learn a language. The class lasts two hours a week. List the sorts of practice you might do on your own at home.

How good are you at expressing yourself in your own language, both in speaking and in writing?

a) I can always put into words exactly what I want to say.

b) I don't know.

с) It depends on the situation.

d) People sometimes say I am not clear.

When did you last read a book for pleasure (in any language)?

a) yesterday

b) I can't remember.

c) last week

d) last month

Have you got

a) a bilingual dictionary (English into your language)?

b) a monolingual dictionary (English-English)?

c) both a bilingual and a monolingual dictionary?

d) no dictionary at all?

Read through this list of words, then write down as many of them as you can without looking.

pin church identify luxury accelerate carefully miscalculate occasional anxious knot daffodil impertinent

In one minute write a list of things you could do with a cabbage (apart from cooking or eating it).

In one minute write down as many reasons as you can why it might be useful to learn Eskimo.