= A J S A ee 4. FELADATSOR _ Olvasott széveg értése I. perc alatt végeztem ezzel a feladattal Read the article, then answer the questions in English. In this part of the exam you can use your dictionary. English Learning Students vs. Bilingual Children ----------- To learn English, we need words, Most English native speakers know between 12,000 and 20,000 words. Shakespeare used 31,534 words. And he probably knew more. How many words do you know? Naomi knows 95% of the words in Alice in Wonderland, She understands it | without a dictionary. If you know 95% of the words in a story, you can understand it. The key is 95%. Knowing 95% of the words means this: the story is not too easy and not too hard. It is just right. Ifyou know 95% of the words in a story, this is good for learning, The Penguin Publishing Company makes books called "graded readers.” These books come in many levels, so you can choose books that are just right for you. You can read one of these books per week, and this is a good way to learn English. Serious students need the top 5,000 English words. The top 1,000 | words cover 70% of texts and conversations. And the top 2,000 cover 80%. But the top 5,000 words cover 95%. That is, you can understand almost everything in English with the top 5,000 : } words. 5,000 words is a lot! But with the top 5,000 words, you can start college in America, | Not everybody needs to do that. But you can still grow your vocabulary every day. One of my | students learned 825 words in 10 weeks. She studied 8 minutes per day with Word Engine. Itis one good way to learn the top words and improve your English. ‘And now let's see how it works in a bilingual family. Being bilingual means being able to communicate almost perfectly in two languages and also knowing something about both cultures. If I take the example of a bilingual child it’s about being able to understand when itch automatically into speaking it someone is speaking another language and being able to with them, At two and a half our daughter has already understood that ‘Daddy speaks French | and Mummy speaks English: She has even picked up that Bai Yuoine speaks Chinese! I think t's very important for her to know that the cartoon character Noddy is also called Oui Oui | by her friends at playgroup. This is what makes it possible for her to communicate with the | people around her, In our case it is logical that with an English mother and French father our { children should be able to speak both languages to communicate, not only with us, but with | their grandparents and extended family. How do you raise a bilingual child? There may be a dominant language and this will normally { depend on the country you live in or the language your child uses most at school. However, it will also depend on what language is spoken in the home. We lived in France and spoke French { at home but I always speak to my children in English. What are the dangers? Grandparents can be unhappy if they don't understand what you're saying to their grandchild and worry that | they will never be able to communicate with them.a Oar SS 4. FELADATSOR 1. What do you have to do if you want to learn a foreign language? 2, How many words does Jack know if he is an average American man? 3, What does knowing 95% of the words in a story mean? 4, How many words do you have to know to understand everything in English? 5. _ Astudent was able to learn more than one hundred words a week. (Write only YES/NO.) 6. Whoare bilingual children? 7. What did the child understand when she was two and a half years old? (a, b, ¢) 8. Whyisit important to speak the parents’ languages? 9, What defines the dominant language? (a, b, c) 10. Why are the grandparents worried if their grandchildren are bilingual? ‘Answers in English 1 3p 2 3p 3. | a) b) 9 3p 4, 3p 5. 3p 6. 3p 7 |a) b) 9 3p 8. 3p 9% | a) b) oO 3p 10. 3p Correct answers: x3