Polyglots and Frontliners

What is a polyglot? Can you give a definition?

 

Here's a listening exercise for you to do and learn about it: Is learning languages good for us? (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

 

The advantages of being able to speak several languages are so many. You are never afraid to travel because you can make yourself understood wherever you go and you can understand people and at the same time be more open and learn about other cultures. If you are student, apart from being most useful for your Curriculum Vitae, it enables you to read any bibliography and later it is so much easier to find a job. Therefore, the advantages are countless.

4 BENEFITS OF BEING A POLYGLOT (Seekapor.com, an educational companion)

Some activities for you to do: 

• The English We Speak : Mic drop   (BBC Learning English) What does 'to roast someone' mean?
  

• English with Lucy:  How to learn fluent English on your own at home  (5-step study plan)

• And who are the frontliners here in Spain? The English We Speak : Frontliner   (BBC Learning English) What does 'to roast someone' mean?

• English in a Minute:  3 ways to pronounce '-ED' (BBC Learning English)

 

 

Your English teacher always wants to be a polyglot, a frontliner, an icebreaker... people even Call me The Breeze + (with lyrics) from the Mediterranean Sea (J.J. Cale), but here's another version with Eric Clapton>>>>

 

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