As a university professor at an arts school with five years of teaching experience, I decided to _________ online classes to gain some knowledge of Arabic last year.

My teacher and I would meet a few times a month to practice _________. During our communication, he also _________ details of his life. Gradually, the _________ of the first few lessons gave way to more familiarity and _________. I stopped feeling awkward and began to open up about my own background and my _________ with Arabic. “Don’t worry; I’m here to teach you. You’re hardworking and I’m sure you’ll do well in it,” said my teacher. I had comforted my students with _________ words in my own teaching. It was strange to hear them _________ at me. The tables had turned.

“You are _________!” my teacher would say when I used __________ vocabulary or expressions. When I heard these three words, I got a feeling of __________. It also surprised me that my confidence could be encouraged by such __________ praise. That was when I became aware how rarely I had praised my students. I had thought much praise made them __________. But now, I had a change of heart and __________ that these plain words can mean a lot. Words __________. And now I become more thoughtful when I use them.

Foreign visitors to the UK might be disappointed when they learn that not everyone there speaks like Harry Potter and his friends.

Many non-Brits think that everyone in Britain speaks with what is known as a Received Pronunciation（RP, 标准发音）______ , also called “the Queen’s English”.

____ many people do indeed talk this way, most Britons speak in their own regional（地区的）accents.

Scouse, Glaswegian and Black Country – from Liverpool, Glasgow and the West Midlands – are just three of the ______ non-RP accents British people speak with. There are even differences in accents between towns or cities just 30 kilometers ______ .

But besides disappointing foreign visitors, not speaking in an RP accent may mean a British person is judged, or even treated ______ , in their everyday life.

In a 2015 study by The University of South Wales, UK, videos of people reading a passage in three different UK accents were shown to a second group of people. The group then ______ how intelligent they thought the readers sounded.

The lowest-rated accent was Brummie, ______ to people from Birmingham, a city whose accent is considered working class.

“Specific regional accents are often seen as inferior（低下的）and belonging to groups lacking in honesty” Lance Workman, leader of the study, told The Telegraph.

“It is ______ that many of those with regional accents are still hitting a glass ceiling.”

But English-learners who want to sound more British shouldn’t go straight for RP, ______ many do. In fact, doing the opposite may even give you a(n) ______ .

Kong Seong-jae, 25, better known as “Korean Billy”, is an internet celebrity（名人）from Seoul. After studying in the UK, he ______ several regional accents. He’s now famous for his online videos, where he ______ the various accents he’s learned.

“British people ______ get really excited when I use some of their local dialect words, and they become much more ______ . I think it makes a bit of bond（情感纽带）between local people and foreigners to speak in their local accent,” he told TEENS.

So if you’re working on ______ your British accent, try to speak like someone from Liverpool, Glasgow or Birmingham. You may not sound like Harry Potter, but you are likely to make more friends.

Do you know how many languages there are in the world? There are about 1500, but many of them are not considered very _______. English is considered one of most important languages because many people _______ it, not only in England and America,   _______ in other countries of the world. About 200 000 000 speak it _______ their own language, and another 230 000 000 use it as _______ language. It is _______   to say how many people are learning it. _______ boys and girls in schools are trying to do so.

Many _______ children study French. French is also a very important language. _______ children study German, Russian, Japanese and Chinese.

Which is the best ________ to learn a language? We know that we all learnt ________ language well when we were ________. If we learn a second language in the ________ way, it may not seem so difficult. What does a small child do? It ________ what people say, and it tries to guess what it hears. When it wants something, it has to ________ it. It is using the language, ________ and talking in it all of the time. If people use a second language ________, they will learn it ________.

In school, you learn to read, to write ,to hear and to ________.It is best to learn all new words through the ________. You can read them, spell them and speak them later.