Are People Who Speak More Than One Language Smarter?

You are going to 

• watch a video and do a true / false comprehension exercise
• write about learning a foreign language

Discuss

• Are people who speak more than one language smarter? 
• What do you think? Is it true?
• Why would people who speak more than one language be smarter?

Watch the clip and find out.






Now do this true or false exercise

Writing

Choose 1

• What are the advantages and disadvantages of learning a foreign language?

• Learning a foreign language offers an insight into how people from other cultures think and see the world. The teaching of a foreign language should be compulsory at all primary schools. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this view? (IELTS)