Practice(P.91)

Topic: All foreign students have the same difficulty---the English barrier.

A. One area of difficulty is the words of English.
____1. Use the old word which people nowadays don't use anymore.
________a. Teacher and friends couldn't understand what I said.
____2. There are lots of words that combine to make different
_____ meaning.
________a. When the word "work" goes alone, it means to work, but
________ when it goes with the word "out", it means to exercise
________ physically.
B. Another difficulty is pronunciation.
____1. Some words that appear to be the same but have different
_____ pronunciation.
________a. The word "conduct" has two meaning.
____2. To understand an American also depends on his or her
____ accent.
________a. Northerners have a different accent from southerners.
C. The technological language is also part of the English barrier.
____1. Some foreign study in their majors find that they have to learn
____ technical terms and phrases, which may be about new
____ technology that doesn't exist in their countries.

Many foreign students find that learning English is the hardest part of college life.