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Learning a language in the classroom is never easy and, quite _____, it’s not the way that most people would choose to learn if they had other _____. Having said that, there are plenty of reasons for keeping languages on the school curriculum. For one thing, a fair number of students go on to take jobs in business and commerce that require a ______ knowledge of a second language. When you talk to young ______ in top companies, it seems that they had a career plan from the start; they were motivated to find additional things to put on their CVs – and of course language is one of those added, but ______ extras.

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The assignment that I’m going to set for the holiday period is one that we’ve given students for a number of years. It’s quite _____ and will allow you to get out and about – it’s no good being shut up in your rooms all the time! It does have a written ______ , too. Um, basically it’s a data gathering exercise and there are two choices with regard to how you ______ the data. We’ll go through those in a moment. I’m also going to give you a link to an internet site that is – well it’s critical that you ______ this before you do anything, as it provides a lot of guidance on data presentation, both in terms of how you plot it – its diagrammatic form and also its ______ , which has to be clear.