It looks like British parents are having problems teaching their children to talk (read full story) and at the same time the government says that primary school children should learn Mandarin and Arabic (read full story).Well, you can't complain too much here, don't you think so?
Language note: Remember that one of the meanings of the phrasal 'to make up' is to invent a story, an excuse, etc. often in order to deceive. You say 'you couldn't make it up' when you want to express disbelief or incredulity. The parents in the cartoon can't believe what they are reading.
2 comments:
Well, the question is: is english the first family language of all those children concerned by that study? In London there are primary schools where the most talked languages are somali and urdu!!!!
anna miquel
No matter what your mother tongue is, it sounds as if two departments of the British government are somehow not connected -or maybe it's just that they don't understand each other well in their own (English?)mother tongue.
Mariona
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