An English Village in Spain

1. Listen to the conversation and do the test.

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1. What is the weather like in this place?
   1.   ?    foggy
   2.   ?    cloudy
   3.   ?    sunny
2. People in Gibraltar want to be
   1.   ?    independent
   2.   ?    British
   3.   ?    Spanish
3. What language do people there speak?
   1.   ?    Spanish
   2.   ?    English with Spanish accent
   3.   ?    both English and Spanish
4. How many people live in the village?
   1.   ?    less than a thousand
   2.   ?    more than a thousand
   3.   ?    a few hundred

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2. Now open the script and listen again.

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Luis: So It is like you see it and it is like on a stage. Something is not working here. I mean an English village should be cloudy, should be foggy, should be… not this starkly blue sky.
Mark: This is Gibraltar?
Luis: This is Gibraltar.
Mark: What is the situation there?
Luis: It is a British colony in south Spain.. It is a British colony in Europe. It is a colony of a European country in another European country.
Mark: And the people in Gibraltar; they don’t want to be Spanish and they don’t want to be British? They want to be independent?
Luis: They want to be independent.
Mark: Right. And they speak English?
Luis: They speak English with a very strong Andalucian accent. A very strong south Spanish accent and the slang they use is Spanish.
Mark: How many people?
Luis: A few thousand.
Mark: A few thousand. Wow! What an interesting place.
Luis: A weird place. Kind of surrealistic actually.
Mark: Right. An English village with the wrong-coloured sky.
Luis: (laughs) To me this is the most surrealistic part of the place because one doesn’t match the other. It is not working. You are missing the clouds, the fog, the…

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