UNIT 1 LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

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Read the text and find out what the new language law in Quebec says.

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Quebec's Language Laws
Walking around the streets of the world's second largest francophone city, it’s difficult
to believe that laws are needed to guarantee the continuing use of French. Most passers-by are

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speaking French, most of the shop names and advertisements are in French, and French is the
language of business and commerce.

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While English options are given on telephone call centre lines, French is the first language
used when you get to speak to anyone. But many Quebeckers feel that they continue to fight
for their language in the one major area of North America where English isn't the dominant
language. As a result there's a language charter which says that signs must use bigger writing
for the French version and that shopkeepers should address their customers in French first.
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Most children go to French schools and only those whose parents were born in the province
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can go to English-speaking ones.

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(From BBC Learning English by Mike Fox)

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