The Role and Presence of Spanish in the US: Influence, Politics, and Immigration, Apuntes de Inglés

¡Descarga The Role and Presence of Spanish in the US: Influence, Politics, and Immigration y más Apuntes en PDF de Inglés solo en Docsity! 1. What is the presence of Spanish in the US? In the US there’s quite a lot of Spanish influence, since about a quarter part of the population speaks spanish 2. With information from the text, explain why it is wrong to claim that the Spanish language has never had a place in the US presidential scene. Claiming that this language has never been important in that área, is wrong because JF Kennedy’s wife encourage spanish speakers to vote them by talking in spanish and Barack Obama introduced Spanish language in the oficial White House website. 3. What role do immigrants play in relation to the Spanish language? There are immigrant constantly going to th US and increasing the spanish language 4. Name two decisions against Spanish taken under Trump’s administration. One of them is to remove the Spanish language links from the White House website and the other consist in the fact that people are afraid of sepaking Spanish 5. Fill in the gaps with the correct, most appropriate word in each case. (0,25 por acierto = 1 punto) Under Obama’s administration, the White House website not (A) only provided a route to a Spanish-language (B) translation of the White House webpage, but also to topics of interest (C) to the Hispanic community, (D) going from immigration to normalizing relations with Cuba. 6. Rephrase the following sentences so that their meaning is as similar to the original as possible. (0,25 por acierto = 1 punto) A) Her accent is so strong that some people can’t understand her. She speaks with such a strong accent that somo people cant undestand her. B) ‘Don’t forget to buy some milk, Amy,’ I said. I reminded Amy to buy some milk C) A young Hungarian scientist was redesigning the reactor. The reactor was redesigned by a Young Hungarian D) He worked very hard. That’s why he felt so tired. If he hadn’t worked very hard, he wouldn’t have felt so tired