2. Choose to write or talk about the following ideas. If you decide to write show the writing to your teacher for feedback. If you choose to talk, keep a note on your difficulties and solve them when you finish either by using a dictionary or asking someone.

Why do this? Thinking and talking will bring to mind your background knowledge on the actual topic. Having all this knowledge in mind will hopefully help you understand the text better.

In my own country/town, are there any immigrants?
Where do most of them come from? Why did they come in the first place?
How do people (and me personally) feel about them?
Explain the proverb "When in Rome do as the Romans do". In the context on immigration what are the pros and the cons of assuming that kind of attitude?