Exercise 4 Listen to the dialogue and decide if these statements are true (T) or false (F).

Good day, mate! I'm Richard from Australia. You must be the new Chinese student.

Yes, I am. My name's Liang Weimin.

I hope you don't mind me asking but you don't sound English. What's your native language?

Richard's native language is English but because he comes from Australia, he has a different English accent.

I'm from America so I have an American English accent. By the way, I'm Pam.

Nice to meet you, Pam and Richard. I thought that every native speaker spoke English like the BBC World Service reporters!

Well I do. I'm Robert and I'm from England. People have different English accents depending on where they come from. For example, British people say "water" and "tomato" but Americans say "water" and "tomato"!