Though what does Llanelli make it unusual? Along with what does the local pub serve Polish lager? Perhaps what will the student want to do when the situation in Poland is better?

1. A little piece of Poland

2. ● Which communities that arrived from other
countries can be found in your town?
● Do they enrich the possibilities of life in your town
somehow? (New food products, life style…)
● Which communities arrived to Britain from some
other countries?
● Where is Wales?

3. ● What do you think the text will speak about?

4. Do you know the meaning of this words?
• Settle
• Settler
• Lager
• Elect a party for government
• Lawyer
• Academic qualifications
• Trade
• Coal miner
• Wave of migration
• Move to a place

5. ● Settle – migrate to a place and organize your life
there
● Settler – people who migrate and stay
● Lager - Kind of beer. a beer stored from six weeks to
six months for aging before use.
● Elect a party for government – choose by vote
● Lawyer - a person whose profession is to act for
●
clients in legal matters.
● Academic qualifications – university degree,
requirement for a job (titulación)
● Trade – comercio
● Coal miner – minero de carbón
● Wave of migration – ola
● Move to a place – go to live there

6. ● What do you think the text will speak about?

7. A little pice of Poland
Llanelli is a small town in Wales much like any other small Welsh town. There is one thing that makes it
unusual, though. 2,000 Polish _____________ have settled there in the last few years, and the population of
40,000 is now 5% Polish. Llanelli now has a delicatessen that sells only Polish goods, and the local pub serves Polish
lager along with more _____________ Welsh beers.
Poles have been coming to Britain for a long time and there are Polish _____________ all over the
country. In 1939, at the beginning of the Second World War, thousands of Poles escaped the Nazis and came to
Britain. When the war began, Britain had a shortage of pilots and many Polish pilots joined the British air force.
When the war finished, a communist _____________ was elected in Poland and large numbers of Poles
decided not to return home. Many of them were doctors, lawyers and engineers, but they found it difficult to find
work because the British didn’t recognise their _____________. As an alternative, they found work in the building
trade or became coal miners. Some started building trade of their own, and there are still many Polish clockmakers
and shoe repairers around the country.
Now, at the beginning of the 21st century, there is another wave of _____________. Poland became a
member of the EU in 2004, and that gave Poles the freedom to work in Britain. _____________in Poland was high
at that time, and many Poles took the opportunity to move to a place where there were more jobs and they could
earn more money.
In Llanelli, the relationship betweent he locals and the Polish _____________ is good. Student Ana
Kurek says, «There will always be some problems when a large group of new people arrive in a small town, but the
local people here are generally very friendly and I feel at home. Perhaps, when the situation in Poland is better, I’ll
want to go home, but for now I am very happy.»

8. Inmigrants
traditional
communities
government
qualifications
migration
Unemployment
settlers

9. Which of the following words do you think will appear and will
not appear in the text?

10. Dictation
Llanelli is a small town in Wales much like any other
small Welsh town. There is one thing that makes it
unusual, though. 2,000 Polish inmigrants have settled
there in the last few years, and the population of
40,000 is now 5% Polish. Llanelli now has a
delicatessen that sells only Polish goods, and the local
pub serves Polish lager along with more traditional
Welsh beers.

11. Answer whether the next questions are True or False:
● The Poles arrived to Britain running away from the Nazis.
● The Poles stayed in Britain to avoid the nazi government elected
in Poland.
● The Poles worked as doctors, lawyers and engineers
when their qualifications were recognized in Britain.
● Many Poles are going back to to Poland.
● They live in conflict with the locals.

12. Write questions for the next sentences:
● “2,000 Polish inmigrants have settled there in the last few years.”
Who have settled there in the last few years?
Where have the inmigrants settled?
When have 2,000 Polish inmigrants settled there?

13. Write questions for the next sentences:
● “Llanelli now has a delicatessen that sells only Polish goods.”
● “Poles have been coming to Britain for a long time.”
● “Large numbers of Poles decided not to return home.”
● “ In Llanelli, the relationship betweent he locals and the Polish
inmigrants is good.”
¿…?

14. Make questions with the next words from the text:
Though
(“Llanelli is a small town in Wales much like any other small Welsh town.
There is one thing that makes it unusual, though.”)
Along with
(“…the local pub serves Polish lager along with more traditional Welsh
beers.”)
Perhaps
(“Perhaps, when the situation in Poland is better, I’ll want to go home.”)