The audio text is very difficult, because it contains some legal language. Before you listen you may want to look up the meaning
of the following words: appropriations bill, Act, bilingual, appropriator, Office of Civil Rights, flawed, . Don't try to understand every little detail of the text. Focus on the specific listening tasks you are given, so that eventually you will get the text's main idea. The text is based on a written text which can be found on
http://www.heritage.org/Research/education/BG1206es.cfm
.
If you really find it too hard to understand the audio text, you can consult the written version on that site. For this first task the answer can be found near the beginning of the speech. The text answers the following questions: Why the English Language Fluency Act is needed.
/ Whom
it targets
/ What
it
will
do.
/ What
statistics
can
tell. / How
the
current
system
fails. / Which method is forced on people.