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Statements:

  1. In Shakespeare’s time English was spoken all over the world.

  2. English has become a world language mainly because of the United States.

  3. People speaking English fall into two groups.

  4. One person of seven in the world speaks perfect English.

  5. English is a closed language, it has not borrowed words from many other languages.

  6. Many nouns and verbs have the same forms in English.

  7. 80 % of English vocabulary is of foreign origin.

  8. English has borrowed and continues to borrow words from Russian, Ukrainian.

  9. The borrowed words have standard pronunciation.

  10. Each English-speaking country can inject its culture into the vocabulary.

Supplementary vocabulary:

cognate – слово загального походження

Hebrew – іврит

penetration – проникнення

to guard – охороняти, оберігати

fairly - достатньо, у певній мірі

flexible – гнучкий

2. Make up 10 questions on the text and let your partners answer them.

Text 1 C

1. Skim the paragraphs of the text and find answers to the questions:

Language

  1. How is a language often called?

Language is human speech, either spoken or written. Language is the most common system of communication. It allows people to talk to each other and to write their thoughts and ideas. The word language may be used to mean any system of communication, such as traffic lights or Indian smoke signals. But the origin of the word shows its basic use. It comes from the Latin word lingua, meaning tongue. And a language still is often called a tongue.

  1. What has language made possible?

Wherever there is a human society, there is a language. Most forms of human activity depend on the cooperation of two or more people. A common language enables human beings to work together in an infinite variety of ways. Language has made possible the development of advanced, technological civilization. Without language for communication, there would be no science, religion, commerce, government, art, literature, and philosophy.

  1. How many languages have a million or more speakers?

According to linguists (scholars who study language), there are about 6,000 languages spoken in the world today. This number does not include dialects (local forms of a language). Many languages are spoken only by small groups of a few hundred or a few thousand people. There are more than 200 languages with a million or more speakers. Of these languages at least 24 have over 50 million speakers each: Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Malay-Indonesian, Mandarin, Marathi, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Wu. Hindi and Urdu are sometimes grouped together as Hindustani.

  1. How do children acquire a command of a language?

Young children quickly acquire command of a language when they have regular contacts with fluent speakers of that language. Children listen to older people, imitate them, and gradually master a group of sounds used in the language. They also learn to associate particular words, such as "dog", "black", or "bark", with objects, ideas, and actions. At the same time, youngsters learn to make up sentences that other speakers accept as correct. By the age of 5 or 6, children usually have a command of the basic sound and grammar patterns of their native language. Then they are able to communicate well enough for most of their own practical purposes. In school, they learn how to express themselves more precisely both in speaking and writing about more complex matters.

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