Пояснения к тексту. 1) legislation – законодательство, законопроект;

1) legislation – законодательство, законопроект;

2) to promote – способствовать, содействовать.

Ответьте на следующие вопросы к тексту.

1. How many languages used in the EU are considered to be official and working languages?

2. Whose responsibility is language policy?

3. What is the most widely spoken mother tongue in the EU?

4. What is the status of the English language in the EU?

5. What language family do most official languages of the EU belong to?

6. What alphabet are most EU official languages written in?

7. What other languages are there in the EU besides the 23 official languages?

2. Заполните пропуски, используя слова под чертой (слова даны в нужной форме):

1. Everyone in the European Parliament is entitled … in their own native language and to have this … into other languages.

2. The European Parliament … over 4000 interpreters at a cost of almost one billion ….

3. One of the problems is that sometimes translating needs to be done across … languages, due to a lack of … between certain languages (e.g. Greek-Danish, Portuguese-Greek).

4. Besides many regional languages, a broad variety of languages from other parts of the world are spoken by … communities in the member states.

5. Turkish, Russian, Urdu, Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Ukrainian, Punjabi and Balkan … are spoken in many parts of the EU.

6. Migrant languages have no formal … or recognition in the EU or in the EU countries.

Interpreted, immigrant, intermediate, to communicate, employs, interpreters, euros, status, languages.

3. Отметьте утверждения, которые не соответствуют содер­жанию текста.

1.There are 23 member-countries in the European Union and the same number of languages is spoken on its territory.

2.It is strictly banned to speak any other foreign languages except officially recognized languages.

3.The number of people speaking minority languages is not as large as the number of people speaking official languages.

4.Only five regional languages can be used by European Union citizens in dealing with the main European organizations.

5.All the documents don't have to be translated into 23 official languages.

6.Although English is the most popular language it is spoken by less than a half of population in the European Union.

7.Widely spoken official languages of the European Union belong to the same language family.