Here are the answers to some questions. Work out the questions

A few million.

Because it is the mother tongue of many countries outside England.

In the seventeenth century.

75%

60%

Yes, it had a lot of inflections.

Simplicity of form, flexibility, and openness of vocabulary.

Mandarin Chinese.

4. What do you think about the text?

1 Does the text come from

a brochure for an English language school?

a preface to a book on modern language teaching?

a dictionary?

an encyclopaedia?

2 The text says that it is because of the United States that English is a world language. Why?

3 Which of the three groups of English speakers do you belong to? What is your reason for learning?

4 What words are there in your language that have been borrowed from other languages?

5. What is the most important for you in learning a language? Put the list in order of importance, 1 being the most important.

learning grammar

learning vocabulary

speaking and being corrected

speaking and not being corrected all the time

listening

reading

writing

pronunciation practice

6. Answer the questions on the text:

Why is human language the most astonishing creation of man?

What can you tell about the appearance of language?

What do you know about English (Ukrainian, Russian)?

What do you call people who speak many languages?

Why has the English language become a world language?

What English speaking people groups do you know? How are they classified?

How many countries do you know where English is spoken?

How many languages are being spoken in the world today?

Why is it necessary to have practical command of foreign languages?

Why can people now communicate by words much better than they did it in the remote past?