Languages of the World教案

( a) is the translation of the chinese word for magistrate.
(b) indicated that the language was used by imperial mandarins.
(c) was used in the 19th  century.
2. 750 million is the total number of people who speak english ___________.
( a) as a first language
( b) as a first or second language
( c) as a foreign language
3. hindustani will never become the first world language because ________________.
( a) the population of india will never overtake the population of china.
(b) it includes a huge number of dialects.
( c) too many people speak english in india.
4. there are speakers of arabic in non-arabic because______________.
( a ) there are millions of muslims north africa and the middle east.
( b) it’s one of the world’s oldest languages
( c) it’s the language of muslims.
5. spanish, french, italian and portuguese______________.
( a) have their roots in the same language
( b) are more or less the same language
( c) have a few similar words.
6. the use of portuguese expanded _____________
( a) because explorers used it
 ( b) when it became the official language of brazil
 ( c) after portugal independent
7. the percentage of bengali speakers in bangladesh ___________.
( a ) is greater than the percentage of bengali
( b) is less than the percentage of bengali speakers in india.
( c) is less than the percentage of its speakers in various other countries.
8. the three language spoken in the caribbean are __________.
( a) spanish, arabic and english
( b) french , spanish and english
( c) french, english and portuguese.
the key:
1. b 2. b 3. c 4. c 5. a 6. a 7. c 8. c
step 4
complete the passage with the correct form of the words and expressions in the box.
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the total of 750 million english speakers (1)_____________ people who speaker it ad a first or second language but not people who speak it as a foreign language.  in some countries, english has (2)__________, which usually means that business is done in english. (3) _____, the use of english has (4) ___________ even more because 80% of  internet websites are in english. unlike french, english doesn’t have its (5) ___________ in latin, although there are a lot of english words which come from latin.  english is not as (6) ____________ a language as french, but it has (7) _________________ itself as the world’s main language of international communication however , the number of english speakers probably won’t (8) ___________the number of speakers of putonghua.