- •What makes a good language learner? quiz
- •Interpret your score
- •Discussion
- •Learning Languages Vocabulary
- •The future of english
- •Euro-english?
- •Imperial english
- •Imperial English: The Language of Science?
- •English as a world language
- •Shakespeare bilingual absurd
- •1. The development of English
- •2. English in North America
- •3. English in the Southern Hemisphere
- •4. Commercial expansion
- •Speaking
- •Listening
- •Render in English:
- •Can you speak english?
- •What a language!
- •The Fumblerules of Grammar
- •British english – and the languages of the uk
- •Insularity and complacency are leading youngsters to reject learning foreign tongues, raisins problems for the future, writes John o'Leary
- •Let’s recall the spell guide
- •Language and nation
- •Listening
- •Миллионы на борьбу с английским
- •Study the following text
- •Render in English
- •A year in provence
- •Is American English taking over from stuffy English English as the more vigorous language? Malcolm Bradbury finds a way through the verbal jungle
- •The transatlantic connection
- •The transatlantic connection guide
- •Belarusian Alphabets
- •Белорусский язык как носитель духовной культуры
- •Body talk
- •Actions Speak Louder Than Words
- •Saying what you think
- •Getting what you want
- •How to get what you want
- •Muscles of the Face (facial muscles)
- •The Natural World
- •Getting to know you
- •Practical psychology
- •Multiple-choice options
- •Information Check
- •Vocabulary Check
- •Give English equivalents to the following American words and word combinations:
- •Look through the row of synonyms and exclude the odd one out:
- •Give antonyms to the following:
- •Fill in the blanks:
- •Translate from Russian into English using your active vocabulary:
- •Translate from English into Russian:
- •Complementary reading the english language
- •Varieties of english
- •Tapescripts
- •Literature
Shakespeare bilingual absurd
5. Form derivatives to the words in the table:
Noun |
Verb |
Derivative |
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Inflect |
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Contribution |
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Simplify |
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6. Write the correct combination of the verb and the particle:
1) fall |
a) out |
2) die |
b) to |
3) contribute |
c) into |
Highlight these phrasal verbs in the article, comment on their meaning.
7. Show the difference between:
establishement – settlement
proposition – preposition
monolingual – bilingual – multilingual
8. Compile a list of words and word-combinations which characterize the status of the English language in the world. E.g … one of the major languages in the world.
COMPREHENSION
9. Explain the meaning of the following:
mother tongue
purist
to resist the arrival of the English language
to give the English language its present standing
to involve the free admission of words
FOLLOW-UP
10. Do a mini-research:
Consult the dictionary and find the examples to illustrate the basic characteristic of the English language.
Compile a scheme, according to which the English language, in your opinion, is going to develop in future.
ENGLISH ROUND THE WORLD
Do you know how widespread the English language today? Study the following list of countries in which English is spoken either as the mother tongue (M), as the second language (S), or learnt as a foreign language (F). Decide in which way English is used in each of the countries to complete the chart.
COUNTRY |
M/S/F |
COUNTRY |
M/S/F |
Australia |
M |
Kenya |
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Burma |
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Madagascar |
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Cameroon |
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Mexico |
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Canada |
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Morocco |
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Denmark |
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New Zealand |
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Ghana |
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Pakistan |
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Guyana |
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Philippines |
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Hong Kong |
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Saudi Arabia |
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Iceland |
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Singapore |
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India |
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Spain |
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Indonesia |
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South Africa |
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Ireland |
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Thailand |
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Israel |
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United Kingdom |
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Jamaica |
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United States |
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Japan |
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Zimbabwe |
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READING SKILLS
Finding specific information: read the following text and check the answers to the first task (not all the answers are in the text).