外研版高中英語選修9module4languagesoftheword(編輯修改稿)
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【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 t do you think the numbers after the names of the languages mean ? ( a) the number of people who live in a country where the language is spoken? ( b) the number of people who speak the language worldwide? 2. which of the names of the languages are also nationalities? The key: 1. ( b) 2. 2,4,5,8,9,10 Step 2 Read the passage and check your answer to Activity 1 Step 3 Read the passage again and choose the corrects answer. 1. The western name for Putonghua ____________. ( a) is the transl ation 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 bee 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 nonArabic 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. establish expand furthermore include overtake romantic roots special status. 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 Inter websites are in English. Unlike French, English doesn’t have its (5) ___________ in Latin, although there are a lot of English words which e from Latin. English is not as (6) ____________ a language as French, but it has (7) _________________ itself as the world’s main language of international munication however , the number of English speakers probably won’t
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