International Languages and English

There are approximately 5000 different languages and many dialects or local versions of major languages in the world. The oldest written language is Egyptian, but now Egyptian is not a widely spread language.

The most popular languages are Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish and Russian.

The most difficult languages are North American Indian language of Minnesota and Oregon, Tabassaran, Esqimaux and Chinese.

The simplest language is Esperanto. It was invented by a Polish doctor, Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof in 1887. This language was invented to be a world language because of its simplicity, but now only 10 million people speak Esperanto.

Now the world language is English. It is one of 7 international languages, one of 6 languages of the United Nations, common language of NATO, aviation language and the first language of international sport. English is an official language of UK, America, Canada, Australia and other English-speaking countries. But English in the UK is not the only language people are speaking. There are a lot of minority languages in the UK. There are about 80,000 Gaelic speakers and over half a million Welsh speakers. There are also some other languages that came with the emigrants. These languages are: Bengali, Turkish, Gujarati, Spanish, Greek, Urdu, Punjabi, Chinese, Italian, Arabic, French and Portuguese.

There is also a great amount of English dialects. There are some idioms connected with languages: Pidgin English – dialect, spoken by people, who came to Great Britain from Papua New Guinea and the Far East for trading; broken English means badly spoken, corrupted language; Queen’s English – correct, clear and intelligible English.

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I. Выберите из предложенного списка имена существительные и запишите их в форме множественного числа с переводом на русском языке.

Education, life, educated, person, knows, thing, learn, discovery, pupil, knowledge, subject, school, opportunity, result, process, capacity.

II. Выберите нужную форму глагола to be (am, is, are). Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. Education ___very important in our life.

2. An educated person ____ one who knows a lot about many things.

3. A more general aim _____ to make our intellectual and cultures.

4. There _____ many reasons why we begin to study foreign languages.

II. Переведите предложения на английский язык.

1. В журнале есть информация о предстоящих выборах.

2. Весной деревья и кустарники в цвету.

3. Фотография моей подруги стоит на столе.

4. В городе находится несколько исторических памятников.

III. Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в настоящем, прошедшем или будущем времени группы Indefinite.

1. She (not to get) letters from her parents last month.

2. What you (to do) yesterday evening?

3. It (to sound) interesting.

4. I (to visit) Paris next month.

IV. Переведите на английский язык.

1. Телевизор находится справа от двери.

2. В стране большие запасы нефти и угля.

3. В том лесу были какие-нибудь грибы и ягоды?

4. В это время на улице не будет автобусов.

V. Из данных предложений выпишите и переведите на русский язык те, в которых есть модальные глаголы или их эквиваленты.

I was busy yesterday. I had to get ready for my seminar. I could do it in the library. I went there just after my classes.

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