III. Number events in correct order.

a) She sat on the sofa and began to cry.

b) In one of the shops she saw a very beautiful watch chain.

c) He looked at his smiling wife and understood everything.

d) Christmas was coming and Della wanted to give Jim a present.

e) So Della bought a gold watch chain.

f) Suddenly an idea came to her.

g) Della opened the packet and saw two beautiful combs.

h) She went to the hairdresser's to sell her beautiful hair.

І) When she got home Jim was waiting for her.

j) The hairdresser gave Della twenty dollars for her hair.

IV. Choose the correct word.

1. They loved each other_____________.

2. She got up and stood in front of the____________.

3. In a few minutes she was already at the_________.

4. He needs____________for his watch.

5. She sat on the sofa and began_____________.

6. She saw two beautiful _______ in the packet Jim had given her.

a)	mirror;
b)	hairdresser's;
c)	combs;
d)	to cry:
e)	dearly;
f)	a chain.

The future of English

10 Form

Two thousand years ago English did not exist. A thousand years ago it was spo­ken only by less than two million peo­ple. Nowadays it is the most influential language in the world. English is spo­ken by more than one billion people as their first, second or third language. At present English is widely used in sci­ence, business, popular culture etc. For example, 80% of e-mails on the Inter­net are in English. But what is the fu­ture of English.

One view is that English is going to be­come even more important as an inter­national language, dominating the world's trade and mass media while most other languages will become less used or even die out. At present, over half of the world's 6,500 languages are in danger of extinction. Another view is that English is already breaking up, as Latin did, into several separate lan-guages. There already dictionaries of the "New Englishes", such as Austra­lian English, full of words that a British English speaker would not recognize.

Hopefully, neither of these things will happen. Although different varieties of English will continue to develop around the world, Standard English will survive for international communication. In addition, the frightening prospect of a culturally uniform world totally dominated by one language is impossible. Already other languages are fighting back against the iron grip of English on the Net. Governments around the world are also starting to protect smaller languages and recognize the. impor­tance of cultural and linguistic diversity.

English will probably stay in control for a long time, at least while the USA remains the top superpower, but It definitely won't become the only language in the world . (After Bridget Lewis)

I. Match words and meanings.

1)	in addition	a)	significance
2)	to extinct	b)	an opinion
3)	to protect	c)	loved by many people
4)	a point of view	d)	besides
5)	popular	e)	to defend
6)	importance	f)	to disappear