4 . Найдите в тексте и объясните, что значат числа, приведенные ниже.

5. Закончите предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста.

1. A language achieves a genuinely global status when _______.

a) it develops a special role that is recognized in every country

b) large number of people speak English as a second language

c) no language has ever been spoken by mother-tongue majority in more than a dozen

or so countries

d) the USA, Canada, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, several

Caribbean countries speak English

e) the language is made official (or semi-official) language of a country

2. The language is made a priority __________.

a) in a country’s foreign-language teaching

b) in such domains as the law courts and poetry

c) in linguistics, morphological structure and clause structure

3. Those who have learned English as a first language are now estimated _______.

a) to be round 400 million

b) to be round 600 million

c) to be round 1 billion

4. A language becomes a world language because of __________.

a) the power of the people who speak it

b) the need for a Lingua Franca

c) its pronunciation, grammar, spelling

5. The power of the people who speak English means _________.

a) political power

b) technological power

c) economic power

d) cultural power

e) all the above mentioned

6. Выразите свое согласие/несогласие со следующими утверждениями, используя ту или иную речевые модели. Исправьте неверные утверждения.

Models: a) I strongly agree with this statement.

b) I strongly disagree with it.

1. Mother-tongue use by itself can give a language world status.

2. To achieve a world status, a language has to be taken up by other countries around the globe.

3. The language can be made the official (or semi-official) language of a country, to be used as a medium of communication in such domains as government, the law courts, the media, and the educational system.

4. The language can be made a priority in a country’s foreign-language teaching.

5. English is now recognized as the chief foreign language to be taught in schools.

6. An obvious factor is the need for a Lingua Franca.

7. The power of the people who speak English means athletic power.

8. In the 19^th century English was one “on which the sun never sets”.