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Английский язык, 7 класс. English VII. Афанасьева О.В.
Unit 2 Упражнение 24
24. Прочитайте текст заново для более детальной информации и ответьте на эти вопросы.
1. There is only one thing about the language that makes me curious. Why has just English language become the language of the planet?
2. Yes, I'm interested a little in the origin of such words as: Power, String, Pen and so on.
3. When Julius Caesar landed in Britain nearly two thousand years ago, English did not exist.
4. No, it wasn't like English today.
5. English was the native language of about 6 million Englishmen in Shakespeare's times.
6. Nowadays 750 million people all over the world use English, and half of those speak it as a mother tongue.
7. English has the most words, it has a vocabulary of about 500 000 words.
8. Yes, I think it's good to have an international, global language, because with the knowledge of English you can exchange information with people from other countries.
9. It can be called because you can't do any business or play sports with people from other countries without knowledge of English.
10. English borrowed a lot of words from Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and other languages.
11. When Columbus came back from South America he brought home to Spain new plants — potatoes, tomatoes and tobacco. With the plants he brought their names.
12. Many Italian words that are now part of English (opera, operetta, piano) have to do with music, but many of the words that borrow from other languages are names of food.
13. There is nothing else I would like to know about the history of English.
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