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Unit 2 - Love for Languages!
Warm – up Activity
1. Work in pairs. Look at the pictures. How are these help in the development of language?
2. Read the questionnaire and find the answers in the box.
1. How many English words were created by Shakespeare?
2. How many words are there in the Oxford English Dictionary?
3. How many words are does the average educated native speaker of
English know?
4. How many new words enter the Oxford English Dictionary each year?
5. According to the Global Language Monitor, a new word is created every .
. . minutes.
6. In how many countries does English have an official status?
7. Approximately what percentage of the world’s population is believed to
speak English to some degree?
8. Approximately how many languages are spoken around the world?
9. How many languages are thought to die out every year?
10. How many languages are used by the UN to conduct business?
75 25 98 17 000 171 476 1 000 1 700 25 7 000 6