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Answer key: Unit 2
3 Suggested answers 7 when children stop learning it
Verbs: -ify (intense – intensify) 8 We do not know what will be lost with the loss of a
Nouns: -age (bag – baggage), -al (arrive – arrival), language; diversity is important.
-ant (participate – participant), -ance/-ence (interfere 3 Text A: 1 languages which dominate communications
– interference), -dom (free – freedom), -ee (employ and business 2 their children’s shift away from
– employee), -er/-or (instruct – instructor), -ism the language of their ancestors towards languages
(liberal – liberalism), -ist (motor – motorist) which promise education, etc. 3 the promotion of
Adjectives: -al (logic – logical), -ial (face – facial), bilingualism
-ed (embarrass – embarrassed), -en (wood – Text B: 4 young people 5 the fact that people
wooden), -ese (Japan – Japanese), -ic (base – basic), speaking regional languages have limited prospects
-ing (embarrass – embarrassing), -ish (child – 6 the local language
childish), -ive (act – active), -ian (Mars – Martian),
-like (business – businesslike), -ous (mountain – Text C: 7 PhD students 8 lacking the resources to
mountainous), -y (snow – snowy) develop their language skills and therefore relying
on interpreters and translators 9 PhD students
Adverbs: -wards (back – backwards), -wise (clock – 10 minority languages serve no useful purpose and
anticlockwise) should be allowed to die a natural death
11 language extinction and species extinction
4 Corrections: happening, development, reference,
really, beautifully, truthful, dissatisfied, irregularity, Text D: 12 a language 13 the language
undeniable, usable, refusing, basically, argument 14 the disappearance of a language 15 people who
don’t speak the language 16 When an animal or
5 1 advertisement 2 beginning 3 successful plant becomes extinct, we seldom realise how its
4 government 5 environment 6 really existence might have benefited us.
7 1 They investigate thousands of possible names, 4 1 A B: ‘national languages … help to create wealth’
they run competitions amongst their employees, – A: major languages ‘promise … the chance of
they check possible names for legal problems. a better life … the opportunity to achieve the
2 The names are not legally available in all sort of prosperity they see on television’. (C and
countries. D do not discuss the economic significance of
major languages.)
8 1 universally 2 savings 3 reality 4 innovation 2 B A, C and D suggest that there is an inherent
5 acceptable 6 unsuccessfully 7 competition value in the existence of minority languages
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and put forward reasons for preserving them.
However, B does not see any need to preserve
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3 A B, C and D see the disappearance of these
2 Suggested answers languages as inevitable. However, A believes
1 Fewer people speak them as they have access to that there is reason to hope that ‘many
languages which promise education, success and a endangered languages will survive’ (due to
better life. bilingual language teaching).
2 educating children bilingually
3 National languages unite and create wealth while 4 D C: ‘language extinction and species extinction
regional languages divide. are different facets of the same process …
4 that it’s better to allow languages to die naturally part of an impending global catastrophe’ – D:
by neglecting them ‘language diversity is as necessary as biological
5 They lack resources to develop their language diversity … When an animal or plant becomes
skills, so have to rely on translators, which has a extinct, we seldom realise how its existence
negative effect on the quality of their research. might have benefited us. The same is true for
6 They contain a unique body of knowledge and many small languages.’
culture.
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