Answer the following questions:
1) In which countries is English spoken as a mother tongue?
2) Why has English become one of the major languages in the world?
3) When did the exporting of English begin?
4) Why do people study English?
5) Which of the three groups of English speakers do you belong to?
6) What is your reason for learning English?
7) What are basic characteristics of English?
8) What does the term “flexibility” mean?
9) What role does openness of vocabulary play in the English language? 10) What spheres is English used in as an international language?
Learn words by heart:
- mother tongue / native language - родной язык
- major - основной, главный
- foreign language - иностранный язык
- widespread - широко распространённый
- bilingual society - двуязычное общество
- purpose - цель
- simplicity of form - простота форм
- flexibility - гибкость
- flexible - гибкий
- openess of vocabulary - открытость лексики
- inflection - словоформа, окончание
- part of speech - часть речи
- verb - глагол
- noun - существительное
- adjective - прилагательное
- preposition - предлог
- derivative - производное слово
- compound - сложное слово
- tense - время
- singular - ед. число
- plural - мн. число
- a number of - количество
- to simplify - упрощать
- to involve - вовлекать, включать
- to belong to - принадлежать
