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QUESTIONS, TASKS AND TESTS FOR SELF-CONTROL ON PART 1
I.
Answer the following questions:
1.
What is language? Why is it difficult to define it?
2.
What branches of linguistics were mentioned in Unit 1? What do they study?
3.
What other branches of linguistics do you know? What do they study?
4.
What linguistic family does the English language belong to?
5.
What other groups of Indo-European languages do you know?
6.
Do you have any knowledge about the Germanic languages (dead or living)
not mentioned in Unit 2? Where are/were they spoken? How many people speak
them? What groups of Germanic languages do they belong to?
7.
Find information about Elfdalian. Is it a language or a dialect? How many
people speak it today?
8.
How many people speak the Icelandic language?
9.
Where is Hunsrik spoken? How many people speak it?
10.
What is „lingua franca‟? Which language(s) can be called lingua franca?
11.
What are the reasons of English having become a global language?
12.
What languages are called creoles and pidgins? Have you heard of any?
13.
Where is English spoken as a native tongue?
14.
What negative effects may the spread of English have?
15.
Can you predict the future of English? Will it remain a global language or
will it be replaced by other languages? What other languages can replace it? Why?
II.
Do the following multiple-choice test. Mind that there can be only 1
correct answer to each test question.
1.
The English language belongs to the … family of languages.
a)
Germanic b) Romance c) Turkic d) Slavonic e) Semitic
2.
What language is spoken in Denmark?
a)
Elfdalian b) German c) Danish d) Spanish e) Icelandic
3.
People do not speak German as a native tongue in …
a)
Finland b) Luxemburg c) Germany d) Austria e) Liechtenstein
4.
In what country do the people speak the Afrikaans language?
a)
Congo b) Greece c) Hungary d) The South African Republic e) Egypt
5.
What language is spoken in Liechtenstein?
a)
Icelandic b) Spanish c) Danish d) Elfdalian e) German
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