1 Which is the most widely spoken language in the world a Chinese b English c Spanish d Hindi a CHINESE 2 How many living languages are there estimated in the world ID: 786113
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LANGUAGE QUIZ
September 2015
Slide21.
Which
is the most widely spoken language in the world
?
a)
Chinese
b)
English
c)
Spanish
d)
Hindi
Slide3a) CHINESE
Slide42.
How
many living languages are there estimated in the world?
a)
around
500
b)
around
2000
c)
around
4000
d)
around
6000
Slide5d)
A
ROUND 6000
Slide63.
In
which of the following countries is German an official language?
a)
Liechtenstein
b)
Switzerland
c)
Austria
d)
Belgium
Slide7a,b c & d-
German
is the official language or one of the official languages of all of them.
Slide84.
How
many words do you think there are in the English language?
a) 70,000 b) 170,000
c
) 500,000
d) 2 million+
Slide9d) 2
MILLION +
Slide105.
The
following English words come from other languages. Can you guess which language they are borrowed from?
a) Tea b) Coffee
c
)
Potato
d)
Shampoo
Slide11a)
TEA-CHINA
b)
COFFEE-
TURKEY
c)
POTATO-
SPAIN
d)
SHAMPOO-
INDIA
Slide126.
In
its first year, a baby utters a wide range of vocal sounds; at around one year, the first understandable words are uttered; at around three years, complex sentences are formed; at five years, a child possesses
????????
words
.
Slide13SEVERAL THOUSAND
Slide147.
Languages are related to each other like the members of a family. Most European languages belong to the large
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family
.
Slide15I
NDO-EUROPEAN
Slide168
.
Most
European languages belong to three broad groups:
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Slide17GERMANIC
, R
OMANCE
and S
LAVIC
.
Slide189
.
The
??????
languages
include Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian and others
.
Slide19SLAVIC
Slide2010
. How many people speak English as a first language (mother tongue) worldwide?
Slide21More than 400 million people.
Slide2211. In which countries is English used as a mother tongue?
Slide23The USA, Australia, the UK, the Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada (but remember that a minority here speak French).
Slide2412.How many people speak English as a second language or official language?
Slide25Around 375 million people use English as a second language and an official language, meaning that English is the language used in documents and in business.
Slide2613. How many people across the world use English as a foreign language (EFL)?
Slide27More than 750 million people (British Council’s estimate). This number is constantly increasing.
Slide2814.What is the percent of the Internet users of English?
a
)
12% b) 37% c) 57%
d) 73%
Slide29c)
English:57%
Japanese:8%
German:5%
French:4%
Slide3015. What are the two shortest English words?
Slide31I
and
a
Slide32TONGUE TWISTERS
Combien de
sous
sont
ces
saucissons-ci
?
Ces
saucissons-ci
sont
six
sous
(French
): “How much are these sausages here? These sausages here are six cents”.
Slide33TONGUE TWISTERS
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck all the wood that he could if a woodchuck could chuck wood
Slide34PALINDROMES
Idu
ljudi
.-People go.
Potop
-
Flood
Ratar
-
Farmer
Maja
sa
Nedom
ode
na
sajam
.
-
Maja
went with
Neda
to the fair.
Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?
Was it a cat I saw?
Slide35A SONG
Hello to all the children of the world!
Slide36THANK YOU!