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Period 31_Lesson 4: THE ENGLISH LANGUAGEIII – Reading Practice Exercise 5,6... It is the written English, which is not systematically phonetic, that causes difficulties to foreigner.. As

What do you want to be in the future?Welcome to our English lesson

CHECKING OLD LESSON

1. Match the information in A with B

2. Choose the best option A,B, C or D to complete the sents.

b It is a Germanic language forms modern English

Vị trí Quốc gia Tổng số người nói tiếng Anh

số Số người nói tiếng Anh như tiếng mẹ đẻ Số người nói tiếng Anh như tiếng bổ trợ Dân số Ghi chú

1 Hoa Kỳ 251.388.301 96% 215.423.557 35.964.744 262.375.152 Nguồn: US Census 2000:

Language Use and English-Speaking Ability: 2000 , Bảng 1.

2 Ấn Độ 125.344.736 12% 226.449 86.125.221 ngôn ngữ thứ hai.

38,993,066 ngôn ngữ thứ ba 1,028,737,436

3 Nigeria 79.000.000 53% 4.000.000 >75.000.000 148.000.000

4 Liên hiệp Anh 59.600.000 98% 58.100.000 1.500.000 60.000.000 Nguồn: Crystal (2005), trang 109.

5 Philippines 48.800.000 58% [2] 3.427.000 [2] 43,974,000 84,566,000 Tổng số người nói: Census 2000, text above Figure 7

6 Canada 25.246.220 85% 17.694.830 7.551.390 29.639.030 Nguồn: 2001 Census – Knowledge of Official Languages

và Mother Tongue

7 Úc 18.172.989 92% 15.581.329 2.591.660 19.855.288 Nguồn: 2006 Census [3]

Period 31_Lesson 4: THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

III – Reading Practice (Exercise 5,6)

1 Exercise 5: In what order do you think the 5 sentences below should be put according to the

Reading passege ? (number them from 1 to 5).

1

a It is the written English, which is not systematically phonetic, that causes difficulties to foreigner.

2

b As a mother tongue, English ranks second only to Chinese, which is little used outside China.

3

c It is the English language that is used as the language of aviation, international sport and pop

music.

4

d In the world today, there are 5,000 to 6,000 living languages, of which English is by far the most

widely used.

5

e Approximately 350 million people speak English as their first language

2 Exercise 6: Which of these sentences about the reading passege are true (T) and which are False (F) Correct

the false.

1

In the world today, there are 500 to 600 living languages, of which English is by

far the most widely used

2

As a mother tongue, French ranks second only to Chinese, which is little used

outside China

3

It is the English language that is used as the language of aviation, international sport

and pop music

4

It is the spoken English, which is not systematically phonetic, that causes difficulties

to foreigner

F

F

T

F

T

5,000 to 6,000

English

written

3 Further exercise: Choose the best option A, B,C or D to complete the sentences.

+ the relative pronoun: “Which”

+ It is (was) that

- Do exercise: 7 (p33)

What do you want to be in the future?Thanks for attention