ENG AS A WORLD LANGUAGE
True or False:
Esperanto means 'unity'.
False
Esperanto means 'hopeful'
True or False:
endangered and vanished are synonyms.
False
True or False:
Globish is another name for Transatlantic English.
False
True or false:
Connecting with one´s countrymen in a multilingual nation is an example of integrative motivation.
True
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What is it?
Name all levels)
the language pyramid: peripheral, central, supercentral, hypercentral
Give the antonym:
1) compulsory subject
2) monolingualism
an elective
multilingualism
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Name the dialects associated with the encircled regions.
1) Geordie
2) Cockney
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Guess the expressions.
1. to throw the baby out with the bath water
2. A language is best learned between the sheets
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Define:
1) Globalisation
2) Obscure language
3) Conquer the world
1) the growing interdependence of the world's economies, cultures, and populations
2) not well-known\ difficult
3) to overcome; to become extremely popular\ widespread
Give the definition: oppressive.
Acc. to our articles what is oppressive? How?
harsh, authoritarian, domineering
Define:
Anglocreep
What it the opposite trend? Name it and define.
adoption of British phrases into everyday American speech
the Americanization of English
the influence of American English on other varieties of the English language, esp on the British English
Define:
Instrumental motivation.
Give at least two examples.
Instrumental motivation is a desire to learn a language to achieve a practical goal (e.g. to land a job, to get a credit, to move forward at school etc.)
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Give synonyms: bridge language, purist
Give antonyms: intelligible, literacy
And explain:)
bridge language - interlanguage
purist - a language conservationist
intelligible - unintelligible
literacy - illiteracy
Define:
1) Linguicide
2) doomed
3) hotspot
4) to see fit
1) the death of language
2) certain to fail, die, or be destroyed
3) linguistic area where there are many languages close to extinction
4) consider it correct or acceptable to do something.
1) Define 'Estuary English'. What is it called colloquially?
2) Give some other names of RP.
Are they similar?
1) an English accent associated with the area along the River Thames and its estuary, including London. Mockney
2) Standard English/ BBC English/
the Queen’s
English
Estuary English is not as posh as RP
Decipher and define:
ICT, CLT
Information and Communication technologies - digital tools used for transferring info and communicating
Communicative Language Teaching - approach in teaching that focuses on interaction and communicative skills
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Make collocations and explain:
1. To learn a) of words
2. To be b) smth in your toolkit
3. Exporter c) from scratch
4. To hold d) at pains to do smth
5. To have e) on to one's heritage
to learn from scratch
to be at pains to do something
exporter of words
to hold on to one’s heritage
to have something in your toolkit
Continue and define:
1) To fight...
2) To pull...
3) To scratch...
1) to fight tooth and nails
2) to pull (back) from the brink
3) to scratch the surface
Use the words and expressions to fill in the gaps and define them: utilitarian, shrinking, homogenizing, detrimental
1) Transatlantic English has ... power and bridges the gap between Am and Br English.
2) Some strong regional accents are ....
3) Diminishing linguistic variance is ...
the world.
4) The first American words were largely ...– signifiers for flora and fauna that didn’t exist back in
England.
2) detrimental - harmful
3) shrinking - making it smaller
4) utilitarian - used for practical purposes
Make collocations and explain:
1) language а) learning
2) to lose b) ideas
3) kinesthetic c) at a plateau
4) to remain d) the flow
5) to embrace e) aptitude
language aptitude - natural ability to learn lgs
to lose the flow - to lose the chain of thought
kinesthetic learning - involving physical objects and movements
to reamin at a plateau - to stop developing
to embrace ideas - to accept and put them to practice
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