Exercise 2 Answer the following questions

1. What languages are taught at the Academy? 2. What is the total number of languages in the world? 3. What are the most widespread languages? 4. What is a ‘dead’ language? 5. What dead languages do you know? 6. Who was Great Britain occupied by? 7. Who were the ancient inhabitants of Great Britain? 8. Who were the founders of the English nation? 9. What did the Romans bring into English? 10. What countries is English spoken in?

Exercise 3 Translate and memorize the following words and expressions from the text.

Foreign language, century, reason, politics, science, learning, native, tongue, knowledge, ancient, occupy, period, conquer, pronunciation, desire, the most widespread languages, to differ from, liberation movement, to speak fluently, means of communication.

Exercise 3 Find synonyms (antonyms) among the following words

Study (v), liberty (n), dweller (n), fluently (adj), period (n), communication (n), evolve (v), speak (v), defeat (v), today (adv), tie (n), age (n), freedom (n), conquer (v), ancient (adj), foreign (adj), antique (adj), winning (n), develop (v), alien (adj), call (v), name (v), inhabitant (n), smoothly (adj), universal (adj), learn (v), talk (v), nowadays (adv), conquest (n), global (adj).

Exercise 5 Write a summary of the text, presenting the content of each paragraph in 2-3 sentences. Use the expressions:

The main idea of the text is... The text deals with one of the most important (urgent) issues... Much attention (consideration) is given to (classification, description)... It focuses on the matters of … The text gives an overview of... The text is mainly concerned with... The aim of the survey is to show (demonstrate, find)... Particular emphasis is given to the analysis of... The text gives a detailed analysis of (reports on)... To sum up... In conclusion...

Индивидуальное задание для студентов заочного отделения к курсу

«Английский язык»

Вариант № 22/1c

Exercise 1 Read the text and translate it in written form.