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English today

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  5. I. Translate the following words and word combinations from Russian into English.
  6. II. Translate from Russian into English using active vocabulary

Approximately 350 million people speak English as their first language and about the same number use it as a second language. It is the language of aviation, international sport and pop music. 75% of the world's mail is in English, 60% of the world's radio stations broadcast in English and more than half of the world's periodicals are printed in English It is an official language in 44 countries In many others it is the language of business, commerce and technology. There are many varieties of English, but Scottish, Texan, Australian, Indian and Jamaican speakers of English, in spite of the differences in pronunciation, structure and vocabulary, would recognize that they are all speaking the same basic language.

English has become a world language because of its establishment as a mother tongue outside England, in all the continents of the world. This exporting of English began in the seventeenth century, with the first settlements in North America. Above all, it is the great growth of population in the United States, assisted by massive immigration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. That has given the English language its present standing in the world.

 

1. Learn the following words and phrases:

Celtic кельтский
Survive npoдолжать существовать
Conquer завоевывать
AD = Anno Domini (лaт.) нашей эры
BC = before Christ до нашей эры
approximately приблизительно
borrowing заимствование
recognize узнавать
roast жареный
veal телятина
simplicity простота
inflection грам. флексия
flexibility гибкость
part of speech часть речи
Noun существительное
Verb глагол
Adjective имя прилагательное
preposition предлог
to near приближаться
retirement пенсионный возраст
bend поворот
openness открытость
to involve предполагать
admission доступ
compound составное слово
derivative производное слово
to contribute вносить
Medium средство
loan word заимствование
Tycoon промышленный магнат
Bamboo бамбук
Gaelic гаэльский
Lilac сирень
Bizarre странный
Rendez-vous свидание
Xerox ксерокс
Hoover пылесос
x-ray рентген
to broadcast вести радиопередачу
commerce торговля
Variety разновидность

Make a short summary of the text.

 

From the earliest history of the British Isles (the celtic sagas)

 


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