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11 Express Yourself 1 Listen and Discuss 8 3 4 1. What languages do you speak? 2. Do you think English is a difficult language? Explain. 3. Why do you study English? Fascinating Language Facts 1 The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin. There are 885 million people in China who speak it. English is the second most widely spoken language. There are 13 languages that 100 million people or more speak. These languages are Mandarin, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Malay-Indonesian, French, Japanese, German, and Urdu. There are about 7,000 languages spoken in the world today. However, about 2,000 of these languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. 6 It is believed that nearly half of the estimated 7,000 languages currently spoken in the world will have become extinct by 2050. 2 رابط الدرس الرقمي www.ien.edu.sa أهلاً وسهلاً Benvinguts Bienvenidos Benvidos Ongi etorri Welcome Bienvenue Willkommen 歡迎光臨 There are more people in China who speak English than there are in the United States. 福祿壽禧 Good Fortune Prosperity 5 7 Arabic has influenced many languages. Many words in English have been borrowed directly or indirectly from Arabic. Such words include admiral, adobe, alchemy, algebra, alkaline, amber, arsenal, candy, carat, coffee, cotton, hazard, jar, lemon, mattress, sofa and many more. Longevity Auspiciousness The language which has the world's largest alphabet is Cambodian. It has 74 letters. The language with the shortest alphabet is Rotokas, used in the Solomon Islands. It has only 11 letters. Some of the languages that people speak in Africa include a clicking sound. These languages sound different from and are not related to any other known language. It is believed that the click languages may be the earliest human languages. These languages can only be spoken properly by those who acquire the language in childhood. وزارة التعليم Miniry 166ation 2024 1446 SERENLY MG_03_COMBO_TEXT_2024.indb 166 9 There are about 800,000 words in the English language. This is more words than any other language in the world. But people who speak English routinely use only about 1 percent of the immense number of words in the language. 10 Punctuation did not exist in English until the 15th century. 30/4/24 3:07 AM

English Language Facts 11 "Go" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 12 15 13 English The English language has only one solitary word that ends in the letters mt. It is dreamt. Bookkeeper is the only English word that has three consecutive doubled letters. The word that has more definitions in the English language than any other is set. 14 There is no word in the English language that rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. Do you speak English? Parlez-vous anglais? GERMAN ITALIAN SPANISH FRENCH Quick Check ✓ A. Vocabulary. Match each word to its synonym. acquire consecutive a. single b. gigantic 1. - 2 3 4 56N 2. 3. currently 4. extinct 5. immense 6. 7. routinely solitary c. learn d. regularly e. dead f. presently g. continuous B. Comprehension. Answer true or false. Rewrite the false statements to be true. 1. - 2 3 4 5 2. 3. 4. 5. English is the most widely spoken language in the world. More people speak English in China than in the United States. The shortest complete sentence in the English language is "We go." A few words in English have been borrowed from Arabic. Punctuation was introduced to English in the 15th century. 2 Pair Work Create a five-question quiz about the English language to give your partner. You might ask your partner to define certain words or to identify words based on clues. Ask each other your questions and discuss the answers. 1. What does the word equivalent mean? وزارة التعليم Ministry of Education 2024-1446 2. Say one English word that ends in the letters -tion. MG_03_COMBO_TEXT_2024.indb 167 167 30/4/24 3:07 AM