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Read the text, Use the suggestions to put in the correct positions and Give the

correct word-forms ( O – is done for you as an exmple ). ( 2 m.s )

Write the answers after the numbers.

Estimate

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As (0)... 300 – 400 million people speak English as their first language. One

recent estimate is that 1.9 billion people, nearly a third of the world’s population, have a basic

(1) ... in English. English is the dominant international language in (2)...,

science, business, aviation, (3)..., diplomacy and the Internet. It has been one of the

(4)... languages of the United Nations since its founding in 1945.

English (5)... in England, and is West Germanic language which developed from

Old English, the language of the Anglo – Saxons. As a result of the Norman Conquest and other

events in English history, it has been heavily (6)..., more than any others (7)...

language, by French and Latin. From England it spread to the rest of the British Isles, then to the

colonies and territories of the British Empire ( both outside and inside the current Commonwealth

of Nations ) such as United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others, (8) ...

those in the Anglophone Caribbeans. As a result of these historical (9)... English is the

official language ( sometimes one of several ) in many countries (10)... under British or

American rule, such as Pakistan, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, and the Philippines.

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