the right answers. (More than one answer is possible). 1. What makes communication easier?
a) language learning
b) words
c) knowledge of English
2. What languages were offered as an alternative
international language?
a) Chinese, Russian
b) Mandarin, French
c) Esperanto
10 I Scale Up 3. In what areas of Tashkent city English signs are
less popular?
a) Chorsu, Chopon ota,
b) Kukcha
c) all areas
4. According to the speaker’s opinion, what place
can be good to enlarge one’s vocabulary?
a) City center
b) Chopon ota street
c) language centers
3 Complete the sentences using the expressions from the box. Explain their meaning. is inevitable; tonal nature; c o n s t r u c t e d
rationally;
in the foreseeable future; much
less so the case; to say nothing of; inveterate
homemakers;
1. In order to make it neutral and easily absorbed
Esperanto w as____________________________
2. I t ______________ that English becomes a single
international language.
3. A specific ______________ of the Chinese
language hampers its spreading.
4. Popularity of French as a language of diplomacy
and exchange i s ___________________________
5. English is unlikely to be replaced by any other
language _________________________________
6. Common words and expressions like ‘open’,
‘close’, ‘enter’, ‘shop’, ‘happy’ are popular even
a m o n g _________________________________
7. English words are popular enough in all cities and
towns
tourist centers.
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4 Look at the pictures and make a list of some other English words you think are known among particular groups of people in Uzbekistan.
