3C PLACES AND LANGUAGES

READING

1. WHICH LANGUAGES DO PEOPLE SPEAK AROUND THE WORLD? WHICH

ARE THE MOST POPULAR?
Mandarin Chinese is spoken by over one billion speakers. Hindi is second Spanish
is third. English is fourth.

2. READ THE ARTICLE AGAIN AND ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS

a) Where do most Spanish speakers live? Latin America
b) Do more people speak English as a first language or second language? Second
language
c) What do many people use English for? Business reading the news or
studying/official language for government in some countries or official
language in universities and schools.
d) How many languages are there in the islands of Vanuatu? 109
e) How many people speak Amurdag? 1

VOCABULARY ORDINAL AND CARDINAL NUMBER

3. LOOK AT THE WORDS IN BOLD IN THIS SENTENCE FROM THE

ARTICLE. WHICH SAY THE ORDER ORDINAL NUMBERS)? WHICH SAY
‘’HOW MANY’’ (CARDINAL NUMBERS)?
1. Ordinal: first
2. Cardinal: one billion

4. FIND COLLOCATIONS IN THE ARTICLE WITH THE WORDS LANGUAGE

AND SPEAKER.MATCH THE COLLOCATIONS WITH THESE DEFINITIONS.

a) The language you learn after your first language: second language
b) The main language that a person speaks: first language
 c) The language of the government: official language
d) The language you first learn from your parents as a child: native language
e) A person who speaks Spanish: Spanish speaker
f) A person who speaks the language from when they were a child: native
speake

CRITICAL THINKING MAIN IDEAS AND SUPPORTING INFORMATION

5. DECIDE IF THEY ARE MAIN IDEAS (M) OR SUPPORTING INFORMATION

(S)
a) English is a second language for over one billion other people (M)
b) They speak English for doing business, reading the news or studying science
and medicine.
c) It is also the language of education in many universities and schools (S)
d) The other twenty por cent speak 6, 996 languages between them (S)
e) Many countries use lots of different languages (M)
f) On the islands of Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean there are sixty-five
different islands and they have one hundred and mine different languages
(S)