Revision. Languages

CLT stands for ...

In the UK, Received Pronunciation …

• mostly sets people back.

• is considered to be a hindrance.

• still provides a short cut to career success.

Cockney is associated with …

• the eastern part of Cornwall.

• Edinburgh and environs.

• the East End of London.

Integrative motivation is

• the kind of motivation which gets immigrants or people who are married to foreigners to master the tongue.

• the kind of motivation which incentivizes adults to pursue foreign languages in order to fortify their CVs and land good jobs.

A purist is someone who resists the arrival of foreign words in their native language.

• true

• false

Esperanto is an obscure language used as a lingua franca the length and breadth of the world.

• true

• false

Flexibility means that

• some words can operate as different parts of speech.

• some words can't operate as different parts of speech.

An official language has a ___________ status

• illegal

• compulsory

• legal

• worldwide

American English will … in the future.

• be the only language in Britain

• be wiped out.

• be banned in Britain.

• take over the world.

a language used by people whose native languages are not the same