WorksheetsWhat do you know about languages?
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
How many languages are spoken in Papua, New Guinea?
a)
850 languages
b)
840 languages
c)
860 languages
d)
830 languages
2.
How many people speak Mandarin/Chinese?
a)
1 billion
b)
190 milion
c)
1,2 billion
d)
180 millon
3.
How many countries are there in the world?
a)
186
b)
176
c)
196
d)
206
4.
The Bible is available in ...
a)
2,454 languages
b)
1,454 languages
c)
3,454 languages
d)
4,454 languages
5.
How many languages are there in the Lord of the Ring?
a)
12 languages
b)
11 languages
c)
10 languages
d)
9 languages
6.
The longest word in English has got ....
a)
51 letters
b)
40 letters
c)
31 letters
d)
45 letters
7.
Richard Simcott is a polyglot. He knows . . .
a)
25 languages
b)
19 languages
c)
21 languages
d)
15 languages
8.
South Africa has got . . . official languages.
a)
11
b)
9
c)
7
d)
5
9.
There are . . . ways to spell the 'o' sound in French.
a)
4
b)
7
c)
10
d)
13
10.
The longest word in Polish (konstantynopolitanczykiewiczówna) has got . . .
a)
28 letters
b)
31 letters
c)
33 letters
d)
36 letters
11.
To read the newspaper in Chinese you must know ...
a)
5,000 characters
b)
1,000 characters
c)
2,000 characters
d)
1,000 characters
12.
How many people in the world speak Spanish ?
a)
300 million
b)
330 million
c)
360 million
d)
390 million
13.
There are . . . people all over the world.
a)
7,5 billion
b)
7 billion
c)
8 billion
d)
10 billion
14.
One language dies about every . . . weeks.
a)
2
b)
3
c)
4
d)
5
15.
How many characters are there in Chinese?
a)
50,000 characters
b)
40, 000 characters
c)
30,000 characters
d)
20,000 characters
16.
There are over . . . languages all over the world.
a)
5,000
b)
6,000
c)
7,000
d)
8,000
17.
There are . . . milion people who speak English.
a)
328
b)
300
c)
228
d)
200
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