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GR9.U9. Skills 1

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The United States has the most native speakers at 258 million. Additionally, there are 62 million native English _____________in the United Kingdom, 32 million in Canada, 20 million in Australia, and 4.5 million in New Zealand.

a)

talkers

b)

hearers

c)

speakers

d)

people

2.

English is the largest language by number of ___________ speakers.

a)

foreign

b)

native

c)

first

d)

fluent

3.

I went to Rome last summer and I ___________ the basics.

a)

picked up

b)

get by

c)

make a guess

d)

correct a mistake

4.

My Spanish is not perfect but good enough to ________ everyday-life situations.

a)

correct

b)

translate

c)

pick up

d)

get by in

5.

Don't be too critical about your                                 - it doesn't matter if you sound like a non-native speaker.

a)

word

b)

language

c)

accent

d)

mother tongue

6.

Don’t worry about understanding every word, but read for the general meaning then go back and                                  new words.

a)

look at

b)

look for

c)

look up

d)

look after

7.

I can speak basic French, so I can just about                         in French.

a)

pick up

b)

get by

c)

speak

d)

fluent

8.

Don’t                           into English from your own language, but think in English to improve your fluency.

a)

translate

b)

break

c)

imitate

d)

guess

9.

My father hasn’t used English for ages, so his English may be a little                         .

a)

bad

b)

good

c)

rusty

d)

fluent

10.

Try to                          the meaning of a word from the context.

a)

guess

b)

remember

c)

correct

d)

get by in

11.

Ask your friend to                                          your pronunciation when needed.

a)

help

b)

correct

c)

get by in

d)

look up

12.

There is greater variety of                              in Great Britain because the language developed over a millennium and a half.

a)

dialects

b)

words

c)

accents

d)

slangs

13.

He decided he wanted to master Spanish and enrolled in an English________ in Mexico.

a)

state school

b)

immersion school

c)

private school

d)

boarding school

14.

Words which are formed from other “root” words are____________

a)

accents

b)

derivatives

c)

variations

d)

new words

15.

Approximately 330 to 360 million people speak English as their first ____________

a)

language

b)

word

c)

mother tongue

d)

talk