WorksheetsGR9.U9. Skills 1
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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.
talkers
hearers
speakers
people
English is the largest language by number of ___________ speakers.
foreign
native
first
fluent
I went to Rome last summer and I ___________ the basics.
picked up
get by
make a guess
correct a mistake
My Spanish is not perfect but good enough to ________ everyday-life situations.
correct
translate
pick up
get by in
Don't be too critical about your - it doesn't matter if you sound like a non-native speaker.
word
language
accent
mother tongue
Don’t worry about understanding every word, but read for the general meaning then go back and new words.
look at
look for
look up
look after
I can speak basic French, so I can just about in French.
pick up
get by
speak
fluent
Don’t into English from your own language, but think in English to improve your fluency.
translate
break
imitate
guess
My father hasn’t used English for ages, so his English may be a little .
bad
good
rusty
fluent
Try to the meaning of a word from the context.
guess
remember
correct
get by in
Ask your friend to your pronunciation when needed.
help
correct
get by in
look up
There is greater variety of in Great Britain because the language developed over a millennium and a half.
dialects
words
accents
slangs
He decided he wanted to master Spanish and enrolled in an English________ in Mexico.
state school
immersion school
private school
boarding school
Words which are formed from other “root” words are____________
accents
derivatives
variations
new words
Approximately 330 to 360 million people speak English as their first ____________
language
word
mother tongue
talk
