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A Little English Language Quiz
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101 ELT GAMES! 15 pages of communicative activity ideas!
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elementary
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test 1
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intermediate
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TEST ABOUT PREPOSITIONS,
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elementary
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MY SUPER BOOKMARKS PART 2! - FUNNY VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR BOOKMARKS FOR YOUNG LEARNERS ( to be, to have; months of the year, irregular plurals,personal and possessive pronouns, farm animals) EDITABLE WITH B&W VIRSION!!!
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MY SUPER BOOKMARKS! (EDITABLE!!!) - FUNNY VOCABULARY BOOKMARKS FOR KIDS (numbers 1-100, alphabet, colours, body parts and days of the week) 2 pages B&W version included
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a married woman
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A Little English Language Quiz
1.�� English is a
Celtic
Germanic
Slavic
�language.
2.�� There are about�
300 million
50 million
900 million
� native speakers of English.
3.�� English is listed as the official or co-official language of over��
20
45
7
countries.
4.�� English is the�
1st most widely spoken language in the world (before Chinese and Spanish)
2nd most widely spoken language in the world (after Chinese and before Spanish)
3rd most widely spoken language in the world (after Chinese and Spanish)
.
5.�� The history of the English language started with the arrival of�
the Romans
the Celts
the Angles, Saxons and Jutes
� to the�
��
����� British�Isles during the�
5th�century AD.
6.� �They crossed the North Sea from today's�
Denmark and Germany
France
Italy
.
7.�� English is named after�
a tribe that spoke a language form which modern English developed
a king who conquered Britain in 1066
a king that was the first to speak this language
.
8.�� In 1066 the�
the Vikings
the Romans
the Normans
conquered Britain.
9.�� After 1066 the language of the aristocracy was�
Norse
French
Latin
� and the language of the common�
����� people�
was��
French
English
Norse
, so today's English is a unique mixture of these two languages.
10.�In
1099
1399
1599
, King Henry IV�became the first king of England since the�
Roman
Scandinavian
Norman
conquest
���� �whose�
mother�
tongue was English.
11. The vocabulary of English is the largest of any other language. There are at least�
100,000
250,000
500,000
����� words�
in English.
12. An average native English speaker uses about�
1,000
5,000
10,000
words in his everyday speech.�
�
13. Winston Churchill was famous for his large vocabulary. In his writings he used�
20,000
40,000
60,000
words.
�