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 Form 10
Hello everyone,

For our next lesson 1. inform me why you learn English and give us some advice about it.
2. Do the following task

English with these 11 questions. .

Quiz

1. Roughly what proportion of the world's population is fluent or competent in English?
(a) one person in 1,000
(b) one in a 100
(c) one in 10
(d) one in four

2. Which country contains the largest English-speaking population in the world?
(a) England
(b) United States
(c) China
(d) India
(e) Australia

3. In approximately how many countries does the English language have official or special status?
(a) 10
(b) 15
(c) 35
(d) 50
(e) 75

4. Which of the following is probably the most widely used English word throughout the world?
(a) dollar
(b) okay
(c) Internet
(d) sex
(e) movie

5. According to rhetorician I.A. Richards, a proponent of the simplified language known as Basic English, "Even with so small a word list and so simple a structure it is possible to say in Basic English anything needed for the general purpose of everyday existence." How many words are in the lexicon of Basic English?
(a) 450
(b) 850
(c) 1,450
(d) 2,450
(e) 4,550

6. The English language is conventionally divided into three historical periods. In which of these periods did William Shakespeare write his plays?
(a) Old English
(b) Middle English
(c) Modern English

7. Which of the following is the longest word that appears in a play by William Shakespeare?
(a) honorificabilitudinitatibus
(b) sesquipedalian
(c) antidisestablishmentarianism
(d) disproportionableness
(e) incomprehensibleness

8. An acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of a name. An eponym is a word derived from the proper name of a person or place. What term is used for a word that's derived from the same root as another word?
(a) retronym
(b) oronym
(c) paronym
(d) exonym

9. Which one of the following words is an example of an isogram?
(a) destruction
(b) racecar
(c) sesquipedalian
(d) buffet
(e) palindrome

10. Which one of the following observations applies to the word typewriter?
(a) It's the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
(b) It's a palindrome.
(c) It appeared in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language—several decades before the invention of the first typing machine.
(d) It's the only word in English that doesn't rhyme with any other word.
(e) It can be typed using only the top row of keys on a standard keyboard.

11. Which of the following is generally regarded as the first genuine dictionary in English?
(a) The Elementarie by Richard Mulcaster
(b) A Table Alphabeticall by Robert Cawdrey
(c) Glossographia by Thomas Blount
(d) Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
(e) An American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster

                                        Good luck!


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