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и 1. Linguists from all over the world were invited to the Mission Control for a conference. Their task is to help the children decode the unknown language. Look at some figures presented at the conference and guess what they mean. Match the parts of three sentences.
1. Twenty-three languages...
2. About 6,000 languages...
3. More than 200 languages...
a. ...are spoken in the world today.
b. ...are used by a million or more speakers.
c. ...are used by 50 mln or more speakers each.
2. Listen to a report from the conference, discuss the questions below, read the text Multicultural English and answer the questions after it.
1. How many sounds are there in Ukrainian? Are they different from English sounds?
2. Are there similar words in Ukrainian and English?
3. Is the word order in Ukrainian strict?
4. Do the endings of words have any meanings in Ukrainian? What are they?
Multicultural English
English is more multicultural than any other language. For centuries it has taken words from other languages, and today's international communication means that new words are appearing every day in this language. As a matter of fact, English contains words from more than 350 other languages. We know that algebra comes from Arabic, goulash from Hungarian, garage from French, sputnik from Russian. Sometimes English even takes the whole phrases. We use c'est la vie from French and feng shui from Chinese.
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