1. THE CONFERENCE "International languages.
How much people do need them."

2. SOME FACTS ABOUT ENGLISH
There were only 30,000 words in Old English. Modern English has the largest vocabulary in the world more than 600,000 words.
About words are added to the English vocabulary every year
70 per cent of the English vocabulary are loan words and only 30 per cent of the words are native
The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultamicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, with 45 letters
The most overworked word in English is the word set. It has 126 verbal uses and 58 noun uses
Ther newest letters added to the English alphabet are j and v, which are of postShakespearean use.
The largest English-language dictionary is the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, with 21,728 pages
The commonest English name is Smith. There are about 800,000 people called Smith in England and Wales, and about 1,700,000 in the USA

3. FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES T F Are the following sentences True or False?
English has a larger vocabulary than any other language.
2. There are words from more than 50 languages in the English language.
3. Canada is a country with two languages.
4. Esperanto is an Italian dialect.
5. It is not easy to understand a London Cockney.
6. The English vocabulary is growing.
7. The Eskimos live in New Zealand.
8. Shakespeare spoke English.
9. There are McDonald’s restaurants in Japan.
10. There are only a few English words in Russia T F 3

4. 4 10 7 6 3 8 9 2 5 1 Hindi German Bengali Russian Portuguese Spanish
The ten languages below are the languages with most speakers in the world today. Put them in order 1 – 10. 4 10
Hindi
Bengali
Portuguese
Japanese
Chinese
German
Russian
Spanish
English
Arabic 7 6 3 8 9 2 5 1

5. Spanish German Turkish Japanese Italian Hindi
The English language has many words which have been borrowed from other languages. Can you guess where the following words come from? Match the word and the language.
Coffee hamburger canyon
Menu kindergarten poodle
Pizza physics soprano
Theatre judo kimono
Samovar guitar sputnik
Cafe bouquet samovar
Caviar chemistry tango
Shampoo kiosk pyjamas
Fresco bungalo hara-kiri
French Greek Russian
Spanish German Turkish
Japanese Italian Hindi

6. ANSWERS French: menu, cafe, bouquet Greek: physics, theatre, chemistry
Italian: pizza, soprano, fresco
Russian: sputnik, vodka, samovar
Spanish: guitar, canyon, tango
German: hamburger, kindergarten, poodle

7. Can you translate the following from Euro-English into plain English?
After zis fifz yer, e vil have a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.
ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!

8. ANSWERS
After this fifth year, we will have a really sensible written style. There will be no more troubles or difficulties and everyone will find it easy to understand each other.
THE DREAM WILL FINALLY COME TRUE!

9. Thank you!!!