Unit 2-Global English

1 Vocabulary The expressions a-h below are all related to language. Use each expression once
to complete the sentences 1-8.
1e,2g,3b,4c,5f,6a,7h,8d
2 Match the types of words and expressions 1-7 below with the examples a-g.
1c,2f,3e,4g,5b,6d,7a
3 Sometimes IELTS Writing Task 1 requires you to describe a diagram. Read the response below,
which describes a diagram showing the relationship between a number of different languages.
Sketch the diagram to see how well you understood the description.

West East

Indo-Iranian:
Celtic:
1)Iranian
Scots and Welsh
2)IndoAryan: 1.Urdu,2.Bengali

Germanic:
1.North German

2.West Indo-European
German:1)English,2)German,3)Dutch Root Language Greek
3.East German

Slavic:
Italic:
1.Russian,2.Czech,3.Polish
1)French,2)Spanish,3)Portuguese,
4)Italian
5 Complete the introductory and the concluding sentences for the figure below.
1.The bar chart shows the proportion of children in European secondary schools who are studying five
different foreign languages in the years 1990,2000 and 2010.

2 In summary,the figure shows that some of the more dominant world languages,English in
particular,are being more widely taught,whereas other languages,with the exception of Spanish, are
becoming less popular.

WRITING TASK 1 You should spend about 20-25 minutes on this task. The diagram
below shows the water cycle, which is the continuous movement of water on,
above and below the surface of the Earth. Summarize the information by
selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.

The figure illustrates the natural process of water circulation in the ground, the oceans and air.
Overall, what goes up from the earth comes back to it. There are four main stages in this process,
beginning with evaporation and ends with joining to the oceans.
First, water evaporates to the air in the form of water vapor,eighty percent of which comes from
the oceans. Second, the water vapour condenses and forms cloud at a certain distance from the
ground and later precipitates back to earth as tiny water droplets called rain.
Finally, the water that reaches the ground surface, eventually joins the oceans in two different
ways. One is it directly run off to the ocean and second,it percolates in to the ground water and
gradually mix with the ocean water by taking some minerals, such as salt from the ground.
In summary, nature balances its water in a continuous process of vaporation,condensation and
precipitation