Name 

: Nesrine

Family name : soffah

Level : 3rd year

Groupe : 4

Teacher : MR , Rahil Hamza

The world language

Question 1

Paraphrase paragraph 3 :

According to the british master David crystal , possibly, 350 million people use english as
their mother tongue , however , about 350 million comunicate using english langiage in
addition to their native onee. in each 6 billion peaple about the quarter to the half of them can
speak english .

Question 2 :

In the 4 th paragraph there are 3 reasons :

- The spread of the internet

- As buisness spreads across frontiers , the compant that wants to move its excutives
around and to promote the best of them ,reagrdless, of nationality , encourages the use
of english
- English has long dominated learned journals

In the 5th paragraph there are 2 reasons :

- The growth of cinema and still more of television has spread the dominant language
- A ducth or danish or even arab family has an audiovisual learning aid in its living
room , and usually the language spoken on the screen is english

Question 3 :
According to the fourth paragraph of the text ‘The World Language ‘ : If you want
your work publihed , and widely read by your peers , then english is the language of
choice .

Question 4 :
 With the developement of technology , english become widely spreaded and used in
many fields such as the internet , site webs , the computer and even the majority of
books were writting in eglish language

Brazil considers Linguistic Barricade

1- The introductory paragraph of this essay is : a series of examples

2- The main topic of this essay is : A proposed law in Brazil banning the use of English in
certain situations

3-In the secong paragraph the author has shown the main topic by saying that it is time to
fight thiis disrepect of our language

4 – reasons : People feel humiliated and offended by having to pronounce words in language
that is not theirs

People can not communicate fluently because of the abuse of foreign expressions in our
language

5- the paragraph that expresses other’s countries opposition to english is paragraph 3

Summarizing : Poland recently passed a law to enforce language purity by banning foreign
word from everyday transactions unless polish translations are provided alongside . A polish
language council will catch violators who coulf face stiff fines