Упр.3b Уроки 5-6 Юнит 1 New Millennium English 11 класс

3. B. Listen to the second part of the lecture and complete the mind map.
   Why did David Crystal call the present situation about language extinction extraordinary?

Language extinction:

• There are now about 6,000 languages in the world.
• A language dies every two weeks.
• Half of the world’s languages will die during the 21st century.
• A language with 100,000 speakers may die within two generations.

David Crystal called the present situation extraordinary because languages have never disappeared at such a high rate before.