Упр.4 Уроки 5-6 Юнит 1 New Millennium English 11 класс

Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Казырбаева, Дворецкая 11 класс, Титул: 4 Fill the gaps with the correct form of words from the box beside the text. • Pay attention to the form. The extinction of languages is a process that takes place nearly everywhere in the world. The rich variety of languages that must have existed in the past is diminishing and the number of languages is being (1)… rapidly. As estimated by various linguists, many of the 6,000 languages which are at present spoken in the world will not (2)… the next fifty years and will become (3)… At the moment, children no longer use twenty to fifty per cent of these languages, which makes the languages’ (4) … very uncertain. Quite a few (5) … languages within the territory of the Russian Federation are under threat of total (6)… and measures should be taken to put an end to this process of (7)… in the number of users of these languages. Linguists and ethnologists should work together with representatives of (8) … of endangered languages in order to find solutions to these problems, which will help to preserve the linguistic (9)… of our planet. *Цитирирование части задания со ссылкой на учебник производится исключительно в учебных целях для лучшего понимания разбора решения задания.

1) reduced

2) survive

3) extinct

4) future

5) minority

6) extinction

7) decrease

8) speakers

9) diversity