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

Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Казырбаева, Дворецкая 11 класс, Титул: 5 С. Fill in the gaps with the present perfect or past simple of the verbs in brackets. 1 The Welsh language … (be spoken) for about twelve centuries already. 2 The Manx language … (be spoken) on the Isle of Man up to the end of the 19th century. 3 A hundred and twenty-five Native American languages … (disappear) up to now. 4 Bruce Connell … (return) to Cameroon, but Bogon, the last speaker of Kasabe, had died. 5 Pre-Columbian people … (speak) 300 languages at the time Columbus landed in America. 6 Of the 175 or so languages recorded across the Russian Federation, about half a dozen … (by now / come) to the edge of extinction. 7 When … the tribe council… (decide) that it would not develop a written form of the language? 8 Linguists found that only 500 Kets, north-west Siberian people, … (speak) their own language competently in 1993. *Цитирирование части задания со ссылкой на учебник производится исключительно в учебных целях для лучшего понимания разбора решения задания.

The correct forms are:

1. The Welsh language has been spoken for about twelve centuries already.
2. The Manx language was spoken on the Isle of Man up to the end of the 19th century.
3. A hundred and twenty-five Native American languages have disappeared up to now.
4. Bruce Connell returned to Cameroon, but Bogon, the last speaker of Kasabe, had died.
5. Pre-Columbian people spoke 300 languages at the time Columbus landed in America.
6. Of the 175 or so languages recorded across the Russian Federation, about half a dozen have by now come to the edge of extinction.
7. When did the tribe council decide that it would not develop a written form of the language?
8. Linguists found that only 500 Kets, north-west Siberian people, were speaking their own language competently in 1993.

Explanation: use the present perfect for actions connected with the present or continuing up to now, and the past simple for finished actions in the past.