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

Задача

Fill in the gaps with the present perfect or past simple of the verbs in brackets.

The Welsh language … (be spoken) for about twelve centuries already.
The Manx language … (be spoken) on the Isle of Man up to the end of the 19th century.
A hundred and twenty-five Native American languages … (disappear) up to now.
Bruce Connell … (return) to Cameroon, but Bogon, the last speaker of Kasabe, had died.
Pre-Columbian people … (speak) 300 languages at the time Columbus landed in America.
Of the 175 or so languages recorded across the Russian Federation, about half a dozen … (by now / come) to the edge of extinction.
When … the tribe council … (decide) that it would not develop a written form of the language?
Linguists found that only 500 Kets, north-west Siberian people, … (speak) their own language competently in 1993.

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The correct forms are:

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

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