III. Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.

Hi everyone. My name is Bill. I'm twelve years (11)__________ I'm studying at Le Van Tam secondary school. There are twelve (12)__________ in the school curriculum and my favorites are English and physics. I (13)__________ like P.E. because I hate outdoor activities. Besides, my school offers a lot of extracurricular activities. I enjoy acting so I sign (14)__________ for a drama club. My club often meets at weekends and we (15)__________ really good time together.

Read the following paragraph and complete it with one suitable word in each blank

Canada is an officially bilingual country, with two official _________ (1): French and English. French speaking Canadians take a much smaller percentage of the population, and more _________ (2) 90 per cent of them live in Quebec – the only province where French is the language of daily life. 3.8 million Quebecers can only speak French, _________ (3) another 3.2 million can speak French and English. Together those groups comprise basically the entire provincial population. Canadians who speak neither English _________ (4) French as their first language are sometimes called Allophones, and the majority of these people are either immigrants or their children.

Question 1:

Read the following paragraph and complete it with one suitable word in each blank

Canada is an officially bilingual country, with two official _________ (1): French and English. French speaking Canadians take a much smaller percentage of the population, and more _________ (2) 90 per cent of them live in Quebec – the only province where French is the language of daily life. 3.8 million Quebecers can only speak French, _________ (3) another 3.2 million can speak French and English. Together those groups comprise basically the entire provincial population. Canadians who speak neither English _________ (4) French as their first language are sometimes called Allophones, and the majority of these people are either immigrants or their children.

Question 2:

Read the following paragraph and complete it with one suitable word in each blank

Canada is an officially bilingual country, with two official _________ (1): French and English. French speaking Canadians take a much smaller percentage of the population, and more _________ (2) 90 per cent of them live in Quebec – the only province where French is the language of daily life. 3.8 million Quebecers can only speak French, _________ (3) another 3.2 million can speak French and English. Together those groups comprise basically the entire provincial population. Canadians who speak neither English _________ (4) French as their first language are sometimes called Allophones, and the majority of these people are either immigrants or their children.

Question 4:

Read the following paragraph and complete it with one suitable word in each blank

Canada is an officially bilingual country, with two official _________ (1): French and English. French speaking Canadians take a much smaller percentage of the population, and more _________ (2) 90 per cent of them live in Quebec – the only province where French is the language of daily life. 3.8 million Quebecers can only speak French, _________ (3) another 3.2 million can speak French and English. Together those groups comprise basically the entire provincial population. Canadians who speak neither English _________ (4) French as their first language are sometimes called Allophones, and the majority of these people are either immigrants or their children.

Question 3:

VII. Fill in each blank with a suitable word to complete the paragraph (2 points)

GOOD AT LANGUAGES

At school, Sarah Biggs says she was very bad at languages. Now she speaks English, Spanish and Italian and works (1)____________ a bilingual secretary in a travel company in England. (2)____________ several foreign languages at work is not easy, but for Sarah, and other multi-lingual secretaries like her, it is all standard practice.

Sarah comes from Spain, (3)____________ she attended school and college. But it was time spent abroad after college that encouraged her interest in languages.

In her job, Sarah has a great deal more responsibility than the title of secretary would suggest. She stresses the importance of (4)____________ fluent in Spanish because part of her job is dealing (5)____________ customers from Latin America. (6)____________ such clients come from abroad, she has to translate everything they say into English. She is given (7)____________ time for preparation at all, so this aspect of her job is one of the (8)____________ difficult.

It is important for Sarah to be up-to-date with changes (9)____________ her own language, so she reads Spanish newspapers and books looking for new additions to her vocabulary. Sarah says she (10)____________ not give up this job even if they offered her a better salary in another company.

Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition.

21. Many of the students are bilingual ………………Spanish and English.

22. Linda picked ………………a bit of Italian when she was staying in Pisa.

23. She’s fluent ………………Polish and French and can speak a little Italian.

24. I could just about get ………………in English when I first went to the UK.

25. When Imani came to Ireland he could not speak a word ………………English.

26. English is taught at school ………………a second language in many countries.

27. She works for the United Nations, translating ………………English into French.

28. One of the characteristic features of English is its openness ………………vocabulary.

29. For some reasons, my teacher thinks that I’m not good enough ………………languages.

30. English owes its dominant status ………………its link to two of the world’s most powerful nations: the US and the UK.

Read the following paragraph and complete it with one suitable word in each blank
Canada is an officially bilingual country, with two official _________ (1): French and English. French
speaking Canadians take a much smaller percentage of the population, and more _________ (2) 90 per
cent of them live in Quebec – the only province where French is the language of daily life. 3.8 million
Quebecers can only speak French, _________ (3) another 3.2 million can speak French and English.
Together those groups comprise basically the entire provincial population. Canadians who speak
neither English _________ (4) French as their first language are sometimes called Allophones, and the
majority of these people are either immigrants or their children.

Read the following paragraph and complete it with one suitable word in each blank.

Canada is an officially bilingual country,with two official(1)..........:French and English.French speaking Cadadians take a much smaller percentage of pollution, and more(2)............... 90 per cent of them live in Quebec-the only province where French is the language of daily life 3.8 mililion quebecers can only speak French(3).............another 3.2 million can speak French and English.Togerther those groups comprise basically the entire provincial population.Canadians who s[peaks neither English(4)......... French as their first language arew sometimes called Allophones...