Looking back

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: WHY DO LANGUAGES DIE?

    In an article recently published in The New Yorker, the issue of endangered languages is explored in depth. They report a concern that up to half (6) _______ today’s living languages are in danger and will be extinct by the end of the 21st century, other than what (7) _______ preserved in archives. This means a language dies on average every four months.

    Languages (8) _______ for many reasons. Some are cultural. For example, many cultures have been colonised or otherwise (9) _______ by another culture. Often, this translated into suppressing the native culture’s (10) _______ tongue. If these conditions lasted long enough, then these languages dwindled, were only spoken in secret or died out altogether.

    Numerous examples exist in North America, where (11) _______ people, now known as First Nations’ people, have (12) _______ lost or are in grave danger of losing any working knowledge of their mother tongue.

    In (13) _______ cases, languages may decline or die in situ, but may be holding tenuously on in another e nvironment. We can see examples in immigrant communities (14) _______ New York to South Africa. Furthermore, many dying languages can be hard to (15) _______ if their tradition was mostly oral, with few written records ever in existence.

(https://www.communicaid.com/business-language-courses/blog/why-are-languages-dying)

*in situ: in the original or correct place.  

 For example, many cultures have been colonised or otherwise (9) _______ by another culture.

1. captured
2. kept
3. dominated
4. imitated

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: WHY DO LANGUAGES DIE?

    In an article recently published in The New Yorker, the issue of endangered languages is explored in depth. They report a concern that up to half (6) _______ today’s living languages are in danger and will be extinct by the end of the 21st century, other than what (7) _______ preserved in archives. This means a language dies on average every four months.

    Languages (8) _______ for many reasons. Some are cultural. For example, many cultures have been colonised or otherwise (9) _______ by another culture. Often, this translated into suppressing the native culture’s (10) _______ tongue. If these conditions lasted long enough, then these languages dwindled, were only spoken in secret or died out altogether.

    Numerous examples exist in North America, where (11) _______ people, now known as First Nations’ people, have (12) _______ lost or are in grave danger of losing any working knowledge of their mother tongue.

    In (13) _______ cases, languages may decline or die in situ, but may be holding tenuously on in another e nvironment. We can see examples in immigrant communities (14) _______ New York to South Africa. Furthermore, many dying languages can be hard to (15) _______ if their tradition was mostly oral, with few written records ever in existence.

(https://www.communicaid.com/business-language-courses/blog/why-are-languages-dying)

*in situ: in the original or correct place.  

 For example, many cultures have been colonised or otherwise (9) _______ by another culture.

1. captured
2. kept
3. dominated
4. imitated

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: WHY DO LANGUAGES DIE?

    In an article recently published in The New Yorker, the issue of endangered languages is explored in depth. They report a concern that up to half (6) _______ today’s living languages are in danger and will be extinct by the end of the 21st century, other than what (7) _______ preserved in archives. This means a language dies on average every four months.

    Languages (8) _______ for many reasons. Some are cultural. For example, many cultures have been colonised or otherwise (9) _______ by another culture. Often, this translated into suppressing the native culture’s (10) _______ tongue. If these conditions lasted long enough, then these languages dwindled, were only spoken in secret or died out altogether.

    Numerous examples exist in North America, where (11) _______ people, now known as First Nations’ people, have (12) _______ lost or are in grave danger of losing any working knowledge of their mother tongue.

    In (13) _______ cases, languages may decline or die in situ, but may be holding tenuously on in another e nvironment. We can see examples in immigrant communities (14) _______ New York to South Africa. Furthermore, many dying languages can be hard to (15) _______ if their tradition was mostly oral, with few written records ever in existence.

(https://www.communicaid.com/business-language-courses/blog/why-are-languages-dying)

*in situ: in the original or correct place.  

Often, this translated into suppressing the native culture’s (10) _______ tongue.

1. first
2. native
3. monolingual
4. mother

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: WHY DO LANGUAGES DIE?

    In an article recently published in The New Yorker, the issue of endangered languages is explored in depth. They report a concern that up to half (6) _______ today’s living languages are in danger and will be extinct by the end of the 21st century, other than what (7) _______ preserved in archives. This means a language dies on average every four months.

    Languages (8) _______ for many reasons. Some are cultural. For example, many cultures have been colonised or otherwise (9) _______ by another culture. Often, this translated into suppressing the native culture’s (10) _______ tongue. If these conditions lasted long enough, then these languages dwindled, were only spoken in secret or died out altogether.

    Numerous examples exist in North America, where (11) _______ people, now known as First Nations’ people, have (12) _______ lost or are in grave danger of losing any working knowledge of their mother tongue.

    In (13) _______ cases, languages may decline or die in situ, but may be holding tenuously on in another e nvironment. We can see examples in immigrant communities (14) _______ New York to South Africa. Furthermore, many dying languages can be hard to (15) _______ if their tradition was mostly oral, with few written records ever in existence.

(https://www.communicaid.com/business-language-courses/blog/why-are-languages-dying)

*in situ: in the original or correct place.  

Numerous examples exist in North America, where (11) _______ people, now known as First Nations’ people, …

1. indigenous
2. foreign
3. old
4. prehistoric

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: WHY DO LANGUAGES DIE?

    In an article recently published in The New Yorker, the issue of endangered languages is explored in depth. They report a concern that up to half (6) _______ today’s living languages are in danger and will be extinct by the end of the 21st century, other than what (7) _______ preserved in archives. This means a language dies on average every four months.

    Languages (8) _______ for many reasons. Some are cultural. For example, many cultures have been colonised or otherwise (9) _______ by another culture. Often, this translated into suppressing the native culture’s (10) _______ tongue. If these conditions lasted long enough, then these languages dwindled, were only spoken in secret or died out altogether.

    Numerous examples exist in North America, where (11) _______ people, now known as First Nations’ people, have (12) _______ lost or are in grave danger of losing any working knowledge of their mother tongue.

    In (13) _______ cases, languages may decline or die in situ, but may be holding tenuously on in another e nvironment. We can see examples in immigrant communities (14) _______ New York to South Africa. Furthermore, many dying languages can be hard to (15) _______ if their tradition was mostly oral, with few written records ever in existence.

(https://www.communicaid.com/business-language-courses/blog/why-are-languages-dying)

*in situ: in the original or correct place.  

Numerous examples exist in North America, where (11) _______ people, now known as First Nations’ people, have (12) _______ lost or are in grave danger of losing any working knowledge of their mother tongue.

1. either
2. neither 
3. and
4. both

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: WHY DO LANGUAGES DIE?

    In an article recently published in The New Yorker, the issue of endangered languages is explored in depth. They report a concern that up to half (6) _______ today’s living languages are in danger and will be extinct by the end of the 21st century, other than what (7) _______ preserved in archives. This means a language dies on average every four months.

    Languages (8) _______ for many reasons. Some are cultural. For example, many cultures have been colonised or otherwise (9) _______ by another culture. Often, this translated into suppressing the native culture’s (10) _______ tongue. If these conditions lasted long enough, then these languages dwindled, were only spoken in secret or died out altogether.

    Numerous examples exist in North America, where (11) _______ people, now known as First Nations’ people, have (12) _______ lost or are in grave danger of losing any working knowledge of their mother tongue.

    In (13) _______ cases, languages may decline or die in situ, but may be holding tenuously on in another e nvironment. We can see examples in immigrant communities (14) _______ New York to South Africa. Furthermore, many dying languages can be hard to (15) _______ if their tradition was mostly oral, with few written records ever in existence.

(https://www.communicaid.com/business-language-courses/blog/why-are-languages-dying)

*in situ: in the original or correct place.  

In (13) _______ cases, languages may decline or die in situ, but may be holding tenuously on in another environment.

1. others
2. another
3. more
4. other

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: WHY DO LANGUAGES DIE?

    In an article recently published in The New Yorker, the issue of endangered languages is explored in depth. They report a concern that up to half (6) _______ today’s living languages are in danger and will be extinct by the end of the 21st century, other than what (7) _______ preserved in archives. This means a language dies on average every four months.

    Languages (8) _______ for many reasons. Some are cultural. For example, many cultures have been colonised or otherwise (9) _______ by another culture. Often, this translated into suppressing the native culture’s (10) _______ tongue. If these conditions lasted long enough, then these languages dwindled, were only spoken in secret or died out altogether.

    Numerous examples exist in North America, where (11) _______ people, now known as First Nations’ people, have (12) _______ lost or are in grave danger of losing any working knowledge of their mother tongue.

    In (13) _______ cases, languages may decline or die in situ, but may be holding tenuously on in another e nvironment. We can see examples in immigrant communities (14) _______ New York to South Africa. Furthermore, many dying languages can be hard to (15) _______ if their tradition was mostly oral, with few written records ever in existence.

(https://www.communicaid.com/business-language-courses/blog/why-are-languages-dying)

*in situ: in the original or correct place.  

 We can see examples in immigrant communities (14) _______ New York to South Africa.

1. between
2. both
3. from
4. against

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: WHY DO LANGUAGES DIE?

    In an article recently published in The New Yorker, the issue of endangered languages is explored in depth. They report a concern that up to half (6) _______ today’s living languages are in danger and will be extinct by the end of the 21st century, other than what (7) _______ preserved in archives. This means a language dies on average every four months.

    Languages (8) _______ for many reasons. Some are cultural. For example, many cultures have been colonised or otherwise (9) _______ by another culture. Often, this translated into suppressing the native culture’s (10) _______ tongue. If these conditions lasted long enough, then these languages dwindled, were only spoken in secret or died out altogether.

    Numerous examples exist in North America, where (11) _______ people, now known as First Nations’ people, have (12) _______ lost or are in grave danger of losing any working knowledge of their mother tongue.

    In (13) _______ cases, languages may decline or die in situ, but may be holding tenuously on in another e nvironment. We can see examples in immigrant communities (14) _______ New York to South Africa. Furthermore, many dying languages can be hard to (15) _______ if their tradition was mostly oral, with few written records ever in existence.

(https://www.communicaid.com/business-language-courses/blog/why-are-languages-dying)

*in situ: in the original or correct place.  

 Furthermore, many dying languages can be hard to (15) _______ if their tradition was mostly oral, with few written records ever in existence.

1. give up
2. die out
3. preserve
4. reverse

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: WHY DO LANGUAGES DIE?

    In an article recently published in The New Yorker, the issue of endangered languages is explored in depth. They report a concern that up to half (6) _______ today’s living languages are in danger and will be extinct by the end of the 21st century, other than what (7) _______ preserved in archives. This means a language dies on average every four months.

    Languages (8) _______ for many reasons. Some are cultural. For example, many cultures have been colonised or otherwise (9) _______ by another culture. Often, this translated into suppressing the native culture’s (10) _______ tongue. If these conditions lasted long enough, then these languages dwindled, were only spoken in secret or died out altogether.

    Numerous examples exist in North America, where (11) _______ people, now known as First Nations’ people, have (12) _______ lost or are in grave danger of losing any working knowledge of their mother tongue.

    In (13) _______ cases, languages may decline or die in situ, but may be holding tenuously on in another e nvironment. We can see examples in immigrant communities (14) _______ New York to South Africa. Furthermore, many dying languages can be hard to (15) _______ if their tradition was mostly oral, with few written records ever in existence.

(https://www.communicaid.com/business-language-courses/blog/why-are-languages-dying)

*in situ: in the original or correct place.  

 Furthermore, many dying languages can be hard to (15) _______ if their tradition was mostly oral, with few written records ever in existence.

1. give up
2. die out
3. preserve
4. reverse

Use the prompts and the word in bracket to write the sentence.

foreign / universities / use / English, / learn / it / very / important (since)

1. Since foreign universities to use English, learning it is very important.
2. Since foreign universities use English, learning it is very important.
3. Foreign universities use English since learning it is very important.
4. Since foreign universities use English to learn it very important.

Use the prompts and the word in bracket to write the sentence.

we / want / learn / new English words, / we / watch / TV / with / subtitles (as)

1. As we want to learn new English words, we watch TV with the subtitles.
2. We want to learn new English words as we watch TV with the subtitles.
3. As we want to learn new English words because we watch TV with the subtitles.
4. As we want to learn new English words, we to watch TV with the subtitles.

Use the prompts and the word in bracket to write the sentence.

are / you / learn / English / you / want / live / overseas? (because)

1. Are you to learn English because of you want to live overseas?
2. Are you learning English because you want to live overseas?
3. Are you learning English because you want live overseas?
4. Are you learned English because you want to live overseas?

Use the prompts and the word in bracket to write the sentence.

you / watch / lot of / English / content, / can / teach / us / any / new / words? (since)

1. Because of you watch a lot of English content, can you teach us any new words?
2. Since you watch lot of English content, can you to teach us any new words?
3. Since you watch a lot of English content, you can teach us any new words?
4. Since you watch a lot of English content, can you teach us any new words?

Read the passage, and do the tasks that follow.

Bat Trang Pottery Village

Bat Trang, a traditional porcelain and pottery village with history of seven centuries, is an interesting attraction in Ha Noi that tourists should not ignore.

Located in an area rich in clay, the village has advantage of ingredients to create fine ceramics. Moreover, lying beside the Red River, between Thang Long and Pho Hien, two ancient trade centers in the north of Viet Nam during the 15th - 17th centuries. Bat Trang's ceramics were favourite products not only in the domesticmarket, but also foreign ones thanks to Japanese, Chinese and Western trading boats that passed by.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, due to restricting foreign trade policy of Trinh, Nguyen dynasties, it was difficult for pottery products in Viet Nam to be exported to foreign countries, and some famous pottery-making villages like Bat Trang, or Chu Dau (Hai Duong province) went through a hard time. Since 1986, thanks to economic reforms and development, more attention has been paid to the village and the world gets a chance to know more about Vietnamese porcelain through many high quality exported Bat Trang's ceramic products.

Bat Trang ceramics are produced for daily household use (bows,cups, plates, pots, bottles…), worshipping, or decoration purposes. Nowadays, the pottery artists bring into ceramics many innovations in production techniques, and creativity in products' features, so many new products have been made, and even daily household items may have the beauty like decoration ones.

Visiting Bat Trang, tourists can visit Bat Trang Porcelain and Pottery Market where they can directly make pottery products by themselves. Many youngsters and foreign tourists are interested in this pottery-making experience, and spend a whole day in the market making a souvenir for their families or friends.

Task 1: Match a word in column A with its definition in column B, writing the answer in each blank.

Question 2:​

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D

Read the passage, and do the tasks that follow.

Bat Trang Pottery Village

Bat Trang, a traditional porcelain and pottery village with history of seven centuries, is an interesting attraction in Ha Noi that tourists should not ignore.

Located in an area rich in clay, the village has advantage of ingredients to create fine ceramics. Moreover, lying beside the Red River, between Thang Long and Pho Hien, two ancient trade centers in the north of Viet Nam during the 15th - 17th centuries. Bat Trang's ceramics were favourite products not only in the domesticmarket, but also foreign ones thanks to Japanese, Chinese and Western trading boats that passed by.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, due to restricting foreign trade policy of Trinh, Nguyen dynasties, it was difficult for pottery products in Viet Nam to be exported to foreign countries, and some famous pottery-making villages like Bat Trang, or Chu Dau (Hai Duong province) went through a hard time. Since 1986, thanks to economic reforms and development, more attention has been paid to the village and the world gets a chance to know more about Vietnamese porcelain through many high quality exported Bat Trang's ceramic products.

Bat Trang ceramics are produced for daily household use (bows,cups, plates, pots, bottles…), worshipping, or decoration purposes. Nowadays, the pottery artists bring into ceramics many innovations in production techniques, and creativity in products' features, so many new products have been made, and even daily household items may have the beauty like decoration ones.

Visiting Bat Trang, tourists can visit Bat Trang Porcelain and Pottery Market where they can directly make pottery products by themselves. Many youngsters and foreign tourists are interested in this pottery-making experience, and spend a whole day in the market making a souvenir for their families or friends.

Task 1: Match a word in column A with its definition in column B, writing the answer in each blank.

Question 3:​

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D

Read the passage, and do the tasks that follow.

Bat Trang Pottery Village

Bat Trang, a traditional porcelain and pottery village with history of seven centuries, is an interesting attraction in Ha Noi that tourists should not ignore.

Located in an area rich in clay, the village has advantage of ingredients to create fine ceramics. Moreover, lying beside the Red River, between Thang Long and Pho Hien, two ancient trade centers in the north of Viet Nam during the 15th - 17th centuries. Bat Trang's ceramics were favourite products not only in the domesticmarket, but also foreign ones thanks to Japanese, Chinese and Western trading boats that passed by.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, due to restricting foreign trade policy of Trinh, Nguyen dynasties, it was difficult for pottery products in Viet Nam to be exported to foreign countries, and some famous pottery-making villages like Bat Trang, or Chu Dau (Hai Duong province) went through a hard time. Since 1986, thanks to economic reforms and development, more attention has been paid to the village and the world gets a chance to know more about Vietnamese porcelain through many high quality exported Bat Trang's ceramic products.

Bat Trang ceramics are produced for daily household use (bows,cups, plates, pots, bottles…), worshipping, or decoration purposes. Nowadays, the pottery artists bring into ceramics many innovations in production techniques, and creativity in products' features, so many new products have been made, and even daily household items may have the beauty like decoration ones.

Visiting Bat Trang, tourists can visit Bat Trang Porcelain and Pottery Market where they can directly make pottery products by themselves. Many youngsters and foreign tourists are interested in this pottery-making experience, and spend a whole day in the market making a souvenir for their families or friends.

Task 1: Match a word in column A with its definition in column B, writing the answer in each blank.

Question 4:​

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D

Read the passage, and do the tasks that follow.

Bat Trang Pottery Village

Bat Trang, a traditional porcelain and pottery village with history of seven centuries, is an interesting attraction in Ha Noi that tourists should not ignore.

Located in an area rich in clay, the village has advantage of ingredients to create fine ceramics. Moreover, lying beside the Red River, between Thang Long and Pho Hien, two ancient trade centers in the north of Viet Nam during the 15th - 17th centuries. Bat Trang's ceramics were favourite products not only in the domesticmarket, but also foreign ones thanks to Japanese, Chinese and Western trading boats that passed by.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, due to restricting foreign trade policy of Trinh, Nguyen dynasties, it was difficult for pottery products in Viet Nam to be exported to foreign countries, and some famous pottery-making villages like Bat Trang, or Chu Dau (Hai Duong province) went through a hard time. Since 1986, thanks to economic reforms and development, more attention has been paid to the village and the world gets a chance to know more about Vietnamese porcelain through many high quality exported Bat Trang's ceramic products.

Bat Trang ceramics are produced for daily household use (bows,cups, plates, pots, bottles…), worshipping, or decoration purposes. Nowadays, the pottery artists bring into ceramics many innovations in production techniques, and creativity in products' features, so many new products have been made, and even daily household items may have the beauty like decoration ones.

Visiting Bat Trang, tourists can visit Bat Trang Porcelain and Pottery Market where they can directly make pottery products by themselves. Many youngsters and foreign tourists are interested in this pottery-making experience, and spend a whole day in the market making a souvenir for their families or friends.

Read the passage again, and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).

Bat Trang pottery has been developed since the 7th century.

1. True   
2. False