Answers: SOLUCIÓNS Reading Primeira Quincena. 1.- a) England, Wales, Scotland and Nothern Ireland. b) Canada. c) True. d) False. e) True. f) False. g) True. 2.- Resposta sempre apoiándote no texto. Non hai respostas únicas para estas preguntas pero como posibles sinalamos:

a) People who speak English in the world are about 1,000 million. (Recorda que nos millares os británicos poñen coma e non punto = 1,000 vs. 1.000)

b) English spoken as a second language refers to the communication of speakers

of the same country where different native languages are spoken. English as a foreign language is for international communication

c) The concept “lingua franca” refers to the use of a language all over the world as

international instrument for trade, diplomacy, economy, religion, technology, etc d) “Anglicisms” are words that other languages borrowed from English to use in

everyday conversations. Examples: sandwich, taxi, video, jeans, penalty…

e) Over 60 countries have English as an official language f) The colonists from England took the language to the USA g) The differences are in grammar, spelling, vocabulary and accent

h) Because in his dictionary he proposed a less complex system of spelling. i) American users j) Cockney is a dialectal variant of English, which is spoken in London.

k) “RP” stands for “Received Pronuntiation”