The key answer of exercise 6
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 11 - Word play for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning
Question
Work in groups. Discuss the questions.
Answer
- Languages may become extinct because: more people learning major languages because it helps them get a job, travel, get opportunities; many minority languages have low status in society and students need to speak another, need mainstream language to get educated; people who speak the language are dying out
- Language can be sexist in terms of using words which are gender specific (spokesman, air hostess), in using he to mean all people, etc.