Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.2 - A global language? for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

Work in pairs. Read about the radio programme and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. They discuss the evolution of English, and how it might change in the future.
  2. i) the fact that far more people speak English as a second language than a first; ii) the influence of computers and automatic translators
  3. changes in pronunciation and vocabulary