Cover of the textbook Wider World 4 - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter BBC Culture 7 for the textbook Wider World 4 - Student's Book with authors Suzanne Gaynor, Kathryn Alevizos and Carolyn Barraclough from Pearson Education

Question

Read the text and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. There are three times as many non-native speakers as native speakers. It is spoken all over the world. People from two different countries often use English to communicate with each other.
  2. A simplified English spoken by non-native speakers.
  3. About 600 million.
  4. New words have been introduced into the language.
  5. Because they are slang words.