Answer — Exercise 6
11 - Word play·Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book
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Work in groups. Discuss the questions.
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- 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.