Question

POR FAVOR ENCAIXEM AS PALAVRAS NO TEXTO!!!!!!

Add the words that were removed from the text/ Acrescente as palavras que foram retiradas do texto:


English – business – answer – everywhere – speakers – communicate – died – everybody – tongue – misunderstandings – world – common – from – tool – powerful – news – opinion – puzzle – global – roots – son



The English language is (1). The language of most of the Internet sites around the world is (2). We are using this language to write our articles on this site, even though I am positive that English is not the first language of (3) using this website. It is not my first language, I come (4) Finland. I learned English at school. It is the most widely studied language in the (5).

It is the language of media, medicine and (6). Computing uses English as does the international airtraffic control. But is the spread of this language a good thing or a bad one, is the spread of one such a (7) language a disadvantage or an advantage?

This is a difficult question to (8). Academics in the field of linguistics have tried to find the best solution for this (9) for decades now. One disadvantage which is often mentioned in this context is the fact that many languages have (10)because of the spread of English. Many still have lost a large number of (11) and are bound to be doomed in the near future. These are the disadvantages, and while they certainly seem gloomy, there are many advantages of having a(12) language.

Doctors, for instance, from around the world can (13) with each other while using one language. As a consequence of numerous people knowing this language there are less (14) which of course in medicine could be fatal. People from all corners of the world can communicate easier because they share a (15) language. Media can more easily tell us the most recent (16) from all over the world. People can use the Internet as a (17) for research, which means more people are being educated about different issues.

I am happy that my (18) will speak this wonderful language as his first language, I am sure that I will learn a lot from him when he enters school in the UK. However, I wish that my son would also be able to speak Finnish as this is my mother (19). It is important for a person’s identity to remember their (20), and language is a very integral part of one’s identity. Are people whose languages are being lost because of the dominance of the English language losing their identities then? As you can see, the question is a difficult one to answer, and in my (21) there is no right or wrong answer.

Answer 1

1 - Everywhere
2 - English
3 - Puzzle
4 - From
5 - World
6 - Business
7 - Powerful
8 - Everybody
9 - Answer
10 - Died
11 - Speaker
12 - Global
13 - Communicate
14 - Misunderstandings
15 - Common
16 - News
17 -  Tool
18 - Son
19 - Tongue
20 - Roots
21 - Opinion