UNIT1
UBIQUITY OF ENGLISH
Look at the pictures and answer the following questions.
1. What words come to your mind when you see
pictures?
2. What language are these words and do they have
any equivalents in your own language?
3. What other examples of English in your daily life
can you give?
1 Look at the photos and discuss the places you 3. In what areas of Tashkent city English signs are
see with your partner. less popular?
e Possible location and services they offer a) Chorsu, Chopon ota, b) Kukcha
• Language used on the signboards c) all areas
• Similar places you know 4. According to the speaker’s opinion, what place
can be good to enlarge one’s vocabulary?
a) City center b) Chopon ota street
c) language centers
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3 Complete the sentences using the expressions
from the box. Explain their meaning.
is inevitable; tonal nature; c o n s t r u c t e d
rationally; in the foreseeable future; much
less so the case; to say nothing of; inveterate
homemakers;
1. In order to make it neutral and easily absorbed
Esperanto w as____________________________
2. I t ______________ that English becomes a single
international language.
3. A specific ______________ of the Chinese
2 (T1) Look through the following questions.
Listen and according to the record choose language hampers its spreading.
the right answers. (More than one answer is 4. Popularity of French as a language of diplomacy
possible). and exchange i s ___________________________
1. What makes communication easier? 5. English is unlikely to be replaced by any other
a) language learning b) words language _________________________________
c) knowledge of English 6. Common words and expressions like ‘open’,
2. What languages were offered as an alternative ‘close’, ‘enter’, ‘shop’, ‘happy’ are popular even
international language? a m o n g _________________________________
a) Chinese, Russian b) Mandarin, French 7. English words are popular enough in all cities and
c) Esperanto towns tourist centers.
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4 Look at the pictures and make a list of some other English words you think are known among
particular groups of people in Uzbekistan.
5 Match the labels in the box and the sentences Read the descriptions a-к and decide which
1-12 below. sentence in Ex. 5 they match.
a. _____ an action which is happening at the present
1. Present Simple 2. Present Perfect 3. Present
Perfect Continuous 4. Past Perfect Continuous moment.
5. Past Simple 6. Present Continuous 7. Past b. _____a finished past action which occurs at a
Perfect 8. Future Simple 9. Future Perfect 10. specific moment in the past.
Future with 'going to' 11. Future Continuous 12. c. _____ talking about an action that is finished
Past Continuous before another action in the past. This form is
especially useful for giving reasons for a decision
1. Students are spending so much time on learning that was made in the past.
new words by heart.________________________ _____regular routines and habits.
2 . Sailors in the Mediterranean Sea used ‘lingua e. _____making a future prediction or express a
franca’ for interaction._____________________ decision about the future made at the moment.
3. They had researched the market carefully before _____something that is happening at a precise
they decided to open a new branch.____________ moment in the past; an interrupted action.
4. Diamonds don’t have much intrinsic value and _____something which has happened up to the
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their price mostly depends on their scarcity._____ present moment.
5. I think they will explain everything precisely._____ h _____the duration of an activity that begins in the
6 . Saodat was reading her favorite ‘Harry Potter’ past and continues up to the present moment.
when her brother interrupted.________________ _____ discussing an activity that will be in
7. I have figured out 51 English words while coming progress at a specific point in future.
to the university.___________________________ _____expressing the duration of an activity up to
8 . The number of English speakers has been another point in the past; stressing that a certain
increasing recently.________________________ activity had been going on before something
9. Consequently, Umar will be lying on the beach important happened.
with his family next week.___________________ _____speaking about future intentions or plans
10. We had been confusing things for two days when
made before the present moment.
they finally illuminated the difference._________
11. In my article I’m going to run through some of the
The word ‘News’ is actually an
main points of the matter.____________________ acronym standing for the four
12. Experts will surely have finished their work by the cardinal compass points - North,
end of the next month. East, West, and South!
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