Esperanto

Spoken today by ______people. Developed at the end of the____by L.L. Zamenhof. He thought that common language would help to avoid conflict and prevent_____. He thought that exciting languages (French, German, Russian, English) were ____for people to learn. He proposed a new language where everyone would be ______. That language was Esperanto. So, Esperanto is______ to learn than other languages? Yes, much easier. Experts say that for an English speaker, Esperanto is five times easier to learn than French or Spanish, ten times easier than Russian, and 20 times easier than Chinese or Arabic. Esperanto is spoken as a second language in about 90 countries of the world, it’s on the school ______ in China, Hungary, Bulgaria and it’s also being taught in some British schools as a way of helping students to learn other languages.

1.Choose the right variant. I don’t like stories… have unhappy endings.

a) where

b) they

c) that

d) who

2. Choose the right variant. What is the name of the man….?

a) you borrowed his car

b) which car you borrowed

c) whose car you borrowed

d) his car you borrowed

3.Choose the right variant. “pathology” (noun)

a) something produced from imagination, an invented story

b) a word with similar meaning to another word in the same language

c) an indentation, a temporary break

d) the study of diseases

4. Choose the right variant. “prestige” (noun)

a) readable, clear enough to read

b) drawings or writing on a wall

c) sharing another person’s feelings, the ability to feel; feel another person’s suffering

d) respect for a person or a thing