6
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Find and correct the mistakes in sentences 1-6. There is one mistake
in each sentence.
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0. Margaret knows some foreign languages so she wants to be a
diplomacy-diplomat
1. English is the widespread most and a major world language.
2. The whole report is badly written. However, it’s inaccurate.
3. English is the major language of international conferences,
airline
services, medicine, diplomat and international competitions.
4. Germany plays a role in the European Union major.
5. This is one possible solution to the problem. Moreover, there
are
others.
6. Most players would, of course, sign the contract hesitation
without.
RULES
- We use/don’t use the definite article THE before the names of
countries/cities/languages.
- We use/don’t use the definite article THE before the names of
nationalities.
- We use/don’t use the definite article THE when the name of a language
is followed by the word “language”.
See page 183
8
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Fill in the gaps with the suitable articles.
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0. English is the language of
diplomacy, sports and music.
1.
Dieter is from xxx Germany, so he speaks xxx
German fluently.
2.
Hiroko lives in xxx Baku. She can speak xxx
Azerbaijani, but her native language is
xxx Japanese.
3.
Gabriella and Isabella are from xxx Spain.
They are xxx Spanish. They can speak both
xxx Spanish and xxx
English very well.
4.
Jane is from xxx France. As she has lived in China, apart from xxx French, she also speaks
xxx Chinese
language.
5.
Muhammad is from Morocco. He knows some foreign languages. He speaks xxx Arabic,
xxx English and xxx
French.
6.
xxx Japanese have a long and interesting history. Their official
language is xxx Japanese.