Lecture: The Loss of the World's Languages
IELTS Listening Practicehard
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Questions
Questions 1–3
The scale of the crisis
1
There are roughly ______ thousand languages spoken today.(max 1 word)
2
About ______ of these may disappear by the end of the century.(max 1 word)
3
More than half of all languages have fewer than ______ thousand speakers.(max 1 word)
Questions 4–6
Two ways a language can die
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Sudden death: the language disappears abruptly because its ______ die.(max 1 word)
5
Gradual death: this type is more ______ than sudden death.(max 1 word)
6
Gradual death: it happens as ______ stop passing the language to their children.(max 1 word)
Questions 7–9
Why languages are given up and why they matter
7
The main reason parents drop a language is ______.(max 1 word)
8
Minority languages are often wrongly seen as lacking ______ compared with dominant ones.(max 1 word)
9
Losing a language can weaken a community's sense of ______.(max 1 word)
Question 10
Answer the question below.
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Which language is given as the classic success story of revival?(max 2 words)
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