24. Read the text again for more detailed information and answer these questions. 1. Is there anything about the language that makes you curious? What is it? 2. Are you
interested in the origin of words? What words? 3. Who spoke English two thousand years
ago when Julius Caesar landed in Britain? 4. Was the 5th-century English like English
today? 5. How many people spoke English in Shakespeare's times? 6. How many people
speak English nowadays? 7. Which of the three languages has the most words - English,
French or German? Which one has the least words? 8. Do you think it's good to have an
international, global language? Why? 9. Why can English be called the language of business
and the language of sports? 10. From what languages did English borrow a lot of words?
11. How did the words “potato”, “tomato” and “tobacco" find their way into English?
12. What words came into English from other languages? 13. What else about the history of
English would you like to know?
