Interesting facts about English

Exercise 22. Consider some Cambridge English exams. Match each acronym with the official names of various tests or qualifications in English

	1. YLE	A. Preliminary English Test
	2. PET	B. Certificate of Proficiency in English
	3. KET	C. Certificate in Advanced English
	4. FCE	D. Key English test
	5. CAE	E. Young Learners English Test
	6. CPE	F. First Certificate in English
	7. TKT	G. International English Language Testing System
	8. TOEFL	H. Teaching Knowledge Test
	9. IELTS	I. Test of English as a Foreign Language

Exercise 23. Read some interesting facts about the English language and add your observations.

1. No word in the English language rhymes with month.

2. Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt.

3. The word set has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

4. Underground is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters und.

5. There are only four words in the English language which end in - dous: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

6. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

7. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

8. The word almost is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

9. The most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E. 1 out of every 8 letters written is e.

10. I am is the shortest complete sentence.

11. The oldest word in the English language is town.

12. Rhythm is the longest English word without a vowel.

13. More English words begin with the letter s than with any other letter.

14. The following sentence contains all 26 letters of the alphabet: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. This sentence is often used to test typewriters or keyboards.

15. English is arguably the richest in vocabulary; the Oxford English Dictionary lists about 500,000 words, and there are a half-million technical and scientific terms still uncatalogued (http://www.knowledgebase-script.com).

Exercise 24. Match the names of the countries with their official languages.

	Country		Language
	Australia		French
	China		Finnish
	Britain		Dutch
	Cyprus		English
	Denmark		Danish
	Egypt		Portuguese
	Finland		English
	France		Chinese
	Holland		Polish
	Hungary		Spanish
	Poland		Greek
	Portugal		Arabic
	Russia		English
	Spain		Hungarian
	Turkey		Turkish
	Ukraine		Russian
	the USA		Ukrainian

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