Read the text and decide if the statements are true or false. Correct the false ones. (2 marks for a correct answer/ total 16 marks)

Learning a foreign language is not an easy thing. It is a long and slow process that takes a lot of time and efforts. Nowadays it is especially important to know foreign languages. Some people learn languages because they need them for their work, others travel abroad, for the third studying languages is a hobby. Everyone, who knows foreign languages can speak to people from other countries, read foreign writers in the original, which makes your outlook wider.

It is not surprising that many intellectuals and well-educated people are polyglots. I study English. Nowadays English has become the world’s most important language in politics, science, trade and cultural relations. Over 300 million people speak it as a mother tongue. The native speakers of English live in Great Britain, the United States of America, Australia and New Zealand. English is one of the official languages in the Irish Republic, Canada, the South Africa Republic. English is one of the official languages of the United Nations Organization and other political organizations. Half of the world’s scientific literature is in English. It is the language of computer technology.

To know English today is absolutely necessary for every educated person, for every good specialist. The English language is a wonderful language. It is the language of the great literature. It is the language of William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens. The great German poet Goethe once said, “He, who knows no foreign language, does not know his own one”. That is why in order to understand oneself and environment one has to study foreign languages.

1)English is widespread.
2)To learn English is difficult
3)Оnе must learn foreign language to get marks a school or at the university.
4)English is not important in different areas of the political and cultural life.
5)English is not the language of computers technologies.
6)Onlу English is the official language ol the United National Organization.
7)To know english today is absolutely necessary for every educated man.
8)The great German poet Goethe once said, that only that person knew his own language,who knew any foreign language

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