UTokyo English Academia

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1) Choose the correct combination of the roots of English (place) and people who lived there (inhabitants).

a. Wales (place) and Celtic people (inhabitants)

b. England (place) and the ancient Britons (inhabitants)

c. Northern Germany (place) and the Saxons, the Jutes and the Angles (inhabitants)

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2) What did Dr Galloway NOT mention as the channels through which English has spread?

a. Settler colonisation

b. Domestic trade in the UK

c. Globalisation

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3) What is the main reason behind the spread of English as a global lingua franca?

a. Its relevance to economic power (especially that of the USA) and the British colonisation of the Americas, Oceania, Asia and Africa

b. Its linguistic qualities such as easy grammar and syntax

c. Its limited contact with other languages

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