ELTWeekly Issue #22, Quiz of the week

By Tarun Patel

Hi all!

There are five questions in this week’s quiz. Answer them with the numbers 1-5. The answers will be displayed next week

Here are the questions:

1. How many words do you think there are in the English language?

a) 70,000 b) 170,000 c) 500,000 d) 2 million+

2. The following English words come from other languages. Can you guess which language they are borrowed from?

a) Tea b) Coffee c) Casserole d) Potato e) Shampoo

3. The American English word ‘zucchini’ means what in Standard English English?

a) leek b) courgette c) radish d) spring onion e) yam

4. Approximately how many languages are spoken in the world?

a) 1070 b) 1250 c) 2100 d) 2700 e) 3200

5. What percentage of the Internet is in English?

a) 55% b) 69% c) 86% d) 92% e) 95% .

NOTE: Please post your answers as comment.

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Tarun Patel (http://tarunpatel.net/blog/) is an ELT and Communication skills teacher, working with Charotar University of Science & Technology (CHARUSAT - http://charusat.ac.in/). He has been dealing with the Language learning processes for last seven years. 'Technology in Teaching English' is his favorite domain and he has presented several research papers in national and international conferences on the same theme. He is the founder editor of ELTWeekly (http://eltweekly.com/), India's first weekly ELT eNewsletter which reaches in more than forty countries and benefits more than 1600d teachers of English and Communication Skills. Have a look at his personal blog http://tarunpatel.net/blog/.