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Look at the graph. What does it tell you about which languages will be important in the future? empezar lección
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The graph shows that Chinese, Arabic and Russian in particular, are likely to be more important in the future as their rate as growth is very high.
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Can you make any predictions based on the evidence provided? empezar lección
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Possible predictions are: in the future, perhaps English will not be the most dominant language. Chinese, Arabic, Russian and Spanish may become more important than English.
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Read the first part of a report about languages on the internet. empezar lección
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Which languages does the writer think may become the dominant internet language of the future? Why? empezar lección
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Chinese, because there is a huge increase in demand as the number of Chinese internet users increase.
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Which other languages do you think are important to mention in the report? Why? empezar lección
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Arabic, Russian and perhaps Portuguese are also important to mention because of their huge growth rates.
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Read the guidelines for writing a formal report. Which guidelines 1-6 are followed in the report in Exercises 9 B? empezar lección
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Points 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 are all exemplified.
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What would you expect to find in the remaining part of the report? empezar lección
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You would expect to find point 4 in the remaining part.
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Which alternatives is not possible according to the graph in Exercise 9 A? Cross out the incorrect alternative.
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The importance of Chinese as a global language has increased dramatically/risen sharply/dropped alarmingly. empezar lección
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The importance of Chinese as a global language has increased dramatically/risen sharply.
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There has been a surge/a drop/an increase in the use of Chinese on the internet. empezar lección
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There has been a surge/an increase in the use of Chinese on the internet.
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Numbers of people using Arabic on the internet have plummeted/soared/grown in recent years. empezar lección
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Numbers of people using Arabic on the internet have soared/grown in recent years.
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There has been a relative surge/decline/drop in the percentage of people using English online, empezar lección
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There has been a relative decline/drop in the percentage of people using English online,
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as numbers of people using languages such as Chinese, Russian and Arabic have declined/increased/grown. empezar lección
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as numbers of people using languages such as Chinese, Russian and Arabic have increased/grown.
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Numbers of Chinese speakers with access to the internet have rocketed/exploded/collapsed. empezar lección
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Numbers of Chinese speakers with access to the internet have rocketed/exploded.
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There has been a steady/sharp/gradual increase in the use of Spanish online. empezar lección
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There has been a steady/gradual increase in the use of Spanish online.
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Use the prompts to write sentences describing trends in education. empezar lección
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Use the present perfect tense.
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explosion / demand for / mobile technology / language learning empezar lección
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There has been an explosion in (the) demand for mobile technology in language learning.
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number / people / communicating regularly / social networks / increase / dramatically empezar lección
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The number of people communicating regularly using social networks has increased dramatically.
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number / students / attend / private language schools / study English /plummet empezar lección
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The number of students attending private language schools to study English has plummeted.
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sharp increase / ability / learners /access / learning materials / internet empezar lección
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There has been a sharp increase in the ability of learners to access learning materials on the internet.
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gradual decline / appeal / traditional teaching methods empezar lección
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There has been a gradual decline in the appeal of traditional teaching methods.
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