The European Day of Languages
A Multiple Choice Test
(9 -- 11th forms)
Worked out by L. V. Katsura
The teacher-methodologist
Gymnasium 9
Simferopol
2010
The European day of Languages Quiz (50 points)
1. The European Day of languages is observed since
a) 2005;
b) 2001;
c) 2000.
2. The main aims of the European Day of Languages are
a) to encourage people to learn more languages;
b) to strengthen friendship;
c) to encourage lifelong language learning and to alert the public to the importance of language learning.
3. There are between ______languages in the world.
a) 6000 and 7000;
b) 5000 and 6000;
c) 6500 and 7000
4. There are about ______indigenous languages in Europe.
a) 300;
b)230;
c) 225
5. Many languages have
a) 30, 000 words or more;
b) 50,000 words or more;
c) 60,000 words or more.
6. In everyday conversation people use ______hundred words.
a) ten;
b) the same few;
c) six
7. English has borrowed words from over ______languages.
a) 400;
b) 320;
c) 350
8. European languages are now borrowing many words from
a) French;
b) German;
c) English.
9. Bilinguism brings many benefits:
a) it makes a learning of additional language easier;
b) promotes peace and friendship;
c) entails scientific advantages.
10. Most European languages belong to ______language groups.
a) the four;
b) the three;
c) the five
11. The Germanic family of languages includes:
a) Danish, Swedish, German and French;
b) Danish, Swedish, German and Yiddish;
c) Danish, Dutch, English and Portuguese.
12. The Romans language include
a) Italian, French, Spanish and Romanian ;
b) Italian, French, Portuguese and English;
c) Italian, French, Spanish and Serbian.
13. The Slavic languages include
a) Russian, Ukrainian, Czech and Romanian;
b) Belorussian, Polish, Serbian and Macedonian;
c) Groatin, Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Icelandic.
14. Most European languages use
a) the Cyrillic alphabet;
b) the Latin alphabet;
c) have their own alphabet.
15. The mother tongues spoken by most people in Europe are ______in that order.
a) German, English, French, Italian, Russian;
b) Italian, French, German, English, Russian;
c) Russian, English, German, French, Italian
16. The non-European languages most widely used on European territory are
a) Japanese, Arabic and Farsi;
b) Arabic, Chinese and Hindi;
c) Arabic, Maori and Pushtu.
17. Russia has by far the highest number of languages spoken on its territory: from
a) 140 to200;
b) 130 to 200;
c) 160 to 200
18. Within the Celtic family there are
a) Irish, Scots, Gaelic;
b) Welsh, English, Irish;
c) Irish, Scots, Gaelic, Welsh and Breton.
19. The five languages spoken by most people in Europe are
a) Russian, German, English, French and Italian;
b) Russian, Ukrainian, English, French, Italian;
c) Russian, Frisian, Spanish, French, Italian.
20. Separate families with only one member are
a) Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian;
b) Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian;
c) Greek, Albanian and Armenian.
21. The 49 states parties to the European Cultural Convention have ______official or national languages.
a) 41;
b) 42;
c) 43
22) Some regional and minority languages have obtained official status
a) Welsh, Cornish and many in France;
b) Basque, Catalan and Galician in Spain;
c) Frisian, Sami in Netherlands.
23. Language is
a) a system of sounds and words;
b) an arbitrary system of sounds and symbols;
c) a system of words.
24. Europe has become largely multilingual: in London ______languages are spoken.
a) some 300;
b) some 400;
c) some 50
25. The European Year of Languages was organized by
a) the Council of Europe;
b) the European Center for modern languages;
c) the Council of Europe and the European Union.