Упражнение 8 Unit 2 Секция 1
ГДЗ English Михеева 8 класс - ответы

8 A Read the text and say what the figures 450,000; 35,000; 10,000— 12,000 mean in it.
Words... Words... Words...
We say them, we hear them, we read them and write them. And telephones, mobiles, radios, televisions, computers are all there to carry words to all parts of the world — and even to the moon and back. How many words must a language have? For example, there are more than 450,00Q words in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary. No person knows all of them, but most people are able to understand about 35,000 and use about 10,000—42,000. Usually you use only one-tenth (1/10) as many words as you understand.
If you hear or read a new word and want to know what it means, you look the word up in a dictionary. Modern dictionaries are very different. Most of them give words alphabetically. With the word they give information about how to pronounce it, what meaning or meanings it has, if there are any difficulties in its grammar and use. There are three big categories of dictionaries: monolingual, bilingual and multilingual. They give information about words in one (mono-), two (bi-) or more than two (multi-) languages.

B. Listen to the tape and read the text again after it.