I. Reading Exercise 1.

Read the text and the sentences after it. Decide in which of the sentences the information is true, false or not stated.Прочитайте текст и предложения после него. Решите, в каком из предложений информация является верной, ошибочной или не указанной. ( пишем тестом - True / False / Not stated )

People have always been interested in languages. During different times they tried to understand a lot of things about languages, to answer many questions about them. How did languages appear? How do they develop? Where do words come from? Why do they change their meanings? Why do some languages die? Why are some of them very popular and some of them are not?
History shows that some languages were very important at certain times. Latin was the language of religion and education in Europe in the Middle Ages. French was the language of diplomats from the 17th to the 20th century. But these days Latin and French are not so important. Today English is the language people use to speak to each other when they have different mother tongues. English has really become the language of our planet.

1) English is the language that many people understand and use these days.
2) In Europe aristocrats used French to speak to each other in the 18th century.
3) English helps people from different countries to understand each other these days.
4)The first languages appeared in Europe.
5) In the Middle Ages English was the language of religion.
6) People began to be interested in languages in the 21st century.