English as a Lingua Franca

25. Perhaps one of the things that has made the English language today the closest the world has to a lingua franca is its __________ (FLEXIBLE).

26. The history of Britain is a tale of many _________ (INVADE), from Anglo Saxons to Vikings and Normans, …

27. … and they all left a ________ (LAST) mark on the development of English as it is spoken today.

28. One of the results of this is that English has always _______ (READY) absorbed words from other languages and this is a process that continues to this day.

29. English has borrowed a very wide _________ (VARY) of foreign words and made them its own.

Грамматика и Лексика

English as a Lingua Franca (25-29)