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      Look at the graph. What does it tell you about which languages will be important in the future?    学び始める
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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?    学び始める
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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.    学び始める
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      Which languages does the writer think may become the dominant internet language of the future? Why?    学び始める
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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?    学び始める
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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?    学び始める
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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?    学び始める
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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.    学び始める
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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.    学び始める
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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.    学び始める
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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,    学び始める
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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.    学び始める
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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.    学び始める
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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.    学び始める
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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.    学び始める
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      Use the present perfect tense.   
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      explosion / demand for / mobile technology / language learning    学び始める
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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    学び始める
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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    学び始める
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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    学び始める
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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    学び始める
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      There has been a gradual decline in the appeal of traditional teaching methods.   
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