3. Language
Number of Speakers
(In Millions)
Arabic 246
Cantonese (China) 71
English 508
Ho (Bihar and Orissa States, India) 1
Japanese 126
Spanish 417
Swahili (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo) 49
Tagalog (Philippines) 57
Look at the chart. Then complete the sentences. Use the verb speak in the active or the passive form.
4. A. Japanese ..........................................
A. One million people ..........................
B. …………………… by 57 million people
C. …………………………… Cantonese.
D. ……………………………… 246 million people.
E. More than 500 million peoples ……………………… .
F. ……………………………………….. in Uganda.
5. Read an editor’s notes for a story for Modern Reader. Find and correct eight mistakes in the use of the passive. The
first mistake is already corrected.
Two-third of Bolivia’s five million people locate (are located) in the cool western highlands known as the
Altiplano. For centuries, the grain quinoa has been grew in the mountains. Llamas raised for fur, meat, and
transportation. And tin, Bolivia’s richest natural resource, is mining by miners in the high Andes.
The Oriente, another name for the eastern lowlands, is mostly tropical. Rice is the major food crop, and
cows are raised for milk. Oil is also find there.
Although Spanish is the official language, Native American languages are still spoken by people.
Traditional textiles are woven by hand, and music played on reed pipes whose tone resembles the sound of
the wind blowing over high plains in the Andes.