Vocabulary - gap-fill activities 4 (Upper Intermediate)

 

English has without a 1) become the second language of Europe and the world. European countries which have most 2) assimilated English into daily life are England's neighbours in Northern Europe: Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and the 3) of Scandanavia. 

 

The situation is so 4) that any visitor to the Netherlands will soon be 5) of the pressure of English on daily life: television, radio and print 6) it into every home and the schoolyard 7) of children; advertisers use it to 8) up their message, journalists take refuge in it when their home-bred skills 9) them. Increasingly one hears the 10) that Dutch will give way to English as the national tongue within two or three generations ...