IELTS Listening Sample Question # Disappearing Words
Disappearing Words
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Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS
- Some of the oldest sounding English words date back to how many years?
- What is the gradual process of change and development over a long period of time called?
- Which numerical words are told by the scientist as being very old?
- Which is the oldest pronoun in English?
- When a person tells what might happen in future as per the knowledge he/she has, what is he/she doing?
- Which phrasal verb has the same meaning as to die out?
- Which word does the scientist predicts to get lost in the near future?
- The word that describes how often something happens is ______________.
- Which phrase best explains the language that we use most frequently?
- Which word means that you will continue to use it or keep it?
- Towards the end, which two words are predicted to get extinct?
ANSWER
- 20000
- Evolution
- two, three, five
- I
- predicting
- to become extinct
- dirty
- frequency
- common everyday speech
- retain
- squeeze and guts