1. About 170 million people speak English. F

2. English was first spoken in the fifth century BC also known as the Old English period.F

3. We are now in the Modern English period which started in the 16th century, when George Martin lived.F

4. Today every one out of five people on the planet can speak English.T

5. More than 80 % of home pages on the Internet are in Mandarin Chinese.F

6. The number of words in English has grown from 50,000 or 60,000 words in Old English to about a billion today.F

7. In everyday speech, a native speaker uses around a tenth of his vocabulary – 1200 to 2000 words. T

8. Only between 1500 and 2000 words should be enough in most situations.T