Question

С: fill in the gaps with the present perfect or past simple of the verbs in brackets. 1. the welsh language be spoken) for about twelve centuries already. 2. the manx be spoken) on the lsle of man up to the end of the 19th century. 3. a hundred and twenty- five native american languages ) up to now. 4. bruce (return) to cameroon, but bogon, the last speaker of kasabe, had died. 5. pre- columbian return) 300 languages at the time columbus landed in america. 6. of the 175 or so languages recorded across the rossian federation, about half a now/ come) to the edge of extinction. 7. the tribe (decide) that it would not develop a written form of the language? 8. linguists found that only 500 kets, north- west siberian (speak) their own language competently in 1993.

Answer 1

1)has been spoken
2)had been spoken
3) have disappeared
4) returned
5) had returned
6) has come
7) did...decide
8) spoke