You'll always have your accent – or will you? - Unit 2

C1 Advanced · Word Formation · Complete Advanced, Cambridge University Press

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning.

ACT

HISTORY

DIFFERENT

MEASURE

ASSUME

ETHNIC

INFLUENCE

NUMBER

For centuries, people existed in isolated ___ far from one another. Rarely was there any spoken ___ between groups, so regional accents became established because they were only used by a finite number of people. ___ , there have been long periods when one might barely detect a single change in pronunciation. Through time, however, an accent would develop as a result of migrants arriving from other regions, bringing with them some distinct ___ in the way they spoke the language. How long it takes for an accent to change is difficult to assess and largely ___ , although we can certainly work from the general ___ that it happens more quickly than it used to. In today's world, there are many factors that determine a person's accent, such as class, education and ___ . The latter has certainly had a hugely ___ effect on the way in which modern languages are spoken, particularly in cities and larger towns, where multicultural populations are more ___ than elsewhere.

You'll always have your accent – or will you?

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