Oral check

All languages change when cultures communicate with one another. The English spoken between AD 450 and 1150 was quite 1)_________ from that spoken today. 2) ______, it was based more on German than the English we speak at present. Later, it became more like French. One big change in English 3)_______ happened when the American Dictionary of the English Language, which gave American English its own 4)________, came 5)__________. Now India has a very large number of English speakers. This is because English became the language for 6)________ and education during 1765 to 1947, when Britain ruled India. English is also spoken in many other countries in Africa and Asia, such 7)_______ South Africa, Singapore and Malaysia. The number of people learning English in China is also 8)_______ rapidly.