English speakers reading comprehension

Abdullah is talking to his friend, Mahmood.

Abdullah: Do you know how many people speak English in the world?

Mahmood: So many people speak English, but I don’t know how many.

• Mahmood knows how many people speak English.

• Mahmood doesn't know how many people speak English.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Abdullah: I checked online and it says 2 million people. That’s a lot of people.

Mahmood: Only 2 million? That’s not very many! Don’t forget there are 5 million people in Oman.

Abdullah: Oh sorry, not 2 million, I mean it’s 2 billion.

• 2 million people in the world speak English.

• 2 billion people in the world speak English.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Mahmood: Now that’s a lot of people. Do you know what that is? That’s the population of Oman 400 times!

Abdullah: أستغفر الله That’s too many people to imagine!

• Abdullah can imagine that number of people.

• Abdullah can't imagine that number of people.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Abdullah: It means I don’t have 6 brothers and sisters, I have 2,400. Our house will be too small for us!

• Abdullah's family will be too big for his house.

• Abdullah's family will not be too big for his house.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Mahmood: Yes but think of this, there will be 400 of your angry grandfather! You’ll have 400 angry grandfathers!

Abdullah: 400 of my grandfather! Oh my God, we will never do any bad things again! That will be so boring!

Mahmood: Yes, we will do many things, because there will be 800 of us!

• Abdullah likes the idea of having 400 grandfathers.

• Abdullah doesn't like the idea of having 400 grandfathers.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Mahmood: But how many people speak English as their second language?

Abdullah: It says online that 300 million people speak English as their first language. So 1.6 billion people speak English as their second language.

• 300 million people speak English as their second language.

• 1.6 billion people speak English as their second language.

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CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

Choose the correct sentence:

• So many people speak English.

• So much people speak English.

• Too many people speak English.

• Too much people speak English.

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Choose the correct question:

• Do you know how many people speak English?

• Do you know how much people speak English?

• Do you know too many people speak English?

• Do you know so much people speak English?

Do you know ____ many people speak English?

Which sentence is correct?

• I don't know how many people speak English.

• I don't know too many people speak English.

• I don't know so many people speak English.

• I don't know how much people speak English.

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A