Upper Intermediate Level >> Vocabulary Worksheets >> There are thousands of foreign words in the English language - but where did they all come from? Students do a worksheet consisting of some of the most common foreign words in use today and classify them according to where they originated from. A good dictionary-use activity.
Foreign Words in English
Upper Intermediate
Here are the answers, as far as I know!
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French de luxe cuisine boutique ambulance |
German vitamin snorkel waltz hamburger |
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Spanish mosquito siesta stampede tornado |
Italian pizza soprano pasta nepotism |
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India/Pakistan bungalow shampoo jungle |
Other monkey (Arabic) trek (Afrikaans) caribou (Native American) algebra (Arabic) elephant (Hebrew) |
