Linguists believe that early men used many gestures to communicate …WITH……….(1) one another. This, it is thought, was man’s first form of ………COMMUNICATION…….…(2) and the only one he had ………FOR………(3) a long period of time. Even today we use some sign language: for example, we shake our ……HEADS…………..(4) to indicate yes or no, we point and we wave…
The first spoken words may have been early man’s attempt to ……IMITATE………..(5) the sounds made by animals. Then he may have developed sounds of his ……OWN………….(6). Gradually, man may have repeated certain sounds so ……OFTEN………..(7) that they became familiar and understandable to others. Once spoken language had begun, perhaps man invented new ……WORDS………(8) as he needed them to express himself ve
ally ……OR…………(9) to name new objects. In this way we can imagine language growing.
………BY………(10) using words, parents were able to teach them to their children. The children in turn probably made up new ………WORDS………..(11). Each generation, therefore, in the development of language, knew more words than the generation……BEFORE…….(12) it. Language is still growing and changing. Can you think ………OF……(13) some words that you use today ………WHICH……..(14) were not used by your parents or grandparents …………WHEN………..(15) they were children?

(1) language
(2) head
(3) copy
(4) oftem
(5) or
(6) words
(7) before
(8) of
(9) that
(10) when