Level 4: Upper Intermediate >> 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

Here are the answers, as far as I know!

French

de luxe
cuisine
boutique
ambulance 		German

vitamin
snorkel
waltz
hamburger
Spanish

mosquito
siesta
stampede
tornado
 Italian

pizza
soprano
pasta
nepotism
India/Pakistan

bungalow
shampoo
jungle 		Other

monkey (Arabic)
trek (Afrikaans)
caribou (Native American)
algebra (Arabic)
elephant (Hebrew)



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