All about English
There
are 400,000,000 people who speak Spanish in the world today but
at this very moment, approximately 750,000,000 people are speaking
English all over the globe. This is almost a quarter of the population
of the entire world. English is a very popular and important language
with its own history. People
in Great Britain, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and
parts of Canada and South Africa speak English as their first language
though they all have different accents, spelling and even words.
In many countries where there are different first languages, such
as India, people speak English as a second language to communicate
with each other. People in other places in the world learn English
as a foreign language, for example Japan or Spain. |
This
means that there are more non-native speakers of English in the
world than native speakers! And the number is growing. Most
of the world’s faxes and e-mail messages are in English. English
is the language of computers, of science and of technology. It is
the language for business, it is the language of travel, of pop
music and of the Internet that is why many teenagers all over the
world are learning how to communicate in English, just like you! English
is the language of our planet, the first truly global language of
all times! So you see, it doesn’t matter where you are born or what
your accent is. English is your language, too!
Activity
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Field, P., Last, J., Muñoz, P. and Páramo, J. (1998) Top Class 3. England: Burlington Books. |