WHY IS ENGLISH SO POPULAR?

WHY IS ENGLISHSO POPULAR?

LOOK AT THESE EVENTS. MATCH THE PICTURES AND THE

PHRASES.a) to find a job abroadb) to go on holiday abroadc) to earn a lot of moneyd) to become a politiciane) to travel everywhere in the worldf) to watch films in the original languageg) to go abroad on an exchange programmeh) to read books in the original languagei)to get access to the Internetj)to make friends with people from

other countriesk) to communicate with people from

other countriesl) to work as a secretarym) to make presentations at

international conferences

DON’T LEARN

ENGLISH!

I

t may

ruin

your

life!

ВЫ СМОЖЕТЕ ПУТЕШЕСТВОВАТЬ ПО ВСЕМУ МИРУ И

ВЕЗДЕ ОБЩАТЬСЯ С ЛЮДЬМИ

ВЫ ВСЕГДА БУДЕТЕ УЗНАВАТЬ НОВОСТИ

ПЕРВЫМИ

ВЫ ПОЛУЧИТЕ ДОСТУП К

ИНФОРМАЦИИ ПО ЛЮБОМУ ПРЕДМЕТУ

ВЫ УЗНАЕТЕ ВСЕ О СВОЕЙ ЛЮБИМОЙ МУЗЫКАЛЬНОЙ

ГРУППЕ

И ХУЖЕ ВСЕГО: ВЫ НАЙДЕТЕ

ФАНТАСТИЧЕСКУЮ РАБОТУ И

ЗАРАБОТАЕТЕ МНОГО ДЕНЕГ

READ THE STATISTICS. MATCH IT WITH THE FACTS FROM THE TEXT.

1. CNN broadcasts to more than 210 countries.

2. In 2000, nineteen out of twenty of the most popular movies in the world were American.

3. A billion (1,000,000,000) websites in the Internet are in English.

4. English is the language most spoken around the world.

WHY IS ENGLISH

SO POPULAR?

PLURALS ARE EASIER

Tables – столы Cats – кошки Eyes - глаза Trees - деревья

GENDERS ARE SIMPLERSHE – WOMENHE – MENIT – ALL THE OTHER WORDSENGLISH WORDS DON’T CHANGE SO MUCH I READ THIS BOOK. WE READ THIS BOOK.YOU READ THIS BOOK. HE (SHE, IT) READS THIS BOOK. THEY READ THIS BOOK.

A LOT OF ENGLISH WORDS ARE LIKE GERMAN

German Meine Freundin

ist neun Jahre alt.

Wir gehen in die Schule.

Sie ist interessant.

English My friend is nine

years old. We go to school.

She is interesting.

THE ROOTS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

THE BRITISH EMPIRE AT ITS ZENITH IN 1919

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