WHY IS ENGLISH SO POPULAR? LINGUISTIC RESEARCH Приложение 1 Приложение 2 Приложение 3 Приложение 4
“English is the Latin of the 21st century” As easy as Latin As popular as Latin The language of the most powerful country
(Byron, George Gordon) (1788–1824)
Why do you learn English? the best to understand Friends to study to travel intelligent
1. ENGLISH IS THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA.
One of the biggest and strongest country in the world To do business with America
American restaurants Hollywood 6 out of 10 richest people American jeans Science and technology Dollar
2. English is easy. Столы Tables Книги Books Деревья Trees Plurals are easier. -(e)s Столы Книги Деревья Tables Books Trees
English is easy. Genders are simpler. Tree (it) She Table (he) He Book (she) Room (she) She He It
English is easy. English words don’t change so much. I read this book. – Я читаю эту книгу. We read this book. –Мы читаем эту книгу. You read this book. – Ты читаешь эту книгу. They read this book. –Они читают эту книгу. He read this book. – Он читает эту книгу. She read this book. –Она читает эту книгу.
3. English has words from other languages. Several European languages contributed to the formation of English
Scandinavian words: Anger, cake, call, give, kill, skirt, they, them, want, window, husband Wir gehen in die Schule. –We go to school. Sie ist interessant.- She is interesting. Latin words: Street, kitchen, cup, chees, wall, paper French words: Country, crime, prison, prince, letter, question, royal …
Celtic words: Kent Avon Thames
4. The United Kingdom used to have a big empire.
1583
“British Empire” Doctor Dee, the Queen’s magician and astrologer
“The sun never sets on the British Empire” 400-500 million people about 30 million square kilometres Colonies and territories are: The USA Canada Australia New Zealand India Large parts of Africa The Caribbean
WHY IS ENGLISH SO POPULAR? English is the language of America. English is easy. It has words from other languages. The United Kingdom used to have a big empire. English is a crazy language.
3 main aims: To understand native speakers To read English newspapers and books To talk to native speakers
LEARNING ENGLISH Work on your English as often as you can. ENGLISH
LEARNING ENGLISH Buy a good dictionary
LEARNING ENGLISH You shouldn’t start with English newspapers or books
LEARNING ENGLISH Start a vocabulary notebook
LEARNING ENGLISH Watch films in English
LEARNING ENGLISH Listen to English cassettes
LEARNING ENGLISH Learn a lot of grammar rules by heart
LEARNING ENGLISH Learn texts and songs
Listen to the stories and fill in the file: Why does he/she learn English? What does he/she do to learn it better? Sveta Alex Mary