1. WHY IS ENGLISH SO POPULAR?
LINGUISTIC RESEARCH
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2. “English is the Latin of the 21st century”
As easy as Latin
As popular as Latin
The language of the most powerful country

3. (Byron, George Gordon) (1788–1824)

4. Why do you learn English?
the best
to understand
Friends
to study
to travel
intelligent

5. 1.
ENGLISH IS THE
LANGUAGE OF
AMERICA.

6. One of the biggest and strongest country in the world
To do business with America

7. American restaurants
Hollywood
6 out of 10 richest people
American jeans
Science and technology
Dollar

8. 2. English is easy. Столы Tables Книги Books Деревья Trees
Plurals are easier.
-(e)s
Столы
Книги
Деревья
Tables
Books
Trees

9. English is easy. Genders are simpler. Tree (it) She Table (he) He
Book (she)
Room (she)
She He It

10. 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.

11. 3. English has words from other languages.
Several European languages contributed to the formation of English

12. 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 …

13. Celtic words:
Kent
Avon
Thames

14. 4. The United Kingdom used to have a big empire.

15. 1583

16. “British Empire”
Doctor Dee,
the Queen’s magician and astrologer

17. “The sun never sets on the British Empire”
million people
about 30 million square kilometres
Colonies and territories are:
The USA
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
India
Large parts of Africa
The Caribbean

18. 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.

19. 3 main aims: To understand native speakers To read English newspapers
and books
To talk to
native speakers

20. LEARNING ENGLISH
Work on your English
as often as you can.
ENGLISH

21. LEARNING ENGLISH
Buy a good dictionary

22. LEARNING ENGLISH
You shouldn’t start with English newspapers or books

23. LEARNING ENGLISH
Start a vocabulary notebook

24. LEARNING ENGLISH
Watch films in English

25. LEARNING ENGLISH
Listen to English cassettes

26. LEARNING ENGLISH
Learn a lot of grammar rules by heart

27. LEARNING ENGLISH
Learn texts and songs

28. 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