Global English
English is everywhere! How did this happen, what is the situation today, and how will English develop in the future?
To find out, read the text or shortcut in your textbook first, then work with the tasks given here and in the book.
Videos: English is Great
Two videos from the British Council about the English language. Tasks are included.
Links
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English is Great (parts 1 and 2)
(learnenglish.britishcouncil. org)
Textbook Tasks
- Shortcut Quiz: Global English
- Shortcut: Mentioned or not?
- Quiz: Global English
- Match up
- More matching
- Mentioned or not?
- True or false? (p. 19)
- Vocabulary: Memory game
- Jumbled sentences: Global English
- Paragraph order: Global English
- Gap texts: Global English
- 8 Research (p. 25)
- Hangman: What's the word?
Links
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Animation: Ages of English Timeline (BBC)
(bbc.co. uk) -
Global English - The History of English (The Open University)
(youtube.com) -
Renaming English: does the world language need a new name? (Brisbane Times)
(brisbanetimes.com. au) -
Debate: Should English be the world language?
(debate.org) -
A Sampling of Chinglish (The New York Times)
(nytimes.com)