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  • 1: Starting out
    • Where Do I Come From?
    • Long Walk to Forever
    • Greensleeves
    • I Am the Secret Footballer
    • An Introduction to Poetry
    • Writing a Persuasive Essay
    • The Palmist
    • From Film to Literature - Billy Elliot
  • 2: Globally Speaking
    • A Global Language
    • Everyone Talked Loudly in Chinatown
    • Divided by a Common Language
    • Running with the Ball / The All Blacks
    • Life of Pi
    • The Popular Press / Matty Groves
  • 3: Thorns and Roses
    • A Red, Red Rose
    • True Love
    • Seal-hunting Becomes Tourist Sport in Norway
    • The Luncheon
    • Powder
    • Fairytale of New York
    • Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
    • Lord Randal
    • Blackout
  • 4: Roads Taken
    • Values
    • Masters of War
    • The Hunger Games
    • The Road Not Taken
    • It's Only Rock 'n' Roll... But I Like It
    • The Sniper
    • The Road to Freedom
    • A Dream Deferred / A Raisin in the Sun
  • 5: Somewhere I Belong
    • Mankind on the Move
    • Sonny's Lettah
    • Native Americans / The Pechanga Teach ...
    • The Man to Send Rain Clouds
    • The Homecoming
    • Aboriginal Australians
    • Stolen Children / Took the Children Away
    • Whale Rider / Ta Moko
  • Audio
  • Toolbox
  • Grammar
    • Adjectives and adverbs
    • Prepositions
    • Captal letters and punctuation
    • Contracted forms
    • It/There
    • Articles and nouns
    • Pronouns
    • Verbs: Concord
    • Verbs: Past and perfect tense
    • Verbs: Present progressive
    • Verbs: Revision
    • Do-support / Did-support
    • Tag questions
    • Wh-questions
    • Modal verbs
    • Word order
    • Joining sentences
  • Map quizzes

A Global Language


Global Language

Video: The world's English mania

video Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English.

Links

  • TED video

    http://www.ted.com/talks/jay_walker_on_the_world_s_english_mania.html
    (ted.com)

Textbook Tasks

  • Understanding the text
  • Test yourself - English language history
  • Jumbled sentences

Extra Tasks

  • Drag-and-drop: English variants
  • Test your knowledge of history
  • Types of World English

Listening

  • Listen to the text: A Global Language

Going Further

  • The History of English (slides)
  • English: The Story of the Ugly Duckling
  • Extra text: English in Jamaica
  • The British Empire: The Last of the Pink Bits
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Links

  • Brisbane Times: Renaming English?

    http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/comment/renaming-english-does-the-world-language-need-a-new-name-20130612-2o2v5.html
    (brisbanetimes.com.au)
  • Debate: Should English be the world language?

    http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-english-be-the-world-language
    (debate.org)
  • English around the world

    http://eleaston.com/world-eng.html
    (eleaston.com)
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