Презентация "English in Life Nowadays"

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English in life nowadays In 1898, when Otto von Bismarck was an old man, a journalist asked him what he took to be the decisive factor in modern history. He answered, "The fact that the North Americans speak English."

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English-speaking countries USA CANADA australia New zealand India United Kingdom African countries Gulf of Mexico countries

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Worldwide, there are over 1400 million people living in countries where English has official status. English provides a vehicular language for international communication; it simultaneously finds itself acting as a language of identity for larger numbers of people around the world . The efl English Speakers will Increase from 100 million To 400 million By the year 2050. English community Fine, thanks =) How are you?

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English language – Historical background By the end of the 20th century, Britain had established the pre-conditions for English as a global language. Communities of English speakers were settled around the world. The position of English in the world today is thus the joint outcome of Britain’s colonial expansion and the more recent the rise of the superpower USA. According to the Crystal, 85% of international organizations now use English as one of their working language. English is used almost exclusively in publications, meeting, magazines, medium of conference, and journals. English is now the international currency of science and technology.

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Why is it so widely spread? United Kingdom had been a big colonial empire before. At that time, it had colonies inside on the places where are now United States, Canada, India, Pakistan, South Africa and some other countries. in all these countries English is widely spread. Later, most of these countries formed the organization : THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS Now queen Elisabeth ii is the head of commonwealth. Queen Elisabeth II, the Head of The Commonwealth.

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Commonwealth of Nations The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organization of fifty-four independent member states. Most of them are former colonies of the British empire. It has its head – The monarch of the united kingdom and its own flag (shown left). The Commonwealth website lists its areas of work as: Democracy , Economics , Education , Gender , Governance , Human Rights , Law , Small States , Sport , Sustainability , and Youth .

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English Today Today, English is widely used in many countries in different ways. It is one of the international languages and nowadays is used in daily life and in business by millions of people all over the world.

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English is a means of communication Internet reading and computers TV speaking

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Computers and software Computers were invented in English-speaking countries. That`s why the programming languages are based on English letters. Some words like “begin” and “end” are even taken from daily English vocabulary. Also, many famous software companies have english and american origins. Some of them are avaiLable in different languages but a lot come only in english .

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The Internet The Internet was basically an American development, and it naturally spread most rapidly among the other countries of the English-speaking world. It is not surprisingly that the Web is dominated by English. Nowadays, about 85 percent of the text on the web pages is in English. There's no question that the proportion of English will remain disproportionately high for some time to come.

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English TV England and America have famous TV channels. For example, Everyone knows bbc . The most watched channels in Britain are bbc one, itv1 and bbc two. these and some more American channels are shown in English all over the world.

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English writers English world has given to us many famous writers. You can take as an example Joan Rowling, the author of the famous Harry Potter book series.

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Expanding Circle China, Russia, Germany, Japan 1000 billion speakers EFL group Outer Circle India, Singapore, Gulf 1000 million speakers L2 group There are three types of English speaker in the world today. First language speakers (L1) are those whose first language is English. Second language (L2) speakers have English as a second or additional language. The third group of English speakers are the growing number of people learning English as a foreign language (EFL) . According to Braj B. Kachru , the spread of English may be viewed in terms of three circles representing the types of spread, the patterns of acquisition and the functional domains in which English is used across cultures and languages. Who speaks English? Inner Circle UK, USA 380 million speakers L1 group

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To summarize I think English is one of he most important languages in the world. So if you would like to go to such countries as USA and United Kingdom – it`s your choice !