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LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGESENGLISH AS A WORLD LANGUAGE
Hučíková, V8A22. 11. 2014
Gymnázium Jiřího Ortena
CONTENT
WHY TO LEARN FOREIGN LANGUAGES?
TYPICAL FEATURES OF ENGLISH
HISTORY OF ENGLISHVARIETIES OF ENGLISH
• business• education• travel(l)ing• self-development
REASONS TO LEARN ENGLISH
FEATURES
• Indo-European language family• 3 groups of speakers• easy grammar• spoken x written
The Romans – Old Latin
The Anglo-Saxons – Old English
The 6th century – +Greek
The Vikings – Danish and Norwegian
The Normans – French
14th century – Ancient Greek
The Elizabethan era – Arabic,…
17th century – → varieties of
English
VARIETIES OF ENGLISH
BRITISH AMERICAN CANADIAN AUSTRALIAN
Indian English, African English, … + Cockney
colour
dialogue
programme
color
dialog
program
Have you got?At the weekend
Do you have?On the weekend
bathroom, public school..
biscuit cookiesweets candy
flat apartmentholiday vacation
university collegetrousers pants
tube subway
sources23. 11. 2014
• http://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/issues_global.html
• http://www.e-junkie.info/2011/07/history-of-english-in-10-minutes-these.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language