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