Kick off PTS, Schulbuch
120 Starting out Unit 11 A world language 1 2 3 Read these crazy facts about the English language. Think about the following questions, then talk about your answers in class. 1 How often do you speak English? 2 Where do you normally speak English? 3 How do you feel about speaking English in front of other people? Internet research. Find nine countries where English is the official language. Compare with your classmates. worksheet et6k6r Which countries have you found? I’ve / We have found the USA, … Search like this: English official language Ask like this: Answer like this: The most common letter in English is e . There are about 1 million words in English. In comparison, there are over 1.2 billion native speakers of Chinese. English is an official language in over 60 countries. Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions! The sentence The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. uses every letter in the alphabet. Almost is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. Rhythm is the longest English word without a vowel. About 350 million people speak English as a first language. Over 200 million of these live in the US, about 60 million in the UK, but only 15 million in Australia. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsili- covolcanoconiosis 1 . 1 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis: Quarzstaublunge (Krankheit) Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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