HOME WORK Установите соответствие между заголовками 1-8 и текстами A-G. Используйтекаждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.1. A second language2. The history of English 3/ Popular language4. Different English5. The future of English6/ Facts about English7. What languages do the British speak?8. Why learn EnglishA. English is spoken as a first language by several countries including Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, and the United States. While all of these countries share thesame mother tongue, there are some differences in the way they speak and write.The first difference is in the accent. Another difference is the spelling of some words. And athird difference is that some of the words are not the same at all. So which English is the bestEnglish to learn? Well, there is no best English. They are all equally good and correct.B. English is the official language of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irelandand it's a firstlanguage for the majority of its citizens. However, visitors to the UK are often surprised that theyhave difficulties in understanding the language. In Britain every part of the country has its ownway of speaking English. About 25% of people in Wales still speak their native Celtic languagecalled Welsh. In some regions of Scotland Gaelic is used as a first language. In Northern Irelandabout 7% of people are bilingual and speak English and Irish Gaelic.C. About one hundred years ago many educated people learned and spoke French when theymet people from other countries. Today most people speak English when they meet foreigners. Ithas become the new international language. There are more people who speak English as asecond language than people who speak English as a first language. No wonder it is representedin every continent and in the three main oceans - the Atlantic, the Indian and the Pacific.D. In 1887 a Polish linguist L.L. Zamanhof invented what he called a universal secondlanguage. This language took the best bits of many European languages to make a new one foreveryone to understand. He called it Esperanto. There are a reasonable number of fluent speakersof the language - though nobody issure how many. Some say 100, 000, others - 2, 5 million.E. People have long been interested in having one language that could be spoken throughout theworld. Such a language would help to increase cultural and economic ties and simplifycommunication between people. Through the years, at least 600 universal languages have beenproposed, including Esperanto, but English, according to specialists, has better chances tobecome a global language.F. One billion people speak English today. That's about 20% of the world's population. 400million people speak English as their first language. For the other 600 million people it's either asecond language or a foreign language. As a second language English is spoken in more than 60countries. Besides, 80% of all information in the world's computers is in English, 75% of theworld's letters and faxes are in English, 60% of all international telephone calls are made inEnglish and more than 60% of all scientific journals are written in English too.G. The modern world is becoming smaller all the time. Every day distances between differentcountries seem less. For this reason it's becoming more and more important to know differentlanguages, especially English. To know English today is absolutely necessary for every educatedperson, for every good specialist because it is the language of communication, business, scienceand culture.​