CRAZY ENGLISH

GLOBAL ENGLISH
5000 languages are spoken in the world;
1 place – Chinese;
2 place – English;
English is spoken by 500 million people;
English is spoken in 60 countries;
Modern English consists of 600000 words;
80 % computer information is in English;
60 % telephone calls are made in English.

ENGLISH - SPEAKING WORLD
1.Great Britain
2.The USA
3.Canada
4.Australia
5.New Zealand
6.India
7.Pakistan
8.Bangladesh
9.Sri Lanka
10.Malasia
11.Brunei
12.Papua Neq Guinea
13.South Africa
14.Nigeria
15.Ghana.
16.Sierra Leone
17.Gambia
18.Tanzania
19.Guyana
20.Bahams
21Barbados
22.Trinidad and Tobago

ENGLISH – SPEAKING WORLD

GLOBAL ENGLISH
5000 languages are spoken in the world;
1 place – Chinese;
2 place – English;
English is spoken by 500 million people;
English is spoken in 60 countries;
Modern English consists of 600000 words;
80 % computer information is in English;
60 % telephone calls are made in English.

HOW IT ALL BEGAN

DOUBLE TROUBLE :
SOUNDS and LETTERS
When a poet writes a verse
” Why is horse not rhymed with worse?
Beard is not the same as heard, lord is different from word?
Cow is cow, but low is low, shoe is never rhymed with toe.
Think of nose and dose and lose,
Think of goose and then of choose.”
To sum it up, it seems to me,
that sounds and letters disagree
The English language has: 41 sounds but 26 letters
60 % silent letters

WHY IS IT SO?
1.If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
2. Why can “hot dogs” be cold?
3.There is neither “mush” nor “room” in mushrooms.
4.”Blackberries” are green.
5.When the moon is out, it is visible - but when the lights are out, they are invisible?
That is so because language
is created by people, not computers.

MYSTERY OF PUNCTUATION
Can you punctuate the sentence?
King Charles the First walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off
Punctuation can often say a lot.

GRAMMAR IN RHYMES
A noun is the name of anything
As School, Garden or King.
Adjectives tell the kind of Noun
As Great, Small, Pretty, White or Brown
Instead of Nouns the Pronoun is ,
As Mine, Yours, Our and His.
Verbs tell of something being done-
To Read, Count, Laugh, Carry or Run.
How things are done the adverbs tell
As Slowly, Quickly , Ill or Well.
Conjunctions join the words together ,
As Men and Women , Wind and weather.

The preposition stands before
A noun, as In or Through a door.
The interjection shows surprise,
As - Oh! How pretty! Ah! How wise!
Three little words you often see
Are articles – A, An, and The.
The whole are called Parts of Speech
Which reading, writing, speaking teach.

DO YOU KNOW?
30000 words from Old English;
“the, of, and, to, a, I, ”- the most frequently used;
“Ee”-the commonest letter;
“Ss”-starts the most words;
“Smith”- the commonest English name

PEOPLE WHO BECAME WORDS
The Earl of Sandwich, an 18-century English aristocrat.
Hooligan- the name of an Irish family famous for their quarrels and fights.
Jean Nicot, French ambassador , brought tobacco plant to France.
Etienne de Silhouette, French Minister of Finance, who amused himself by making shadow pictures.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: fruity language
1.to go crazy
2.a silly person
3.smth. very pleasant
4.very calm
5. to be one’s favourite
a)to be an apple of one’s eye
b)to go bananas
c)as cool as a cucumber
d)a lemon
e)a bowl of cherries

WAN 2 TLK? SO WOT R U W8TING 4?
Messaging is
a smart way to communicate
in the 21 century.
Text friends have created a whole new language of their own.

YOU CAN’T DO WITHOUT THEM
SMS - short message service
Pls - please
AND- any day now
B/C – because
NMP- not my problem
Ppl – people
THX – thanks
2moro - tommorow

E- motions
BK – Big Kiss
Grt – Great!
JK -Just Kidding!
“L” – Laughing
“O” – Shouting
“S” – Smiling

“It was decided almost two hundred years ago that English should be the language spoken in the United States.
It is not known, however, why this decision has not been carried out”.
George Mikes

AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH
“We are two countries
separated by a common language”
G. B. Show

FEEL THE DIFFERENCE
BRITISH
AMERICAN
1.to talk to friends
2.to look out of the window
3.to wear a jumper
4.Have you seen him?
5.He is mad.
6.Our hotel was not the Ritz.
7.Stay at home!
8.What did you say?
9.I don’t know.
1.to talk with friends
2.to look out the window
3.to wear a sweater
4.Did you see him?
5.He is crazy.
6.The hotel was awful.
7.Stay home!
8.Whaddya say?
9.I dunno.