Unit 5 Languages Around The World
Section A Listening and Speaking
There are now about 376 million people who speak English as their first language,and about the same number who have learnt it in addition to their mother tongue.It is said that there are one billion people learning English now and about 80% of the information on the Internet is in English.
Is this a good thing,or a bad thing?Should we celebrate① the fact that more and more of us can communicate②,using a common language,across cou ...