Текст для подготовки домашнего задания по английскому (2 группа)

Unit 8. Lesson 5

Ex. 3b

There are more than 1.2 billion English speakers in the world today.

More than 350 million of them are native English speakers. For these people

English is their mother tongue. 850 million of them speak it as a second

language. Here are the most famous English speaking countries.

There are over 28 million people who speak English in Canada. English is

the first language learned at home and in school by most Canadians. Canada

is famous for ice-hockey.

The United Kingdom is the birthplace of the English language. It has over

59 million speakers of English. The UK is famous for the English language.

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In India there are over 128 million English speakers. India is famous for

music films.

In the USA over 298 million people speak English. Most of them use it as a

first language. People from all over the world come to live in America every

year, but most of them speak English.

And, of course, there are millions of native speakers of English in Australia,

New Zealand and the South-African Republic.