Prime Time 5, Transition, Coursebook mit Audio-CD

1 English today What do you think is the role of English today? Do the quiz and find out. 1. How many people in the world speak English? a fifth ( 1 ⁄ 5 ) of the world population a third ( 1 ⁄ 3 ) of the world population three quarters ( 3 ⁄ 4 ) of the world population 2. Which language has the highest number of native speakers? Mandarin (a form of Chinese) Hindi (a language from India) Spanish 1 1 Speaking English Unit Fact file • English has about 360 million native speakers, but about 1.5 billion people speak English. • English is the most widely used language on the internet, closely followed by Chinese. • The English language (ca. 700,000 words) has more words than German (ca. 175,000 words) or French (ca. 100,000). • The English language grows by about 25,000 new words a year – a world record. F 6 Internet resources 7xu394 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv