O’zbekiston respublikasi oliy va o’rta maxsus ta’lim vazirligi guliston davlat universiteti hamdamov U. E ingliz tili fanidan o’quv-uslubiy majmua Guliston -2017 Annotation

The 6^th practical activity
The theme: Amazing and Useful


Objectives:
To develop reading skills;
To practice correct spelling;
To explain the use of the verb To have.
Vocabulary: compile, expand, competitive exams, frequently, arguably, rhythm, uncatalogued, horrendous, stupendous, amend, gain, arrange, protest


Visuals:: handouts, cards, projector, mini tests.
Summary of the lesson.


Amazing and Useful
There are many languages in the world. But only English gets more and more popular in every part of the world. Started in England, now it expanded to many parts of the world. There are many interesting facts about the English language. We compiled a list by studying the history of the English language and found out that these facts are not only interesting but quite useful for the general studies. At competitive exams, questions about the English language are often asked. One may master the language but not even knowing some interesting facts about it.

• The most commonly used word in English conversation is ‘I’. In Uzbek its equivalent ’men’ is used quite less frequently as it is used with case suffixes.

• A preposition is always followed by a noun (i.e. noun, proper noun, pronoun, noun group, gerund).
Prepositions are extraneous in Uzbek, which causes some difficulties in using them. This fact can be usful for learners.
• “Rhythm” is the longest English word only one a vowel.
• There are only four English words in common use ending in «-dous»: hazardous, horrendous, stupendous, and tremendous.
• O f all the words in the English language, the word “set” has more definitions. It has 464 definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary. “Run” runs a distant second, with 396. Rounding out the top ten are “go” with 368, “take” with 343, “stand” with 334, “get” with 289, “turn” with 288, “put” with 268, “fall” with 264, and “strike” with 250. (Source: Dictionary.com)
Did you know that of all the world’s languages (over 2,700) English is arguably the richest in vocabulary; and that the Oxford English Dictionary lists about 500,000 words, and there are a half-million technical and scientific terms still uncatalogued? The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
According to Illinois state law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially recognized language is “American.” In 1923 the state of Illinois made American, not English, its official language. The move was a protest against the British. In 1969, the law was quietly amended to make English the official language. English is the medium for 80% of the information stored in the world’s computers. The «QWERTY keyboard» gains its name from the fact that its first 6 letter keys are Q, W, E, R, T and Y. On early typewriters, the keys were arranged in such a way to minimize the clashing of the mechanical rods that carried the letters.