Sirtqi bo’lim 2 kurs barcha yo’nalishlar uchun ingliz tili fanidan O’quv-uslubiy qo’llanma farg‘ona – 2022 «improve your english»

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English today.
Millions of people are learning English. Why? Because it’s the most important international language in the world. But how did it become so important? This dossier (hujjat) tells the story of English, past and present. But let’s start from the present. Here are ten amazing facts about English today.
One billion people speak English. That’s 20 % of the world’s population.
400 million people speak English as their first language for the other 600 million people it’s either a second language or foreign language.
A number of Chinese people are learning English. Today is bigger than the population of the USA.

There are more than 500,000 words in the Oxford English Dictionary. Compare that with the vocabulary of German (about 200,000) and French (about 100,000).

80 % of all information in the world’s computers is in English.
Nearly 50 % of all the companies in Europe communicate with each other in English.
English is just one of over 2,700 languages in the world today.
75 % of all international letters and telexes are in English.
80 % of all English vocabulary comes from other languages.
When the American spaceship «Voyager» began its journey in 1977 it carried a gold disc. On the disc there were messages in 55 languages. Before all of them there was a message from the Secretary General of the United Nations in English. English is the first language in ten countries:
The United Kingdom
The United States
Canada
Ireland (Eire) (Irlandiya)
Australia
New Zealand
British Guiana (Gviana, Gayana). It is in the South America.
Such as Carabian Islands:
Bahama Islands in West India (near Cuba)
Barhados and Trinidad Islands (near Cuba) (Barbados va Trinidad)
Jamica (in West India, near Cuba) (Yamayka)
English as the second language in
Bangladesh - Bangladesh
Bhutan - Butan
Botswana - Botsvana
Branej - Bruney
Burundi -Burundi
Cameroon -Kamerun
Ethiopia - Efiopiya
Gambia - Gambiya
Ghana - Gana
Hong Kong - Gong Kong
India - Hindiston
Isreal - Isroil
Kenya - Keniya
Liberia - Liberiya
Malawi - Malavi
Nepal - Nepal
Malaysia - Malayziya
Nigeria - Nigeriya
Pakistan - Pokiston
The Philippines - Filippin
Rwanda - Ruanda
Sarawak - Saravak
Sierra Leona - S’erra Leona
South Africa - JAR
Shri Lanka - Shri lanka
Sudan - Sudan
Tanzania - Tanzaniya
Uganda - Uganda
Zambia - Zambiya
Zimbabwe - Zimbabve
The 10 most spoken languages in the world are:

Languages	Numbers of the language speakers
Chinese	800 million
English	400 million
Spanish	290 million
Russian	275 million
Hindustani	250 million
Arabic	160 million
Portuguese	160 million
Bengali	155 million
German	130 million
Japanese	120 million