Comprehension and Conversation
Count by ordinal numbers from one to ten.
Do most streets in the United States have names or numbers?
Which do you prefer, streets with names or streets with numbers?
It is easy to locate streets with a number. Why ?
How do you name streets in your country?
Are the ordinal numbers in English easy or difficult?
Do you live on a street with a name or a number?
Do we use the before names of streets?.
SUPPLEMENTARY TEXT
The English Language
English is one of the most popular languages in the world today. About 75% of all scientific papers are published in English and approximately 70% of the world’s mail is written in English. It is also the language of shipping and air travel.
English is the first or joint first language in 70 countries, while French is spoken in 34 countries and Arabic is spoken in 22 countries. About 330 million people speak English as a first or joint-first language. This is 6.2 % of the world’s population. Another 300 million people also speak English as a second language.
There are millions of people, who learn a foreign language in schools or at universities. It is estimated, that 25% of China’s one billion populations are studying English now. The nearest estimate of the number of people in the world today who can speak English is one billion out of a total population of five billion.
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