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Jay Walker, an entrepreneur fascinated by intellectual property, explains why two billion people
around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese
students rehearsing English the worlds second language by the thousands.
(Recorded at TED2009, February 2009, in Long Beach, California. Duration: 4:35.)
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4/ Complete the sentences based on what you can remember from the video. Check your answers with your partner.
The world has a new ___________ for learning English. Listen as Chinese students practice their English by screaming it.
How many people are trying to learn English ______________? Two billion of them.
Why do Chinese students learn English? In a single word: _______________. For a better life, a job, to be able to pay for
school, or put better food on the table.
Imagine a student taking a giant test for days. Her score on this one test literally _____________her future.
The test is called Gaokao, and 80 million high school Chinese students have already taken this _____________ test.
The intensity to learn English in China is almost unimaginable, unless you ___________ it.
With English you can become part of a wider conversation: a global conversation about global problems, like __________
__________ or ____________, or hunger or __________.
English represents hope for a better future -- a future where the world has a common language to ___________ its
common problems.
People's mania for English threatens the study of mother tongues worldwide.
It is inevitable to speak English if you want to find a good job in Slovakia.
Diversity is important and that's why English should not be the the world language.
6/ Complete the following sentence. Use the words in the box if you like.
For me, learning English is ..
a pleasure
a hobby
an opportunity
an investment
a necessity
an effort a problem
a pain
a nightmare