Eighth Meeting - Report Text Exercise 2

Good Morning Everybody

How are you today

Hari ini kembali kita akan belajar Report Text Bahasa inggris sambil melatih listening skill (keterampilan mendengarkan) berbahasa Inggris kita dengan latihan di bawah ini. 

Latihannya adalah melengkapi paragraf rumpang Report Text, sambil kalian mendengarkan rekaman audio di bawah ini. 

    

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English in the Future

The many years now we've been referring to (1) ... as a global (2) ... as a language of communication and technology. Everybody seems to be learning English and it isn't uncommon to see English being used as a means of (3) ... between, let's see, a German scientist and an Italian politician. These days if you don't know English you are in danger of being excluded from what's going on, in (4) ... , at work, and especially in the world of technological advances. 

Very soon English will be the second language of all the people in the world, this is (5) ... while I'm speaking to you. we cannot be certain of how long the process will take but there is no doubt that it will happen and my bet is that it will happen sooner rather than later. 

First of all English will be an obligatory subject on every school curriculum throughout the world. By the year 2010 around two (6) ... people, that's about a third of the world's population, will speak English as their second language. This isn't my prediction, by the way, this is what the experts say. 

We can see (7) ... of these changes all the time let's take the Eurovision Song Contest as an example. Whatever we might think of the contest itself one thing that has changed recently is that now all countries can up to sing in English. In the last festival 14 of the 25 competing countries asked for the rules to be changed to allow them to sing in English. They argued that singing in their own language would put them at a (8) ... . I suspect that in a few years time all 25 countries will be singing in English. And what exactly does all of this mean for native speakers of English? Well, we are already in a minority, if the calculations are correct, then in 10 years time, majority speakers, that is non native English speakers, will outnumber (9) ... English speakers by 4 to one. 

The two most important Englishes, will be British English and American English, they'll be native English and majority English. So native English (10) ... will be handicapped. We will be the only people in the world who speak just one language because, let's face it, they went be much of a (11) ... for native English speakers to learn a second language. We and not the majority English speakers will be the disadvantaged. As normal people speak English, it makes sense that they will (12) ... more competent. They will start to control more of the English resources being produced and to have a say in what should or shouldn't be included in (13) ... and language books. This might seem far fetched but it is already starting to happen. 

Let's use Sweden as an (14) ... . Their music exports predominantly English account for more than 30 percent of its export income. This exported English is bound to have an effect on English in general, and this is just one small example. 

So, all of you native English speakers out there, get ready to throw away your phrase books. whether you're planning to visit Eastern Europe or the Himalayas, one thing you won't have to (15) ... about is the language.

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Salin semua teks rumpang di atas ke buku catatan Bahasa Inggris kalian, kemudian sempurnakan dengan mendengarkan audio rekamannya.

Tuliskan tanggal, judul pelajaran kita kali ini yaitu Report Text Exercise 2, dan Nama kalian di bagian atas halaman buku tulis kalian. Setelah itu kirimkan foto catatan tersebut ke akun Whatsapp guru Bahasa Inggris kalian.

Good Luck