ENGLISH PHONETICS III

WORKSHEET
TEXT 1

Today English is a world-wide language. About 300 million people speak it as

their mother-tongue, and there are as many - if not more - for whom it is an
additional language. The unparalleled status of English as an international
language reflects the economic and technological power of the English-speaking
countries, predominantly the United States. A radical shift in power would
undoubtedly result in the eventual displacement of English as the paramount
international language. Even so, it will remain the national language of many
countries where the majority of the population now speak it as their first or
second language.
TEXT 2

Of all the changes that swept over Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, the most widely influential was an epistemological transformation that
we call the scientific revolution. In the popular mind, this revolution is
associated with natural science and technological change, but the scientific
revolution was, in reality, a series of changes in the structure of European
thought
itself: systematic doubt, empirical and sensory verification, the abstraction of
human knowledge into separate sciences, and the view that the world functions
like a machine. These changes greatly altered the human experience of every
other aspect of life. This modification in world view can also be charted in
painting, sculpture and architecture, where it can be seen that people are
looking at the world very differently.
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