Coversation clubs

Thursdays 7- 8:30 pmFridays 7- 8:30 pm

Saturdays 10-11:30 am 4-5:30 pm

What benefits do people bilingual have?

Advantages of learning a language

• Satisfaction• Advancing Your Career• Travel• Entertainment• Music• Movies• Magazines• Future Jobs• Books (medicine, technology etc)• Science• Internet(meeting people online)

ENGLISH AS AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGEAbout a hundred years ago many people learned and spoke French when they met people from other countries. Today most people speak English when they meet foreigners. It has become the new international language. There are more people who speak English as a second language than people who speak it as a first language, why is this?There are many reasons why English has become so popular. One of them is that English has become the language of business. Another important reason is that popular American culture (like movies, music and McDonalds) has quickly spread throughout the world. It has brought its language with it. Is it good that English has spread to all parts of the world so quickly? I don’t know. It’s important to have a language that people of the earth have in common. Our world has become very global and we need to communicate with one another. On the other hand, English is an easy language to learn and it brings culture with it. But do we really need cultural aspects to learn a language?.Scientists have already tried to create an artificial language that isn’t too difficult and it doesn’t include any one group’s culture. It is called Esperanto but it hasn’t become popular. Maybe the popularity of English won’t last that long either will it? Who knows. There are more people in the world who speak Chinese than any other language, maybe someday Chinese will be the new international language.

• Answer the following question based on the reading:1. Give 5 reasons why English is the most spoken language

in the world?2. Do you consider English an easy language to learn?

Why?3. What are some benefits of being bilingual?

4. Which English accents do you find easier to understand?5.For what reasons are you studying English?

6.Which ability (reading,speaking,writing,listening) do you find easier when learning English?

7.Would you study any other language in the future?8.What advices would you give to a person who is just

started to learn English?9. What do you do to practice your English?

RIDDLES

• What has a neck, but no head? • What can't be used until it's broken? • What are two things people never eat before breakfast? • What comes down but never goes up?• If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?• How many months have 28 days??• I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?• What has one eye but cannot see?• Mary’s father has 5 daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth

daughter’s name?• What keeps running but never stops?• Mr. Blue lives in the blue house, Mr. Pink lives in the pink house, and Mr.

Brown lives in the brown house. Who lives in the white house?

LUNCH AND DINNER

A SECRET

ALL OF THEM

The president