TULA-TEPEJI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY.

NAME: Ángel Isaac Moreno Martínez.

TEACHER: JAVIER TORRES VILLEGAS.
AFFAIR: WRITING.
GROUP: 8IQ-G2.
DATE: 27/01/2012.
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WHERE THE LANGUAGE IS SPOKEN.
English is the primary language in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the
Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Indian Ocean Territory, the British
Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Dominica, the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar,
Grenada, Guam, Guernsey, Guyana, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jamaica, Jersey,
Montserrat, Nauru, New Zealand, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, Ascension and
Tristan da Cunha, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint
Lucia, Singapore , Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Trinidad and Tobago,
the Turks and Caicos Islands, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Among the countries where English is not the most widely spoken language, but is
an official language, are Botswana, Cameroon, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji,
Gambia, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Malta ,
Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea,
Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Sri
Lanka, Sudan, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe
. There are also countries where in some part of their territory English became a co-
official language, for example, the Bay Islands of Honduras, the Mosquito Coast of
Honduras and Nicaragua, San Andrés and Providencia of Colombia, as a result of
the influence of the British colonization in the area. (Inglés in México. (2007).)
HOW MANY PEOPLE SPEAK IT?
Approximately 375 million people speak English as their first language. English today
is probably the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin
Chinese and Spanish. However, when native and non-native speakers are
combined, it is surely the most widely spoken language in the world, albeit possibly
second, counting a combination of the various Chinese languages (depending on
whether the distinctions in the latter are classified as "languages" or
"dialects").(Inglés in México. (2007).)

Estimates of it as a second language vary widely, from 470 million to more than a
billion, depending on how literacy or proficiency and different levels are defined.28
29 Linguistics professor David Crystal estimates that non-native speakers are more
numerous than native speakers by a ratio of 3 to 1.30. (Inglés in México. (2007).)
ITS ORIGIN.
English is descended from the language spoken by the Germanic tribes who
migrated from the shores of the North Sea, in what are now the Netherlands,
northern Germany, and part of Denmark, to the British Isles - a territory as large as
the which would eventually be called England (Englaland 'land of the Angles') -.
Among the tribes that migrated, there were contingents of Angles, Friesians, Jutes,
and Saxons. Their language is called Old Anglo-Saxon. (Inglés in México. (2007).)
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, around the year 449, Vortigern, king of the
British Isles, extended an invitation to some Angles led by Hengest and Horsa to
help him against the Picts. In return, the Anglo-Saxons would be granted land in the
southeast. More help was sought, and Angles, Saxons, and Jutes came in response.
The chronicle documents the subsequent arrival of "settlers," who eventually formed
seven kingdoms: Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Kent, Essex, Sussex, and
Wessex. However, in the judgment of most modern scholars, this Anglo-Saxon story
is legendary and politically motivated. (Ángela Bohórquez S. (2018).)

Influence in other languages.

The influence of English in other languages of the world is evident, and in the case
of Spanish it was not going to be less. One of the clearest manifestations of this
influence is the presence of numerous Anglicisms in the Spanish language, which
have been widely accepted, and in some cases even displace Spanish words with
the same meaning. (Ángela Bohórquez S. (2018).)
Grammar.

English grammar is the set of rules that structures the lexicon in the English
language. This includes words, phrases, clauses, and sentences, until they form the
structure of complete texts.
There are historical, social, cultural, and regional variations of English. The
divergences from the grammar described here occur in some dialects. This article
describes a generalized standard English: the spoken and written form used in the
public environment; such as media, education, entertainment, government and
news, in a variety of registers ranging from formal to informal.1 There are grammar
differences between the standard forms of British, American and Australian English,
although these are minor than differences in vocabulary and pronunciation. (Ángela
Bohórquez S. (2018).)
EXPRESSIONS IN PORTUGUESE.

 We'll cross that bridge when we come to it

 Wrap your head around something
 You can say that again
 Your guess is as good as mine
Reference:

 Made from Inglés in México. (2007). Inglés Culture and Language. January,
2021, of the EUA, Sitio web: https://pangeanic.es/conocimiento/breve-
historia-del-idioma-ingles/
 Ángela Bohórquez S. (2018). Where does Inglés come from?. January,
2021, of Share MASTER WORD. Sitio web: https://englishlive.ef.com/es-
mx/blog/ingles-en-la-vida-real/de-donde-viene-el-idioma-ingles/