新标准初中英语九年级(上):UNIT2 Speak English(在线收听

[00:00.00]Module 4 ENGLISH: AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUGAE
[00:09.55]UNIT 2 When people are in meetings,
[00:13.26]they often use English.
[00:17.16]1 Listen and read.
[00:20.84]How Do People Use English in the 21st Century?
[00:26.38]Fewer people speak English than Chinese.
[00:30.67]Only about six percent of the world speak
[00:34.51]English as a first language.
[00:37.50]However,English is a very important language
[00:41.82]because of how and when people use it.
[00:45.84]A lot of news and information is in English.
[00:50.06]Approximately eighty percent of the information
[00:53.54]on the Internet is in English.
[00:56.85]More than half of
[00:58.00]the world's newspapers use English.
[01:01.62]There is often one daily English
[01:04.16]newspaper in countries
[01:06.23]where English is not the main language.
[01:09.75]In China, for example,
[01:12.02]there are several English language newspapers
[01:15.40]such as the China Daily and the 21st Century.
[01:21.06]In many countries,
[01:22.68]television news is often in English,too.
[01:26.51]In China, there's a nation TV channel
[01:29.75]in English and some local channels
[01:32.82]are also in English.
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