WHY DO I WANT TO COMMUNICATE IN ENGLISH ?
But why do we want to communicate in English?
Here are some possible reasons.
Do you agree with them?
Do the activity below.
Do you have other reasons of your own?
Add these reasons to the list. You may also rearrange the points in the list in an order of importance that you think is correct. You may give examples to support your answer.
1. People who know English can get better jobs.
2. I want to speak to people from different parts of India, who speak other languages than my own.
3. Every important person I can think of knows English.
4. I want to speak to people from all over the world - most of them know some English.
5. I need English to study further.
6. I need English to go abroad.
7. I like English.
8. [Do you have any other reasons?
List them.]
The activity you just did must have helped you to think a little about why English is a language that so many people want to learn. English is in India today "a symbol of people's aspirations for participation in national and international life," as one group of scholars put it.
It has been called a "window on the world" (this was Jawaharlal Nehru's term for it). The opening up of the Indian economy coincided with an explosion in the demand for English in our country, because English is perceived to open up opportunities.
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