2 Read these predictions about the future of English and answer the questions
that follow.
Today there are more non-native speakers More and more schools around the world will
than native speakers. Experts say that their start teaching school subjects like Maths and
number will grow in the future even faster One Science in English. This means that Maihs and
of the reasons is that more and more people Science teachers will need to have a good level
around the world need English for business and of English themselves
communication. English is also the language
of economics, technologyadvertising and
Experts also believe that children will soon
tourism. Another reason is effective teaching
start learning English from an earlier age. This
techniques. Toway you can even study English
is already happening in some countries, where
online!
pupils as young as two years old have an hour
or two of English each week.
Experts predict that in the future, the type of
In the future English will change from being a
English that we learn at school will change. There
foreign language to a basic skin At the same
will be less focus on grammar and accuracy
Teachers will concentrate more on speaking and
time, people will learn other foreign languages.
More people will be bilingual trilingual and
writing skills, making sure that students learn how
multilingual.
to communicate well.
What are the two lypes of English speakers?
2 Which skills will English teachers focus on in the future?
What will happen to the age of English students in the future?
think will come true? Why?
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Генеральные штаты во Франции, высшее сословно-представительское учреждение в 1302-1789 гг., имевшее характер совещательного органа. Генеральные штаты созывались королем в критические моменты французской истории и должны были обеспечить королевской воле поддержку общества. В своем классическом виде французские Генеральные штаты состояли из трех палат: представителей дворянства, духовенства и третьего, податного сословия. Каждое сословие заседало в Генеральных штатах отдельно и выносило особое мнение по обсуждаемому вопросу. Чаще всего Генеральные штаты утверждали решения о сборе налогов. 

States-General in France — the highest class-a Executive institution in 1302-1789 years. The emergence of the States General was associated with the growth of cities, the aggravation of social contradictions and class struggle, which caused the need to strengthen the feudal state. Predecessors of the States-General were enlarged sessions of the Royal Council (with the assistance of city top), and the provincial Assembly of estates (marking the beginning of the provincial States). The first States-General were convened in 1302, during the conflict with Philip IV Pope Boniface VIII. The States General was a deliberative body, convened on the initiative of Royal power in the critical moments to assist the government. Their main function was the quota of taxes. Each class — first, second, third estate met in General separately from other States and had one vote (regardless of the number of representatives). The third estate was represented by the tip of the townspeople. The value of the States General increased during the hundred years ' war 1337-1453, when the Royal power was particularly in need of money. In the period of popular uprisings of the fourteenth century (the Paris uprising of 1357-1358, 1358 Jacquerie) States-General claimed for active participation in the governance of the country (such requirements are expressed the States General of 1357, in the "Great March Ordinance"). However, the lack of unity between the cities and their implacable hostility to nobility made fruitless attempts of the French General States to achieve rights that has managed to conquer the English Parliament. In the end of XIV century the States General were convened less and often replaced by meetings of notables. From the end of XV century the Institute of the States General went into decline in the beginning of the development of absolutism within 1484-1560, they generally have not been convened (known to revive their activities was observed in the period of Religious wars — General States were convened in 1560, 1576, 1588, and 1593 years). From 1614 until 1789, the General States again was never going to. Only on 5 may 1789 in conditions of acute political crisis on the eve of the French revolution, the king convened the States General. On 17 June 1789 the deputies of the third estate declared itself the National Assembly July 9, the National Assembly declared itself the Constituent Assembly, which became the highest representative and legislative organ of revolutionary France. In the XX century the name of the States General took some Executive meeting dealing with political issues and expressing public opinion (for example, the Assembly of the States General for disarmament, may 1963).