🇬🇧 English Language Day is celebrated on 23 April, the date traditionally observed as both the birthday and date of death of 📚📝 William Shakespeare.
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Shakespeare was the English language’s most 💯 famous playwright. He had a huge impact on modern-day 🇬🇧 English. Shakespeare contributed hundreds of new words and phrases that are still used today. For example, the words 🙊 ‘gossip’, 💃‘fashionable’ and 😥 ‘lonely’ were all first used by Shakespeare. He also invented phrases like ‘break the ice’, ‘all our yesterdays’, ‘fainthearted’ and ‘love is blind’.
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💡 More than 1.75 billion people 🗣🇬🇧🌏 speak English worldwide – that’s around 1 in 4 people around the world.
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📌 English is being used more and more as a way for 🗣🤝🏻 two speakers with different first languages to communicate with each other, as a ‘lingua franca’.
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#KingsAcademyUz #EnglishLanguageDay #WilliamShakespeare #Tashkent #Uzbekistan #UNEnglishLanguageDay2020
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Shakespeare was the English language’s most 💯 famous playwright. He had a huge impact on modern-day 🇬🇧 English. Shakespeare contributed hundreds of new words and phrases that are still used today. For example, the words 🙊 ‘gossip’, 💃‘fashionable’ and 😥 ‘lonely’ were all first used by Shakespeare. He also invented phrases like ‘break the ice’, ‘all our yesterdays’, ‘fainthearted’ and ‘love is blind’.
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💡 More than 1.75 billion people 🗣🇬🇧🌏 speak English worldwide – that’s around 1 in 4 people around the world.
⠀
📌 English is being used more and more as a way for 🗣🤝🏻 two speakers with different first languages to communicate with each other, as a ‘lingua franca’.
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#KingsAcademyUz #EnglishLanguageDay #WilliamShakespeare #Tashkent #Uzbekistan #UNEnglishLanguageDay2020