The main thing in the twentieth century was undoubtedly the arrival of the English language as a global language. This had been anticipated for some time, but it had never happened. It didn't happen really until the 1990s - English becoming a language that is spoken in every country in the world either as a first language, second language or as a significant foreign language in schools. We've seen the extraordinary growth of the language from-well who knows, because people weren't counting in the 1950s, but - to the best part of 2 billion speakers around the world.
This is an extraordinary phenomenon, which happened in the second half of the twentieth century because that was when people needed an international lingua franco at a global level. The number of countries that were talking to each other in the United Nations in the 1940s started at about 50. Now there are 192 countries in the UN, so the number of countries wanting to talk to each other has quadrupled over that period. With independence came a desire to be different linguistically, as much as anything else, from the colonial past. What happened was that English-speaking nations, traditional colonial English speaking nations, continued to adopt English as their official language or semi official language and started to adapt it to their own circumstances

As I said, if people ADOPT language they ADAPT it, so there is always a fragmentation driven by this need for identity

So English has already become a family of languages, like Latin and the Romance family of languages a thousand years ago.

Find the verbs in the simple past tense in the interview. Then, copy the following chart in your notebook and complete it with the verbs you found:

a) Regular Verbs:

b) Irregular Verbs:

c) Negative Form:

Me ajudem nessa por favor...

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