How English became a world language

In only 400 years English went from being spoken by 4 million people to being spoken by 2 billion people. 

England was invaded by many countries through the years, the invaders left a lot of new words there. England owned 1/4 of the world for some time with many colonies, and they made the people in the colonies speak English. England had a had a head start in the industrial revolution, which made them a even bigger super power. When England claimed a part of America and failed, a new English speaking super power was borne. When the internet came, English was the main language, which made it every internet users second language.

  

Sources: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SfKhlJIAhew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-YDGxVNuxO0

Trip

Today we went for a trip during the English lesson.

It was a long, long trip into the wild. The first i noticed was the good smell of the wet nature with a fresh wind blowing up on us. The night before, it had been raining and it was a thick fog in the morning. When we went for the trip the fog had just cleared out, which was still possible to feel. It was a usual Autumn wind and the leaves fell from the trees when the wind got stronger.
The rays of light where strong from the clear sky and they blended me. We went pass some construction machines and it smelled like hot oil and exhaust. 



Quotes

 

Today we have been given a task to red some quotes and choss the one we like the best and write about it.

 

 

The one i chose is "When you teach your son, you teach your son`s son."

 

In my opinion this is the best one because it tells abot how the things you teach you children often stays with them for the rest of their lives. And if you teach some good life lessions to them they will maybe tell it further to their children. But i thinkt that it have some bad sides to. For exmple  if you are bad to your children, they will in a way become bad, which also can be learned to your grandchildren. Because if you are are bad to you children, they can get traumatised and they can be bad them selves having you as their role model.

 

It is also a good reason to keep your children from having dumb habits.  

 

 



Trip to Galdhøpiggen

 



Last week I went with my school on a geography trip. At first we went to Lillehammer, where we bought food for the next days and ate on Mc`Donalds. Then we drove for approximately two hours to a place named Hell (Helvete in Norwegian). The reason why we went to Hell, was that it is some exciting geological phenomena called "Jettegryter"- or potholes in English.



When we had been to the potholes we went to a place called Kvitskriuprestinn. I did not go there because of my bad knees, so I don`t know much about it compared to my classmates. But I know that there are some wery special columns made of dirt. When every one was back in the bus, we went to the camping place nearby the river Sjoa.

 

When we came to the camp, we put up the Lavvu. Then it was time to eat, and  I had brought a big barbeque and some Tex Mex chicken wings with potato salad. It was absolutely fantastic with the meal after some long hours in a warm and exhausting bus. When we were finished eating, we went over to some cows that stood on a field and played with them for some time. Some time in the middle of the night, some of us went out of the tent to get some fresh air. We went over to a big lavvu and I went in first. Inside the lavvu it was a Norwegian badger.

 

Here is a picture of me from the trip. in the background you can see the tent.


In the morning we put on the wetsuits and went by bus up the river Sjoa. We put out the boats on the river and one of the guides held a security lesson. In the end of the lesson the guide made us pray to the river gods, the prayer was like this; "Dear river gods i will not try to put my feet to the bottom of the river, because then i will probably get stuck and die", and we  repeated the prayer tree times. When he was finished talking, we rafted down the river. It was much cooler then I expected, mainly because one of the guys in our boat asked the guide if we could go "Hardcore", and we did go hardcore. When we had finished rafting I took a shower and put on some dry clothes.

 

 

 

 

After the rafting we drove for two hours with the bus to a mountian museum in Lom. We finished at the museum pretty fast and went to a snowdrift which had a tunnel all the way to the ground, where the ice was some thousand years old. It was freaking cold there.

The next morning every one except Per, Caroline and I, went to the top of Norways highest mountain. The mountain is called Galdhøpiggen. The others were away for like seven hours. In the meantime we were sitting in a cabin under the top of the mountian, waiting for the others to get back. Of course it was pretty boring sitting there for seven hours, but time passed suprisingly fast. Here is a picture of the Galdhøpiggen:

Early the day after, we packed our bags and went by bus back home.

It was a cool and exciting trip.