This document provides sources on the importance of English and includes exercises on strategies for reading and understanding texts. It lists sources from websites on English as a lingua franca and its use globally. It also includes exercises for scanning a text, reflecting personally on why English has become so prominent, making inferences, and reading non-verbal information. The document appears to be providing guidance and material for learning strategies when reading English texts.

1. Activities on the
importance of English

2. Sources of the text
 http://www.seplan.am.gov.br/arquivos/downl
oad/arqeditor/planejamento/des_org/treinam
entos/ingles_basico%20.pdf
 http://www.globalenvision.org/library/33/655
 http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/lingua
franca.htm
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca

3. Exercise 1:
[Scanning]
What can you use this
strategy for?

4. [dark blue]countries with significant concentrations of native speakers of English (in all of these countries
English is an official or de facto language of administration)
[light blue] other countries in which English is an official or important administrative language
Source: Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)

5. Exercise 2:
[Personal Reflection]
In your own words, state why
you think English has become
a lingua franca

6. Exercise 3:
[Making Inferences]
What can you use this
strategy for?

7. Exercise 4:
[Reading non-verbal
information]
What can you use this
strategy for?

8. Source: Extract from Christopher W. Runckel's article.
Mr. Runckel advise Federal, State and Local U.S.A. government on a
wide range of issues. He is a specialist in foreign trip planning and has
served the last seven U.S. Presidents in this capacity.