More than 3,000 languages are spoken on the earth today. Many of these languages are spoken (1) small groups of people. On the (2) hand, over 200 languages are spoken by one million or more people. Chinese is the language spoken by the (3) number of people in the world. But English is most (4) spoken in the world.
English is spoken by more than 400 million people (5) their first language. It is (6) by most people in the U.S.A., Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. And it is (7) used very widely in many other countries of the world.
Look at the back of your watch. You may see the English words“Made (8) China, or Japan, even Germany.”English is the first language in (9) of these countries. Why are English words (10) on it? That is because in the modern world English is widely used for business between different countries.