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Imagine by John Lennon

Read the text about John Lennon’s song Imagine.
You must decide if the text is correct.
If you decide a word or words shouldn’t be there then you must write this word or words below.

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Imagine, written by John Lennon, is a famous song about everyone living in the peace in our world.

The song, written in 1971, became a hit again almost 10 years later, when even John Lennon was being murdered in New York.

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It climbed to the top of the charts for a third time after the 9/11 attacks in 2001.

Although John Lennon wrote the song and took up credit for it, the ideas and inspiration for Imagine came from his wife, Yoko Ono.

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While at that time Ono wrote poems that started with the word “Imagine”. Influenced by the much hardships she went through as such a child in Japan in World War II, Ono imagined the good things in life and has wanted to make them happen.

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According to Ono, the song is about John’s dream for peace in the world.

It is something he really wanted him to say.

In the decades that followed up, Imagine became a popular song for protesters and peace activists on only every continent.

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In 2002, Liverpool, John Lennon’s hometown, renamed the airport John Lennon Airport.

A sign down on the roof of the airport has had a line from the song: Imagine: “Above us, only sky.”

English As A World Language

Read the text about the importance of English as a world language.
You must decide if the text is correct.
If you decide a word or words shouldn’t be there then you must write this word or words below.

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A few hundred years ago only people on the British Isles spoke English.

After the Age of the Exploration English ships sailed over to faraway parts of the world and have founded colonies on all continents. English became the mother tongue in the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

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In many other countries this English was spoken in schools, in government and trade products.

Today, it is still used for as a second language in India, Pakistan and other countries.

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In the course of time, while many different dialects of the English mother language developed.

British and American English, for example, differ do not only in pronunciation, but also in such vocabulary and grammar.

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There are even many reasons why English is widely used around the world.

It has become the dominant language in science and then the main language of international communication and the Internet.

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This is why English language has become the most important foreign language in child education in many countries.