The English language is a dynamic phenomenon. Like your mobile phone or the grass in the garden, it is continually , constantly acquiring new characteristics. Many of these changes occur because of the way we live. As the world we need to find different ways of describing it, to fill the gaps in our vocabulary for new ideas.

Some of these words will stay in our vocabulary, others won"t. Only time will tell. But the ways we new words will continue, and will create many more new expressions in years to .

(Kerry Maxwell. Brave New Words: a language lover"s guide to the 21st century. In: Global Pre-intermediate coursebook. Clandfield, L. Oxford: Macmillan, 2010.)

“According to the teachers who use the , a fundamental purpose of learning a foreign language is to be able to read literature written in the target language. To do this, students need to learn about the grammar rules and vocabulary of the target language. They are taught to translate from one language to another. Often what they translate are readings in the target language about some aspect of the culture – mainly literature and fine arts. Reading and writing are the primary skills that the students work on. Very little attention is given to speaking and listening and the roles of the teacher are very traditional.”

(Source: LARSEN-FREEMAN, D. Techniques and Principles in language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Adapted).