高中英语必修1第二单元课文

At the end of the 16th century,about five to seven million people spoke English.Nearly all of them lived in England.in the next century ,people from England started moving to other parts of the world ,so English began to be spoken in many other countries.Today ,more people speak English as their first ,second or foreign language then ever before.China may have the largest number of English speakeers.