and is virtually the only language of a whole range of other activities from scientific research to pop music."English may not be the best choice, but it is the obvious choice, for an international language. Whether we like it or not, the English language is becoming the global language. [9] Throughout this time one of the most significant events in the history of world languages was happening: English-speaking soldiers, sailors and colonisers were travelling to, and settling in countries right the way across the globe. Slowly, another international language emerged, spoken by diplomats, scientists, artists, business people and many more. Benefiting from the legacy of the British Empire, and the rise in influence of the most powerful member of that Empire - the USA - English (or kinds of English) is being spoken all over the globe. Millions of young people across the world have grown to like the sounds produced by
Johnson" (6). Another striking characteristic of Irving's writing is the preponderance of visual imagery. A painter himself, Irving often drew verbal pictures in his essays and stories, and the title of his most famous work makes a double reference to visual art: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. James Fenimore Cooper as the creator of the American historical novel. The depiction of the struggle of Native Americans against white colonisers in his Leather Stocking Tales (lecture). The creation of the American national epic in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha. James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. He lived most of his life in Cooperstown, New York, established by his father William
(c) use of, thermometer / probe; probe must be calibrated; pushed into, sand / soil, to same depth each time; repetitions at each sampling point; max 2 (d) (i) a stage during the process of succession; 1 (ii) sea couch / marram grass, grow in bare sand; dune builds up / stabilised by grasses; OR colonisers established on bare, rock / soil; example; (if not sand dunes) ref to pioneer species; organic matter builds up / humus content increases; forming soil / depth of soil increases; other species take over from grasses; A named example from Fig. 1 roots stabilise soil structure; diversity of species increases; climax eventually reached; AVP; AVP; e.g. reference to deflected succession,