From Old English to Global English
This empire helped spread the English language to many countries around the world.
What is the British Empire?
This type of technology powers tools like ChatGPT, self-driving cars, and Siri.
What is artificial intelligence?
The name of the Vice President of the United States.
Who is JD Vance?
This British author wrote Romeo and Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This movement in the U.S. protests police violence against Black Americans.
What is Black Lives Matter?
Today, more people speak English as a _____ language than as their mother tongue.
What is a second language?
These are false beliefs that spread online, like “the moon landing was fake.”
What are conspiracy theories?
The name of the British Prime Minister.
Who is Keir Starmer?
The time and place where a story happens.
What is the setting?
This country voted to leave the European Union in 2016.
What is the United Kingdom?
This group came to England around the year 450 and helped form the early English language.
Who were the Anglo-Saxons?
These fake videos look real and can show people doing or saying things they never did.
What are deepfakes?
This is the liberal political party in the United States.
What is the Democratic Party?
This novel by Mary Shelley is about a scientist who creates a monster.
What is Frankenstein?
This American constitutional amendment is central in the country’s gun control debate.
What is the Second Amendment?
A language used to communicate between people who have different first languages.
What is a lingua franca?
This happens when algorithms show you only information you already agree with.
What is a filter bubble?
This political party in the UK is on the right side of the political spectrum.
What is the Conservative Party?
This literary device compares two things by saying one is the other.
What is a metaphor?
This international climate deal aims to limit global warming and has been abandoned by the U.S. under President Trump.
What is the Paris Agreement?
This group brought many aggressive words into English, like “scream,” “berserk,” “anger,” and “drown.”
Who were the Vikings (or Norsemen)?
This is when people only listen to those who share the same views, making their opinions stronger.
What is an echo chamber?
This is the name of the system used to elect the U.S. President.
What is the Electoral College?
This is when a writer gives a hint about something that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
In 2022, this U.S. Supreme Court case was overturned, removing the nationwide right to abortion.
What is Roe v. Wade?