A: Good afternoon.

B: Good afternoon.

A: Welcome to the English Corner.

B: I am from Grade Nine.

A: How long have you learned English?

B:

A: Why do you come to the English Corner?

B:

A: What advice can you give to the English Corner?

B:

A: Great. You speak English well.

B:

    John Grisham is one of the most popular American authors (作家) today. All of his books have been best-sellers (畅销书). And six books of his, including The Client, have been made into films.

    Grisham was born in Arkansas in 1955. As a child, he wanted to be a professional baseball player. Later he changed his mind and studied accounting (会计学) at Mississippi State University. After 1981, he worked in a law firm (律师事务所) for nearly ten years. Although he was working 60-70 hours a week, he got up at 5:00 am every day to write his first book, A Time to Kill. It took him three years to write this book and he finished it in 1987. His next novel, The Firm, came out in 1991. It was his first big success.

    Now Grisham lives with his wife and their two children in Mississippi. In his free time, he helps children develop their baseball skills.

    English is an important international language，but that doesn't mean it's easy to learn．①Many experts have tried to make English easier to learn,but they weren't always successful．

    In 1930，Professor C．K．Ogden of Cambridge University invented Basic English．It had only 850 words and Ogden said most people could learn it in just thirty hours．The problem was that people who learned Basic English could write and say simple messages，but they couldn't understand the answers in“real”English!

    R．E．Zachrisson，a university professor in Sweden，decided that②对英语学习者来说最大的问题是拼写 ， so he invented a language with the name of Anglic．Anglic was similar③      English，but with much simpler spelling，"father'' became “faadher'' and “new'' became “nue”．Unluckily，Anglic never became popular．

  In the age of international communication through the Internet，a new form of English might appear．A large number of world's emails are in English and include examples of“Netlingo”like OIC(Oh，I see)and TTYL，(Talk to you later)．In another fifty years，English might not be used．We might all speak fluent Internetish !

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