In an English-language class, Mohammad Bakhtiari stood in front of his pupils and discussed the architecture of the language: sentence structure, the formation of paragraphs, the conjugation of verbs.
Joyce, the first batsman to 1, 000 runs this season in English first-class cricket, also believes that Namibia and Scotland are also in with a great chance to take the honours.
The country now boasts legions of thriving small businesses and a fair number of world-class ones whose English-speaking bosses network confidently with the global elite.
Only a handful of Indian politicians - mostly the upper class and English-speaking - use social media to communicate.
Even the term "gay" can be considered to apply only to an educated, English-speaking, wealthier class here.
On a recent day in Lopez's third-grade English class in Miami, the students learned the four points of the compass by reading and acting out a poem.
The Van Dyck Shirleys capture the enchantment with exoticism that seems almost as emblematic of upper-class English life as the portraits of lords and dogs on view.
The Congress will welcome the change, the allies will submit and Mr Gandhi, emboldened by the inevitable upper-class English media hype, will call an early general election in November, predicts Mr Akbar.
All the themes of upper-class English life are here: sex and incest, class, inequality and the enduring tussle over whether the best path to success is through hard work or effortless charisma.
The lead characters are two proper middle-class English ladies, played by Josie Lawrence and Miranda Richardson, who, partly to get away from their husbands, pool their resources to rent an Italian villa called San Salvatore for a month.
Which is why Katherine Ye Zi, an English-language teacher, selected the class of Internet trailblazers from the different ethnic groups.
Voters also will decide the fate of Prop. 227, a measure aimed at teaching students almost exclusively in English after a one-year transition class.
Another group of researchers interviewed parents and children from 124 well-off white middle-class families in three English cities.
His 10th-grade stepdaughter's English class has 46 students, he said.
Likewise, the team says that Henry, who won a World Cup with France and scored 175 goals for Arsenal in the English Premier League, has a world-class pedigree that has helped sell tickets, attract new players and bring both the club and the league a level of credibility that few other players on the planet could provide.
In the less cossetted standard-class carriages, the traditional English apprehension of foreigners is more in evidence.
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In a teacher training college in remote Syktyvkar, the unannounced arrival of a British journalist in an English class provokes a lively and well-informed discussion of Rudyard Kipling's novels.
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Like a charming English country inn, with gracious service and first-class food.
The teacher, an American expat, spoke to the class solely in English, almost unheard-of in French schools where foreign languages are taught in French by French natives, and we were all handed a phonebook-sized block of paper, full of lists of verbs and pronouns, useful tips, press clips (largely from The Economist) and other things to learn.
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His parents had been liberal middle-class, his father a professor of English and his mother a suffragette.
Then there's the inevitable English class distinction between Wimbledon Village, a restaurant-strewn, posh section a short walk from the club, and less-expensive Southfields, at the bottom of a very steep hill.
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Even so, I got a book flung at me for talking in class by our inspirational English teacher, an ex-army man.
As a rational, liberal-minded sort of bloke, he considers the English class structure to be a piece of antiquated and retrogressive nonsense.
This should be enough to attract good young European players to sign on, and could even persuade some to stay on in a multi-ethnic city with a growing middle class whose lingua franca is English.
Prince Abdullah hopes the new plan will have a similar effect on Saudi soccer as the creation of the Premier League in 1992 had on the English game, leading to better broadcast rights, growing fan bases, top-class players and investment in stadiums and other facilities.
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The son of a Chicago English professor, West made his mark by dressing preppy and wrapping about black middle-class angst.
Zurich, the most populous of the cantons, and the heart of the Swiss banking world, plans to start compulsory English at an early age, maybe even from the first class, the six-plus lot.
Ten years ago--the young girl studied hard, learned English, and finished high school in the top of her class.
The Chelsea takeover by Roman Abramovich was a game-changer and for the first time English and European clubs faced the prospect of competing with a club owner whose wealth made the signing of multiple world-class players possible.
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