Every year several thousand people die in car accidents in Great Britain. And between one and two hundred thousand people are hurt.
There are rules to make the roads safe, but people do not always obey the rules. They are careless. If everybody obeys the rules, the road will be much safer. How can we make the roads safer?
Remember this rule. In Great Britain, traffic keeps to the left. Cars, buses and bikes must all keep to the left side of the road. In most other countries, traffic keeps to the right.
Before crossing the road, stop and look both ways. Look right and left. Then, if you are sure that the road is clear, it is safe to cross the road. If you see small children or very old people, help them to cross the road. We must teach our children to cross the road safely. We must always give them a good example. Small children must not play in the street.

Today, English is (30) second of three most popular mother tongue in the world, with an estimated 430-400 million (31) . But, crucially, it is also the common tongue for many non-English speakers the world over, and almost a quarter of the globe’s population - maybe one and a half or two billion people - can (32) it and have at least some basic competence in its use, whether written or spoken.
It should be noted here that statistics on the numbers around the world who speak English are unreliable at best. It is notoriously difficult (33) quite what is meant by “English speaker”, let alone the definitions of first language, second language, mother tongue, native speaker, etC. What level of competency counts? Does a thick creole (English based, but completely incomprehensible to a native speaker) count? Just to add to the confusion, there are a least 40 million people in the nominally English-speaking United States (34) do NOT speak English. In addition, the figures, of necessity, combine statistics from different sources, different dates, etc. You may well see large variations on any statistics quoted.