i) Reasons in support of the statement (that English is a useful language)

ii) Definition (of a speech community)

iii) Classification (of speakers of English into two groups)

iv) Examples of

          a) nations with a single major speech community,

          b) nations made up of many speech communities,

          c) speech communities extending across national boundaries,

          d) countries where English is the native language,

          e) countries where English is learnt as a second language,

           f) the use of English as a functional language.

v) Restatement (That a second language extends one's vision and expands the mind is restated in later sentences.)