1. Give an outline of the different views on the state of foreign language learning in Britain presented in the text

Overall, there can be a lot of different views on the importance of learning a foreign language while growing up in an English speaking country. While some find it a very necessary and important thing to learn, to fit into today’s globalised world, others think that speaking English is enough. For example, text 1, 2 and 3 are all articles discussing whether learning of foreign language is important or not, but they doesn’t agree with each other’s conclusions.
On the one hand text 1 claims that refusing to learn foreign languages is like refusing to evolve in phase with the rest of the world. He finds it a very important skill and argues that the reluctance to learn foreign languages in Britain will at last cause the end of any political and economic wellbeing in the future.
On the other hand article 2 claims that even though it agrees with the fact that speaking a foreign language fluently is an advantage for anyone, it doesn’t influence British economy in such an extremely way as described in text 1.
In addition, text 3 totally differs from the other articles in its way of seeing the discussion. While the other articles take stands on whether learning foreign languages in Britain is important or not, text 3 claims that the discussion is far more nuanced than that. She argues that in Britain there is not a very big incentive to learn EU languages, because it doesn't give you any assets at the labour market. Instead British schools offer lots of other languages.
So first of all some will be convinced that Britain must do a better effort to brief the pupils on the importance of learning foreign languages. On the other hand others think that speaking English is enough, because it seems like everyone sees English as a public language, and last but