The coalition government says it is reviewing English language requirements across the visa system.
For English, it says there is an "obsession with particular literary texts".
English Heritage says it needs "a dynamic and inspirational leader" to look after the site in Wiltshire.
Head teachers' leader Brian Lightman, who has campaigned over GCSE English grades, says it shows trust in the exam system is at an "all time low".
"When you hear that a poor boy caught the world record, it gives you hope, " he says in perfect English.
But the government says it is already a compulsory National Curriculum subject and the English Baccalaureate is to encourage more students to take up geography and history in addition to RE - not instead of it.
"Curzon's Bill reintroduced the idea of compulsion, the idea that was originally in Lubbock's act and had be taken out because it was considered intolerable, " says Simon Thurley, chief executive of English Heritage.
"Since the three of us come from three different parts of Afghanistan and speak in three different languages - Pashto, Dari and Uzbek - we thought it would be a good idea to sing in English, " says Ahmad.
"It is English modified under the influence of African languages, " he says.
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) wants the government to scrap the test - it says that breaking up families is more damaging than some migrants not speaking English.
Madiha Sarwar had to take the language test in Lahore in Pakistan before joining her husband in east London, and says it has given her an advantage over those who did not speak English before they arrived.
If current growth rates continue, it says, the number of Internet users accessing the Internet in languages other than English (predominantly, in Chinese) will overtake English language users by 2015.
Nonetheless, Rogers did not feel the environment was conducive to staying in the English game after his announcement and says he would have found it hard to come out at any global club -- after being asked whether he could have done so during a 2007-2011 stint with MLS side Columbus Crew.
It says more than 10, 000 pupils missed out on a C grade in GCSE English because of what they have called a "statistical fix".
At Kennesaw State University in Georgia, the Intensive English Program doesn't teach a slang expression until it is in use for more than one generation, says David Johnson, a professor of English and director of the program.
"It's the oldest story in the world, " says Norman Gimbel, who wrote the English lyrics.
"It flows so well in the English language because that's the original language, " she says.
EST, it will become the first station to broadcast an English-language, 24-hour news channel from the Middle East, which it says will be watched in 80 million cable households.
"Right now, if you want to make an independent English-language film, this is the cheapest country you can make it in, " says Rick McCallum, the American producer of the next two Star Wars episodes, which are being shot in Sydney.
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