languages and language Diversity

Vocabulary : A

1. There are many different writing form. The English language uses the Roman alphabet.
2. A dermatologist is a doctor who in problems of the skin.
3. The United States is into fifty states.
4. In the fifty years, the population of the world has increased rapidly.
5. Can I your pen for just a minute?
6. It’s much easier to west snow into ball than to use dry snow.
7. In some countries, students their professors by their first names.
8. Noam Chomsky, a professor at MIT, is one of the most famous linguists in the
world.
9. A team of workers can build a car at a faster than people working alone.
10. the word diversity has nine

Vocabulary: B


1. The best way to become is to live in a foreign country.
2. His friends began to worry about him when he said that there was no longer anything in his life
3. If you want to study how people learn languages, you should take a course.
4. Motorcyclists wear helmets to prevent injury in an accident.
5. I don’t know the exact population of my city, but I that there are about 2 million people.
6. My dentist said that I need to go to a to get my tooth fixed.
7. During the president’s speech, she made to an important new medical study.
8. The computer for the whole office was down for two days.
9. When you exercise, your heart goes up.
10. We had such a large class that the instructor had to it up into three
groups.


Vocabulary: C

1. Harmless a. Negative1. student Calm
2. student
3. often
4. drop
5. certainlty
6. fear
7. full
8. Negative
9. request
10. land


Comprehension Questions

1. What is the definition of a language?Languages is the system of sounds, gestures, or characters.
2. What is a sign language? Sign Languages is sign of comminucation.
3. In English, the basic order of words in a sentence is subject, verb, object. What is the basic order of words in your first languages? The samething
4. What is an example of a borrowed word?
5. What is an example of an invented word?
6. What is one difference between the Austronesian languages family and the Indo –Eropean language family?
7. Why is it useful to group languages into famies?
8. Should we try to keep languages alive? why or why not?
9. Why is it more difficult for adults than children to learn a second language?

F Paraphrasing

1. There are about 150 American Indian languages spoken today. These languages have many differences among them and have been divided into more than fifty languages families.
1. All languages have rules for forming words and for ordering those words into meaningful sentences.
2. Most children learn their firs languages easily- and sometimes other languages as well. Adults often must work harder at learning a second language.
Many hearing - impaired people use sign languages, in which gestures do the work of the sound system of spoken languages.
G Main Idea

1. Writte a centence for the main idea for paragraph 4 (lines 19-27). The languages are always changing, but they change very slowly.
2. writte a centence for the main idea for paragraph 7 (lines 47-51).

I Active and Passive
1. The lecture on safe driving was very.
2. is an important characteristic for someone working in a bank.
3. That mystery program was very. I didn't know how it was going to end until the last minute.
4. The telephone by Alexander Graham bell.
5. The minister of healt didn't like some of the questions that the asked him. He by a foreign journalist.
6. Marge started a fight with her sister. This was very of marge; She is usually nice to her sisiter.
7. Barbara is going to study . Then she will work with people who have problems.
8. Dan his friend to lend him his car.
9. Mr. T hompson is a person. You know that the will do what he says. You can him.