A)Vocabulary:
System characters form meaningful
borrow specializes refer to divided
past rate estimate linguists
1)There are many different writing system. The English languages uses the Roman alphabet.
2)A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in problems of the skin.
3)The United States is divided into fifty states.
4)In the past fifty years, the population of the world has increased rapidly.
5)Can I borrow your pen for just a minute?
6) It's much easier to form wet snow into ball than to use dry snow.
7) In much countries, students refer to their profesors by thir first name.
8) Noam Chomsky, a profesor at MIT, is one of the most famous characters in the world.
9)A team of workers can build a car at a faster rate than people working alone.
10)The word diversity has nine meaningful.
B vocabulary.
1) The best way to become linguistics is to live in a foreign country.
2) His friends began to worry about him when he said that there was no longer anything meaninful in his life.
3) If you want to study how people learn languages, you should take a bilingual course.
4) Motorcyclist wear helmest to prevent brain injury in an accident.
5) I don't know the exact population of my city, but I estimate that there are about 2 million people.
6) My dentist said that i need to go to a specialist to get my tooth fixed.
7) During the president's speech, she made referents to an important new medical study.
8) The computer system for the whole office was down for two days.
9) When you exercise, your heart rate goes up.
10) We had such a large class that the instructor had to divide.
C VOCABULARY REVIEW: ANTONYMS:
1- HARMLESS j. hazardous
2- INSTRUCTOR e. student
3- ONCE IN A WHILE d.often
4- LIFT k.drop
5- MAYBE c.certainly
6- TERRIFY g.calm
7- EMPTY b.full
8- POSITIVE a.negative
9- DEMAND f.request
10-TAKE OFF h.land
E COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS:
1- WHAT IS THE DEFINITON OF A LANGUAGE?
a defeniton of a language is the languge you talk or many people talk.
2- WHAT IS A SIGN LANGUAGE?
the sing of languages is comunication.
3- IN ENGLIISH, THE BASIC ORDER OF WORDS IN YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE? OBJECT. WHAT IS THE BASIC ORDER OF WORD NIN YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE?
all language have rules fir forming words and for forming words and for ordering thise words into meaningful sentences.
4- WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF BORROWED WORD?
borrowed words from other languages and chnge the menings of words as needed
5- WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF AN INVENTED WORD?
the negllish words byte was inventedc by a computer specialist.
6- WHAT IS ONE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGE FAMILY AND THE INDO- EUROPEAN LANGUAGE FAMILY.
the difference between is that austronesian family contain at least 500 languanges and the indo-european language family contains fifty-five languages.
7- WHY IS IT USEFUL TO GROUP LANGUAGES INTO FAMILIES?
its is useful to group languages into families because there are different groups and you compare the similarities between the languages.
8- SHOULD WE TRY TO KEEP LANGUAGES ALIVE?WHY OR WHY NOT?
we should keep language alive because if not then by the time past.
9- WHY IS IT MORE DIFFICULT OR ADULTS THAN CHILDREN TO LEARN A SECOND LANGUAGE?
It is more difficult to adults than children to learn a second language becuase the childrens have more capacity to learn faster and as ther are in school learn more.
F) 1. THERE ARE ABOUT 150 AMERICANS INDIAN LANGUAGES SPOKEN TODAY. THESE LANGUAGES HAVE MANY DIFFERENCES AMONG THEM AND HAVE BEEN DIVIDED INTO MORE THAN FIFTY LANGUAGE FAMILIES.
There are about 150 Americans Indian languages around the world spoken today. Thas why these languages have many differences among them and have been divided into more than fifty languages families.
2. MOST CHILDREN LEARN THEIR FIRST LANGUAGES EASILY AND SOMETIMES OTHER LANGUAGES AS WELL. ADULTS OFTEN MUST WORK HARDER AT LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE.
Childrens attend to learn their first languages easily and sometimes other languages as well. Adults frenquently must work harder at learining second languages.
G) MAIN IDEA
1. WRITE A SENTENCE FOR THE MAIN FOR PARAGRAPH 4 (LINE 19-27).
Laguange are always changing , but they change very slowly. And people invent new words from other languages.
2.WRITE A SENTENCE FOR THE MAIN FOR PARAGRAPH 7 (LINE 46-51)
Today, 50% of the world's population speaks one of the top fiften languages.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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