Languages and Languages Diversity

A) vcabulary

1) There are many different writing SYSTEMS. 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 balls than to use dry snow.

7) In some countries, students REFER TO their professors by their first names.

8) Noam Chomsky, professor at MIT, is one of the famous LINGUIST in the world.

9) Ateam of workers can build a car at a faster RATE than people working alone.

10) The word diversity has nine CHARACTERES.

B) Vocabulary

1)The best way to become BILINGUAL is to live in a foreign country.

2) His friends began to worry about him when he said that there was no longer anything MEANINGFUL in his life.

3) If you want to study how people lear languages, you should take a LINGUISTIC course.

4) Motorcyclists wear helmets 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 REFERENCE to an important new madical 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 it up into three groups.

C) VOCABULARY

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 (land

E) Comprehension questions

1_ What is the definition of a language?
A language is a system of sounds, gestures , or characteres used to communicate ideas and feelings.

2_ What is a sing language?
Sign languages in which gestures do the work of the sounds system of spoken lenguages.

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 language?
In spanish the orther is the same as in english.
4_ What is an example of a borrowed word?
An example of a borrowed word they borrowed words from other languages, and change the meaning of words as needed.Tomatoe

5_ What is an example of an invented word?
An example of an invented word could be byte it was invented by a computer specialists in 1959.
6_ What is one difference between the Austronesian language family and the Indo-Europeans language family?
One diffence can be that the Austronesian family contains at least 500 languages. And the Indo-European contains only fifty five languages.
7_ Why is it useful to growup languages into families?
It is useful to grow languages into families because we compare the similalities between the two languges.
8_ Should we try to keep languages alive? Why or why not?
We sould try to keep languages alive because if not it will die and at the same time cultures die too.
9_ Why is it more difficult for adults than children to learn a second languages?
It is difficult to aduts than children to learn a new language because children use the same part of the brain to learn both languages.

F) paraphrasing

There are about 150 American Indian Languages today. These languages have many differences among them and have been divided into more than fifty language families.

In America there are about 150 languages. Today these languages have differ in many ways it have been divided into more than fifty languages families among them.

Most children learn their first language easily -and some times other languages as well. Adults often must work at learning a second language.

At learning a second languge adults often more work and try harder at learning a second languages Children on the other hand learn a second lenguage easily than an adult does it because they use the same part of their braim to learn both languages.


G) Main Idea

Languages are always changing in a slow rate.

Today the most comun language is Chinese and the international language is English.

The Necklace

The Necklace

1. What might be Mme. Loisel's thoughts and feelings right after she learns that the diamond necklace was only a paste?
It think her feelings will be that she felt stupied because she espend then years to pay for somenthing that costed less than she pay.

2. How does Madame Loise changes as a result of her experiences?
She now knows that work to get something is hard and tire and it not easy to get and learn the value of money and she also learn to be content with wath she has.

3. Madame Loisel pays dearly for losing the necklace. Do you think that experience ruins her life or saves her life? Explain your answer.
I think this ruins her life because, She had to work for then years and waste her time working to pay the necklace and got old and tire and also lost her beauty.

4. The literary critic Edward D. Sullivan declares that "The Necklace" is showing that in people's lives "blind chance rules". Do you agree or disagree? cite evidence to support your opinion.
I agree with the critic, becsuse in the story Madame Loisel was lost for the money and the expensives things she want she get lost by a diamond necklace and always wanted more and more expensives things and one night she lost everithing.

5. Suppose that Madame Loisel had not lost the necklace. On the basis of her feelings and actions in the story, what do you think her future would have been like?
I think that maybe she had return the necklace and keep living the life that she had whitout work and maybe go to other parties and be young as she was.

6. Do people still chase after wealth and social status today? Explain.
People still chase today because people now marry only for money or a higher condition and it also people that now get marry for paper like to have a good status in the country etc.

7. What do you think Madame Loisel's life will be like now that she has paid off her debt and found real value of the necklace?
Madame loisel's I think now will be miserable and she will not feel good with her self because she has waste ten years of her life and got old and tire and also make her husband work doble and lost time together.

8. Analyze Madame Loisel and Monsieur Loisel' characteristics.
Madame loisel is a greedy person and her husband is not but her husband is the contrary he is a selfless person while his wife only wants more things to her whiout thinks in the others and she also thinks that she is more than the others.

9. SYMBOLISM: What does the necklace symbolize in the story?
The necklace symbolize social status richness and wealth.

10. From which point of view is the story told? Explain.
The point of view is from the third person omniscient.

11. What is the main conflict in the story?
Even though she is not rich but wants to live a richer life.

12. What is the theme of the story?
The theme of the story is is vanity where the money and luxurious life.

13. What is the moral of this story?
The moral of the story is not to be greedy and aprisiete wath you have.

14. Outline the events in "The Necklace" that form:
The events in the story are the exposition,rising action,climax,falling action and the resolution.

* EXPOSITION=The girl was a pretty charming girl born into a family of clerks and marry a little clerk of the Ministry of Public Instruction.
* RISING ACTION=When her husband bring her the invitation to the party.
* CLIMAX=When she lost the necklace.
* FALLING ACTION=They stared to work to pay the necklace and only to know that the necklace was paste.
* RESOLUTION=When they have pay the necklace and know that the necklace was only paste.