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.