Languages and Languages diversity 2.26.08

Vocabulary A
1.There are many writing systems. The English language uses the roman alphabet.
2.A dermatologist is a doctor who specialize in problem 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,a professor at MIT,is one of the most famous linguists in the world.
9.A team of the workers can build a car at a faster rate than people working alone.
10.The word diversity has nine characters.
Vocabulary B
1.The best 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 learn languages, you should take a linguistics course.
4.Motorcyclists wear helmets to prevent brain injury in an accient.
5.I don't know the exact population of my city, but I estimate that there are about I that there are about 2 million people.
6.My destist 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 medical study.
8.The computer past for the whole office was down for two days.
9.When you exercise,your rate hearth goes up.
10.We had such a large class that the instructor had to divide it up into three groups.
Vocabulary C
j.hazardous 1.harmless
e.student 2.instructor
d.often 3.once in a while
k.drop 4.lift
c.certainly 5.maybe
g.calm 6.terrify
b.full 7.empty
a.negative 8.positive
f.request 9.demand
h.land 10.take off
Comprehension Question E
1.What is the definition of a language?A language is a system of sound , gestures , or characters used to communicate ideas and feelings.
2.What is a sign language?Many hearing-impaired people use sign languages,in which gestures do the work of the sound system of spoken languages.
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?The first language in spanish is subject, verb , object.
4.What is an example of a borrowed word?People invent new words for their language,borrow words from other languages,and change the meanings of words as needed.
5.What is an example of an invented word?People invented new word they borrow the other language.For ex(tomatos,meat,some different words).
6.What is one different between the Authronesian language family and the Indo-European language family?The authronesian language family have 500 words and Indo-european language family have 155 words.
7.Why is it useful to group languages into families?So that the people people of the family can be included and understood for there own languages.
8.Should we try to keep languages alive ?why or why not?Why because so that they were possible to be include and understood the one to the other.
9.Why is it more difficult for adults than children to learn a second language?Why is so more difficult adults than children to learned there second language because the adults they stay with their ideas of there country and the kids stared learning there second languages so easy.
Paraphrasing F
1.There are about 150 American indian languages spoken today.These languages have many differences among them and have been divide into more than fifty languages families.Today, 50% of the world's population speaks one of the top fifteen languages.The world's most common languages is mandarin Chinese,which has more than 1 billion speakers.
2.Most children learn their first languages easily-and something other languages as well. Adults often must work harder at learning a second languages.Adultsoften must work harder at learning a second language. Recent research indicates that a child's brain actually learns a new languages differently than an adults's brain does.
Main Idea G
1.Write a sentence for the main idea for paragraph4(lines 19 - 27).That they have to borrow some different language and some words come from different contry and from different food.
2.Write a sentence for the main idea for paragraph 7(lines 46 - 51).There are 50% precent in the world in thepopulation in speak one of languages.But there are 1 billion in speaker.