Tuesday, February 26, 2008

A Vocabulary

1. There are many different writting systems. The English language uses the Roman alphabet.
2. A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in problem of the skin.
3.The United State is a divided into fifty state.
4.In the past fifty years , the population of the world has increased rapidly.
5.Can I borrow your pen for a minute?
6.It's much esier to form wet snow to balls that to use dry snow.
7.In some countries, student refer to their professors by their first names.
8.Noam Chomsky, a professor at MIT, is one of the most famous lingusts 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 mine characters.

B Vocabulary


1. The best way to become bilingual is to live in a foreig country.
2.His friends began to worry about him when he said that there was no longer anything meaningful in his live.
3.If you want to study how people learn languages, you should take a linguistics course.
4.Motorcyclist wear helmets to pervent 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 medical study.
8.The computer system for the whole office was down for two days.
9.When you exercise , you heart rate goes up.
10. We had such a large class that the instructor had to divede it up into three groups.

C Vocabulary

1. harmless=hazardous
2.instructor=student
3.once in a while=often
4.lift=drop
5.maybe=certainly
6.terrify=calm
7.empty= full
8.positive= negative
9.demand=request
10.take off=land


E Comprehension Questions

1.What is the definition of a language?
the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way
2.What is a sign language?
Is the method of humans to comminicate using signs.
3.In english, the basic order of words in sentence is sunject, verb, object. What is the basic order of words in your first language?
is the same as English.
4.What is an example of a borrowed word?
The word tomato.
5.What is and example of in invended word?
The word byte.
6.What is one difference between the Astronesian language familyand the Indo-European language family?that the astronesian has more then 500 languages and the indo-european only has 55.

7.Why is it useful to group language into families?
If you group them then you can be able to find out the similarities.
8.should we try to keep language alive? Why or Why no?
Yes because is a way to communicate your culture.
9.Why is it more difficult for adults than children to learn a second lenguage?
Because the adults use a different part of their brain to learn a second language.



F paraphrasing

1.The are about 150 American Indian languages spokenn today. The languages have many differences among them and have been divide into more than fifty language families.
the American Indian langude today have been divide into more than fifty language families.
2.Most children learn their first language easily- and sometimes other language as well. Adults often must work harder at learning a second lenguage.
The children learn easier than a adult a second language.


G Main Idea

1.Write a sentence for the main idea for paragraph 4(lines 19-27)
Language are always changing, but the hange very slowly. And peoople invent new words for their languages and some other boroow anothers and change the meaning.
2.Write sentence for the main idea for paragraph 7(lines 46-51)
Is that half of the world spaek one of the top languge english and mandarin chinese.

I Word Forms : Active And Passive

1.The lecture on safe driving was very instruct.
2.Honest is an important characteristic for someone working in a bank.
3.That mystery program was very imaginative. I didn't know how it was going to end until the last minute.
4.the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
5.The minister of Health didn't like some of the questions that the interviewer asked him. He interview by a foreign journalist.
6.Marge started a fight with her sister. This was very characteristic of Marge; she is usually nice to her sister.
7.Barbara is going to study psychology.Then she will work with people who have psychological problems
8.Dan beg his friend to lend him his car.
9.Mr. thonson is a dependable person. You know that he will do what he says. You can depend on him.

J Noun Substitutes

1.It: Word
2.They:Languages
3.They:Scientists
4.They:Adults
5.They:Languages

K Articles

1.Some languages are used by millions of - people.
2.Many hearing-impaired people use sign languages, in which the work
gesture do the work of the sound system of the spoke_langueges.
3.Word order is more important in the English language than it is in some other languages such as the Russian.
4.The English word byte was invented by a computer specialistin 1959.
5.The English word meat once referred to a food in general .
6.Experts estimate that, on averange, the word loses a language every two weeks.
7.Today ,50% of the word's population speaks one of the top fiftteen languages.
8.Recent resaerch indicates that the child's brain learns new language differently than an adult's brain does.

L Two-words verb

1.U.N. stand for United nations.
2.Tom had a big party. Afterwards, he had to clean up the house. Three of his friends stayed to help out.
3.Ali studied at New York university for five years. When he left, twenty
people went to the airport to pick him up.
4.Lets go to the party together I would pick you up.

M Guided writing

1.compare your first language to the English language. How are the similar how are they different. They are similar in the letters they use almost the same letters and difference that my lenguage is a sinfonic language and english isn't.

2.what is easy about learning a second language? what is difficult?







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