Manuel Fique

A) Vocabulary


1) There are many different writing form. The English language uses the Roman alphabet.

2) A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in problems of the skin.

3) The United States is divided into a 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 estimate wet snow into balls than to use dry snow.

7) In some countries, students refer to their professor 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 workers can build a car at a faster------ than people working alone.

10) The word diversity has nine characters


B) vocabulary

1) The best way to become meaningful is to live in a foreing country.

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

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

4)Motorcyclist wear helmets to prevent past 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 a system to get my tooth fixed.

7) During the president`s speech, she made brain to an important new medical study.

8)The computer rate for the whole office was down for two days.

9)When you exercise, your heart characters goes up.

10) We had such a large class that the instructor had to divide it up into three groups.

C) vocabulary review

1) j hamrless a) negative
2 e instructor b) full
3) d once in a while c)certain
4) k lift d) often
5) c maybe e) student
6) i terrify f) request
7) b empty g) calm
8) a positive h)land
9) f demand i) fear
10) g take off j) hazardous
k) drop


E) Comprehension questions

1) What is the definition of a language?
The definition of a language is the type of idiom that the people talk according with them countries, for example the language of the people that live in France is French or Colombia spanish etc
2) What is a sign language?
Sign language is other type of comunicati0n but not talking this comunication is with signals like when the people can talk they talk by them hands.
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 basic order of words in my first language in a sentence is pronoum
4) What is an example of borrowed word?

5) What is an example of an invented word?

6) What is one difference between the Austronesian language family and the Indo- European language family?

7)why is it useful to group languages into families?

8) Should we try to keep languages alive? why or why not?

9) Why is it more difficult for adults than children to learn a second language?

F) Paraphrasing

1) Today in the world about 50% of the people speaks one of the top fifteen languages the most commont comes of Asia.

2)In the present the child`s learn new languages more easy than the adult people they make hard to learn.

3) There are about 150 American Indian languages spoken today. These languages have many differences among them and have been divided into more than fifty language family.

G) Main Idea

1) Write a sentence for the main idea for paragraph 4 ( lines 19-27)
2) Write a sentence for the main idea for paragraph 7 ( lines 46-51)

1)This paragraph is about the change that the people give to the languages of other countries, they try to speak like the people who born there.

2) This mean that this languages are the most important in the world are used more than the others like English.

I)

1) The lecture on safe driving was very instructive.
2) Honesty is an important characteristic for someone working in a bank.
3) That mystery program was very unimaginative. I didn`t know how it was going to end until the last minute.
4)The telephone invent by Alexander Graham Bell.
5) The minister of Health didn`t like some of the questions that the interview asked him. He interviewer by a foreing journalist.