A World of many Languages

A World of Many Languages

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A Window to the world

A WINDOW to the world

Reasons to learn English

Watch the video and correct one word in each sentence

1) The man bys an iRabbit and the instructions are very complicated. 2) The man cannot say "Start" properly. 3) The man calls the help desk, but he cannot pronounce his address correctly. 4) He mispronounces the word "place" three times and is misunderstood 5) The main problem is the man´s spelling of the words.

Discuss and Find out * Does a language reflect the character of the people in the country where it is spoken? * In your opnion is the great diversity of languages in the world a barrier to communication or is it a constant source of enrichment? * Which language is spoken by most people as their first language as mother tongue? * What are the five most spoken languages in the world? * Which language is the most international?

* How many official languages are there in the EU? * What type of languages do you know?

After you had read the graph, complete the text with data from it:

It is estimated that 7000 different languages are spoken in the world today, This graph show data about the _______1) most spoken languages around the world. As we can understand from this graph , _______2) has the largest number of native speakers. ________3) represents the second most spoken native language with a total number of ______4) speakers. However, _________5) is considered a "língua franca" because is used to communicate with others in all the world, whereas our mother tongue is spoken by ________ 6) people as a first language.

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