1. What is LANGUAGE?

2. What is language? English Dutch Danish German Spanish Italian French
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Tuesday
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Sunday

3. The days of the week
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4. What is language?

5. Watch the following video and answer the questions

6. TASK FIVE: WHAT IS LANGUAGE?
English may be spoken all over the world, but that doesn't mean it's the most popular language or that you're not missing out if you choose to associate exclusively with English speakers.
English is actually only spoken by about 350 million people as a first language, which is roughly only 5% of the world population. In the grand scheme of things, 5% is very small number.
TASK:
Read the 10 reasons then choose the one you think is the most important reason for YOU Explain your answer in detail.

7. What is language?
TASK:. Go to type in something in English and translate it into another language.
Then copy the translation and translate it back into English.
Answer the questions on the sheet.

8. Literal English Translation
TASK SEVEN: What is language?
Here are some idiomatic expressions in Spanish with a literal translation in English Can you guess what the expressions actually mean?
Spanish
Literal English Translation
Actual Meaning
Clue
consultarlo con la almohada
discuss it with the pillow
If you’re having difficulty working something out you should _________________
hacer la barba a alguien
to do the beard to someone
If you want somebody to do something for you, you might have to ________________ to them.
ir a golpe de alparagata
to go by slapping sandals
means of transport

9. What have you learned from this unit so far?
STUDENT INQUIRY TASK
WHAT IS LANGUAGE???
Prior
Learning
What have you learned from this unit so far?
Rationale
Why are we investigating this topic?

10. Inquiry
questions
For example…
 An inquiry into the phonetic alphabet
An inquiry into different accents
What is a dialect?
Inquiry process
What information sources did you use?
Findings
What did you discover?

11. Reflection
 Thinking about what you have discovered in your research, how will it impact your future learning?
Vocabulary
What specific Spanish vocabulary did you learn during your inquiry?