1. Listening, Reading and Vocabulary

2. բարի լույս 早安 Bonjour Guten Morgen καλημέρα おはようございます 좋은 아침 صبح به خیر Dzie ń Dobry доброе утро cha ̀ o buô ̉ i sa ́ ng ดีตอนเช้า Buenos Días Good Morning Magandang Umaga Tagalo Armenian Chinese Greek French Polish Persian Russian Vietnamese Spanish Thai Swedish English Sign Language Korean German Japanese

3. Warm Up 1.How many languages do you think there are in the world? 2.Do you think languages change? 3.Do you think English will replace other languages? 4.What other language would you like to learn? 5.What language do you think it would be difficult for you to learn? Why?

4. system (n) a technique, method, procedure practice system Every person has a system for learning a foreign language.

5. characters (n) a single letter or mark used in writing Do you know how many characters are in the Chinese language?

6. form (v) to create, make, shape, construct formed The children formed a circle and played a game.

7. meaningful (adj.) significant, with meaning, with sense meaningful Kathy writes meaningful poems which deals with social issues.

8. Hearing-impaired

9. hearing-impaired (adj.) having a reduced or poor ability to hear hearing-impaired H earing aids are used by some hearing-impaired senior citizens.

10. Sign Language

11. sign language (n) a system of communicating with gestures sign language Peter learned sign language in order to communicate with his deaf parents.

12. borrow (v) to copy or take words from another language has borrowed cinemasouvenir, and petite. English has borrowed words from French; for example, cinema, souvenir, and petite.

13. specialist (n) a person who is an expert on something specialist Brian’s general doctor sent him to see a heart specialist.

14. refer to (v) stand for, suggest, signify, mean refers to Poultry refers to the meat from animals that have feathers.

15. divide (v) split into parts, separate divides The Mississippi river divides the west of Louisiana from the east.

16. brain (n) the organ in the head used for thinking and feeling brains. Humans have large brains.

17. bilingual (adj.) speaking two languages bilingual Steve is bilingual. He speaks Italian and English.

18. past (n) the time before the present, everything that happened previously past. Rosie has a mysterious past. Nobody knows about her background.

19. rate (n) speed or pace in which something moves, the cost of something rate Slaves were forced to work at a rapid rate in the cotton fields. rate The rate for the trip on that bus is $2.50.

20. estimate (v) (n) to calculate something estimates The government estimates that it would take years before the economy recovers.

21. linguist (n) a person who knows several languages and their structure linguist Molly wrote a book on the origin of the English language. She is a well-known linguist.

22. Pronunciation system character form meaningful hearing-impaired sign language borrow specialist refer to divide brain bilingual rate estimate linguists

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