Beginner ⅼ Conversation Lesson 66 _LEVEL 5_
Lesson 66: How Many Languages are there in the World?
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Lesson 66: How Many Languages are there in the World?
Exercise 1 | Vocabulary and Expressions （Vocabulary and Expressions）
Directions: Listen and repeat.
(Directions: Listen and repeat.)
Vocabulary and Expressions
Examples
fascinating（fascinating）
History is so fascinating!
tribes（tribes）
In Amazon rainforests they still discover new tribes.
national identity（national identity）
Our language is our national identity.
about to（about to）
She is about to buy an expensive dress.
die out（die out）
Giant Pandas are facing the threat of dying out.
population（population）
The world’s population is more than 7 billion people.
Sounds about right.（Sounds about right.）
A: You like American TV shows? > B: Sounds about right.
bound to...（bound to...）
Some languages are bound to be popular.
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Exercise 2 | Dialogue Practice (Dialogue Practice)
Directions: Read the dialogue aloud with your teacher.
(Directions: Read the dialogue aloud with your teacher.)
Stella and Adam are talking about languages.
Stella: Did you know that there are more than a thousand languages in the world?
Adam: No, I always thought there are only over a few hundreds of them... That is fascinating!
Stella: It sure is. I think we usually think about popular languages, like Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, English...
But also there are so many tribes discovered, and they have their own languages.
Adam: If they all could speak English, it would be so easy to communicate!
Stella: Well, maybe. But their language is a part of their national identity.
Adam: But I heard that some languages are about to die out.
Stella: I think this happens when the population becomes smaller and smaller or is destroyed by war.
Adam: Sounds about right. If there are no people to speak that language, then the language is bound to
die.
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Check your understanding: Answer the following questions.
1. How many languages are there in the world?
2. What is the language considered to be a part of?
3. How does a language die?
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Exercise 3 | Listening Comprehension (Listening Comprehension)
Directions: Your teacher will read a text. First, listen to it. After that, choose the right answer to the
questions.
(Directions: Your teacher will read a text. First, listen to it. After that, choose the right answer to the
questions.)
“Listen to the teacher as they read the text”
1. What was Giovanni doing?
A. Giovanni was counting how many languages there were on the planet.
B. He was trying to count all the countries in the world.
2. What did Giovanni want to do?
A. Giovanni wanted to learn at least 10% of the world’s languages.
B. He had a wish to travel to all 196 countries of the world.
3. How many languages did Alina say there were in the world.
A. Alina said that there’s around one hundred languages.
B. She told Giovanni that the world has more than a thousand languages.
4. What did Giovanni decide at the end?
A. Giovanni decided to start learning new languages right away.
B. His decision at the end was to just stick to improving his English for now.
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Exercise 4 | Role Play (Role Play)
Directions: Have a role play with your teacher in the situation below.
(Directions: Have a role play with your teacher in the situation below.)
Situation: You are a teacher, and your teacher will act as a student. Talk to your student about languages,
especially your mother tongue.
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Exercise 5 | Conversation Questions (Conversation Questions)
Directions: Take turns with your teacher in answering the questions.
(Directions: Take turns with your teacher in answering the questions.)
1. Do you know someone who speaks many languages?
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages if everybody in the world speaks a unified language?
3. Have you ever heard about Esperanto language?
4. What languages would you want to learn?
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