This lesson contains 32 slides, with interactive quiz, text slides and 5 videos.
Items in this lesson
Language Awareness
Slide 1 - Slide
Language Awareness
Ms Seinen
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Content
Introduction
The Language Puzzle
Slang, Accents, Dialects
Conclusion
Slide 3 - Slide
Part I - Intro
Language Awareness
What do you expect?
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What is a language?
Slide 6 - Mind map
Language
'a system of communication used by a particular country or a community’ (Lexico.com, 2021)
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Language awareness
is knowing how to learn and use these systems of communication effectively, so that they do what you want them to do, and purposefully, so that they help you reach your goals.
Slide 8 - Slide
Passport Assignment
No talking! Afterwards you are going to compare and contrast.
timer
5:00
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Compare and contrast
and REPORT :-)
timer
5:00
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Part II
The Language Puzzle
timer
15:00
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Part II
The Language Puzzle
timer
8:00
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Slide 15 - Video
Slide 16 - Video
Part III
Slang, Accents and Dialects
'A language is a dialect with an army and a navy'
Max Weinreich (1894 -1969)
Slide 17 - Slide
Slide 18 - Video
Turn the spinner and define the word that you get.
Slide 19 - Slide
Slang
'a type of language that is typically thought of as informal and more used in speech than in writing'
Lexico.com (2021).
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Accent
'a distinctive way of pronouncing a language', especially one associated with a particular country, area, or social class.
Lexico.com (2021).
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Dialect
'A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group'.
Lexico.com (2021).
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Standard language
'The official language of a country'.
Lexico.com (2021).
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Language status
The relative position of a language in relation to other languages
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Language status
tells you something about the value people attach to a (certain form of) a language. It often ties in with how they, consciously or subconsciously, judge and rank other people.
