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4. With your teacher’s help, brainstorm ideas that may help to define what
aspect(s) of linguistic diversity are of interest to you. Biulding stage

• If you need some ideas, go back to Activity 2. Look at the example.
Establishing topics and questions about linguistic diversity

Varieties
Languages of English
spoken in
Importance
Mexico
Countries of linguistic
where many Linguistic diversity
diversity
languages are
spoken
Most
Remember
used languages
Number on the Internet
Linguistic diversity
of languages
refers to the
spoken in each
fact that people
Countries
country of the
Number where English around the planet
Americas use many different
of languages
is spoken
languages to
in the world
communicate with
others.
5. Discuss which topics from Activity 4 are appropriate for an oral
presentation and which are not. Look at the example.

I agree with
you. On the other

I think it would
hand, I don’t think we have
be interesting to find
any sources of information
out which countries
we can use to look for
speak the most languages, the number of languages
because we can draw
spoken in each country
a map to show that.
session 2 FOR OUR PRESENTATION
of the Americas.

6. Choose a suitable topic to work with for the oral presentation.

• Discuss what you would like to know about the topic you’ve chosen with

your teammates.
• Ask questions based on what you want to know. Look at the example.

Topic: Countries where many languages are spoken. Importance of linguistic diversity
Questions: What are the countries in which many languages Is the percentage of the population
that speaks each language the same?
are spoken? Why is it important to keep
How many languages are spoken in each of
those countries? languages alive?
What is the name of each language?

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