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13. Read the following information.

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How many languages are there in the world?
When people are asked how many languages they think there are in
the world, the answers vary quite a bit. One random sampling of New
Yorkers, for instance, resulted in answers like “probably several hundred.”
The 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, for example, implies
a figure somewhere around 1,000. The most extensive catalog of the
world’s languages, generally taken to be as authoritative as any, is that of
Ethnologue, whose detailed list as of 2009 included 6,909 distinct languages.
That disparity is not due to any increase in the number of languages, but
rather to our increased understanding of how many languages are actually
spoken in areas that had previously been underreported.
Source: Lingüistic Society of America: http://goo.gl/Rdj616

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• Listen to Track 43 to hear how three students retell the
text you just read. TRACK 43

14. Read your texts. session 5
• Get together with another team.
• With the supervision of your teacher, summarize the other team’s
passage. If necessary, use the techniques employed in Activity 13, Track 43.

CHECKPOINT

15. It is time to check your performance up to this point. In order to do so:
• Read each description carefully.
• Put a tick next to the description that best illustrates your performance in
this practice. Applying and showing reading strategies
I am able to interpret the purpose of many textual components

with a high degree of precision.
Level 4 I am able to use a wide range of reading strategies for a wide

array of texts.
I am able to interpret the purpose of various textual components

Level 3 with a relative degree of precision.
I am able to use a wide range of reading strategies for some texts.

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