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FOR OUR PRESENTATION

17. Compose notes to answer the questions you came up with in Activity 6.

You should:
• Keep in mind the summaries that your team and the other team produced

in Activity 14.
• Condense the information from the summaries for your explanation. If you
are unsure of how to do it, look at the notes you took in the previous activity

and in the Take a note section. Look at the example:

QUESTION INFORMATION EXPLANATION

A language is much

Why is it more than a means of Language is a way of
thinking, and includes
important to communication; it is the
Remember keep languages vector of a way of thinking, people’s culture, history,

Two ways of alive? a culture, the depository myths and music.
summarizing are to of a people’s history, its
use synonyms and
to paraphrase (say mythology, its creation
something in your myths, its music...
own words). session 7

18. Read the following components of a presentation and write the name of the
section (opening, development, closure and questions from the audiences)
in the spaces. Look at the example.

We had a question: Were all the
Opening languages spoken in a country spoken

by the same percentage of the
Good afternoon, everyone! We population? Well, we did some research
are team number 3, composed of and we found out that languages were
Paula, Diego and Elena and we are spoken by different percentages of
here today to share some data the population. But we found out about Parts of a presentation. Presentation outlines
about linguistic diversity with you. something called endangered languages.

Well, this is the end of our presentation.
Are there any questions?

In short, when you have What do you mean when you say

many languages, you have that “when a language is alive, the
many different ways of culture and traditions of that language
are alive as well?” Continue this activity on the next page
seeing the world.

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