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Continue Activity 18 below

                           •  Listen to the descriptions on the track and write the part of the
                              presentation they refer to in the spaces below.                           TRACK 44


                                                           Example
                                             Description 1:

                                             Description 2:
                                             Description 3:
                                             Description 4:



                  FOR OUR PRESENTATION


                       19. Look at your notes and decide in which order they will be introduced

                           in the presentation. Look at the example.


                    In Papua New Guinea, more than 800              We should add this comment after
                     hundred languages are spoken. Mexico is        the general information about the
                     sixth on the list of countries with the most   number of languages in existence.
                     linguistic diversity, with 68 groups and 365
                     variants of languages, besides Spanish.



                                                                     This is a different topic, so we
                      Endangered languages are those that will       should put it in third place in the
                      become extinct because children don’t          presentation.
                      learn them.


                                                                    I think we should begin the general
                      Ethnologue is a catalog of the world’s        information component of the
                      languages. It lists 6909 distinct languages.  presentation with this statement.



                                                                    Alright, so this idea can come after
                      Language is a way of thinking, and includes   we have talked about endangered
                      people’s culture, history, myths and music.   languages.




                       When there are many languages, you           I like this idea to end our
                       have many different ways of seeing           presentation It is catchy.
                       the world.

                           •  Do not forget to keep the notes you did not use, because they are useful for

                              answering questions that may arise.




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