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• If they cannot mark the texts home portfolio about help stores es upport
they read, suggest usingother
strategies such as skimming What is an Endangered Language?
the text and listing the words. home What does it mean to say a language is endangered?
An endangered language is one that is likely to become
• Provide other models besides comment extinct in the near future. Many other languages are no
the ones in the book to help longer being learned by new generations of children or by
your students create their tags new adult speakers; these languages will become extinct
when their last speaker dies. In fact, dozens of languages
own links. today have only one native speaker still living, and that
person's death will mean the extinction of the language. It
mAIL will no longer be spoken, or known, by anyone.
Source: Lingüistic Society of America: http://goo.gl/wAo9x2
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When I look at the word
endangered, I remember
Look, language, speakers, that I once read about
extinction and death are words endangered plants and the
that appear many times. I think article mentioned that some
the text might be about when plants were disappearing, so
people stop speaking a language I agree with you. The text is
and then the language dies. probably about languages that
may stop being spoken.

Remember
Similar words may
not be exactly
the same, but
they may have a
related meaning
(for example, die
and extinct) and
have beginnings
that look alike
(speaker/spoken;
die/death, extinct/
extinction).
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156 Teacher’s Book / Practice 9