Background- informatlon about language family anquage tree Language tree. 2 Germanic -languages Indo-European anquaaes
Background information about language family Language tree 1 Language tree 2 Germanic languages Indo-European languages
Reading. I
Reading I
Passage analysis 其Stye: exposition t Theme: Every language is part of a specific linguistic family, which in turn is part of a larger linguistic family
Passage analysis Style: exposition Theme: Every language is part of a specific linguistic family, which in turn is part of a larger linguistic family
Passage analysis t Organization part I: Theme part II: Modern language is related to other -: languages in many aspects. part III: Despite the fact shown in part Il, native".' speakers of English find it hard to learn the other languages. part IV: What cause the languages within a single language family to become different from one another and what account for the development within a particular language
Passage analysis Organization: part I: Theme part II: Modern language is related to other languages in many aspects. part III: Despite the fact shown in part II, native speakers of English find it hard to learn the other languages. part IV: What cause the languages within a single language family to become different from one another and what account for the development within a particular language
Group discussion about the text t Why does the author compare a language with a living organism? t Which language family does English belong to t What is it that causes the languages within a single language family to become different from one another? Does this happen: to:one particular.anguage in different: periods of time, too?
Group discussion about the text. Why does the author compare a language with a living organism? Which language family does English belong to? What is it that causes the languages within a single language family to become different from one another? Does this happen to one particular language in different periods of time, too?