Mindmap activity

Tower of babel activity (web page)

1. What does the image, and the story, suggest about the benefits of everyone speaking the same language? What are the drawbacks?

2. What does the story suggest about the social functions of language?

 

 

ANSWERS:

 

1. They would be able to share ideas easily and build a large civiliation, as being organized. But they may have a loose of identity

 

2.That the languaje lets us communicate, not just socially, but it helps up to organize us as a group of people.

The tower of babel activity (book)

The story of the Tower of Babel

"And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." (Genesis 11:5-6)

1. What does the biblical story of the tower of babel shows?

2. What does historical evidence tells us of this biblical event?

3. Wich is the relationship between genes and languaje?

4. Why languaje constantly changes?

ANSWERS:

 1. It shows how languaje is created, showed human ambition and god punished them because he hated that ambition from humans part.

2. Humans started to spread, so the humans and the languaje

3. Genes are transmitted by blood, languaje is transmitted by culture and people around

4. New generations change it socially, when they speak with friends and equals (partners, friends)

video nº2 History of languaje

1. Why is it said that people in East Africa developed more than the rest?

2. What happened to the earlier languages on Earth?

3. According to Dr Johanna Nichols, what were the first utterances made by Humans?

 

ASWERS:

1. Because their languaje developed more

2. Have been lost and no longer exist

3. Started to call other humans

video activity

QUESTIONS:

1. Which is the 'trick' (process) that enables us to communicate something to others?

2. Do animals talk? If not, What do they do to communicate?

3. What do we express when we talk?

4. WHat did Dr Deb Roy try to achieve in his house?

5. Which are the earliest stages in language for a child?

6. What external and internal factors made the data recollected in the experiment into something they could use?

7. How did the parent's speech change from their son's first word until he could utter more complex structures?

8. What does Dr Deb Roy compare the "blossoming" of a speech form?

ANSWERS:
1. Is a sequence of noises, that other people of the same culture, and that speak the same language are able to understand.

2. They make sounds that for them, has meaning, but we can´t understand.

3. We express emotions, feelings and needings.

4. Understand how did the process of learning to talk went from the very begining.

5. In a first instance, they do bobbling, just testing sounds. Then, a more advanced stage, they are able to pronounce single words. After this, they can make short fraces, like to ask something: "more milk", "stop that", "hug me"... Finally, babies are able to pronounce and formulate more complex sentences.

6. The circunstances in wich the baby said the words.

7. They started to comunnicate more and interact more with him, and the son could get more "information" and see more examples of words.

8. With the growth of a plant.

Reason of this Blog

My School, "The Mackay School" asked me to make a blog, to upload my homeworks here, and to do the post i'm doing now.
I really think that this is a really good idea, because it makes the students get closer to what the internet is and is a very interactive way of sharing information.