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WorksheetsTOPIC 4
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
1. Why is necessary and important to teach culture when teaching a foreign language? Give some reasons.
Culture and language are not separable: languages both reflect the culture of the speakers and help to construct their culture
LOMCE states that we should teach not only language, but also culture, in order to be respectful and tolerant.
The Decree 82/2014 talks about the importance of teaching culture when teaching a language. the reason for this is to understand our own culture and language in a better way.
All the answers are correct
2. What is a language barrier?
A wall
A border
The lack of knowledge of a foreign language seen as an impediment to progress
A foreign language
3. Explain some ways of getting around the language barrier.
Skimming and scanning
Travelling by plane
Develop a kind of map in which you can establish where to go and where not to go
Develop and auxiliary language, increase the number of translating services, spread an existing language that everyone will understand, provide increased motivation and opportunities to learn foreign languages...
4. Explain what communicative competence is.
Utter grammatically correct forms
Know where and when to use a lighter
what Chomsky thought
A concept introduced by Hymes, who stated that in order to learn a language , a native speaker does not only utter grammatically correct forms, he/she also has to know where and when to use a sentence, and to whom
5. Name its four main aspects.
Systematic potential, Appropiacy, Listening and Writing
Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
Systematic potential, Appropiacy, Occurrence, Feasibility
North, South, East and West
6. What does the concept of lingua franca consist of?
It is the most spoken language all over the world
It is the language in which nations carry out their economics, political, technological, academic and cultural transactions
It is the language spoken in France
It is the most common language studied all over the educational systems
7. Why is English considered as a lingua franca nowadays?
Because of History (legacy of British and American imperialism)
Because of political and economical reasons
Because of international tourism, and academic, technological and scientific information and publications
Because is the main language of music, broadcasting, computer, videogames, etc.
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8. What’s standard English?
A lingua franca
A model language to be taught both at national and international level.
A variety of English spoken in America
A language studied following LOMCE learning standards
9. Define culture.
A goal in every language teaching
A whole of knowledge, lifestyles and customs of a concrete society in a historical moment
History and Arts
The ability to where and when to use a sentence, and to whom when reading books
10. What is cultural awareness?
A result of applying the concept of culture into a teaching-learning context.
A process of comparison or contrasting of languages
A help to interpret and understand other cultures
1 and 3 are correct
11. Name some approaches to develop cultural awareness.
Teaching culture as an interpersonal process, scanning, skimming and reading books.
Establishing a sphere of interculturality, teaching culture as an interpersonal process, teaching culture as difference and cross-disciplinary boundaries
Listening, Reading, Writing and speaking in a standard English
TPR, oral production, reading comprehension, top-down strategies
12. Which are the main goals we want to achieve when teaching culture?
To develop curiosity and respect
To develop the so called communicative competence
To develop curiosity and respect towards the target culture and their own, to be aware of conventional behaviour, to develop and understanding that social variables influence the ways in which people speak and behave, to increase awareness of cultural connotations of linguistic elementsin the target language, to avoid stereotypes in the target language, to encourage empathy
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13. Some procedures to develop cultural awareness in Primary pupils.
working with authentic materials
practicing appropiate social conventions
solving cultural problems in specific situations
providing pupils with opportunities to use verbal and non-verbal communication
All the answers are procedures to develop cultural awareness in Primary pupils.
