WorksheetsDidactic Unit 4
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Importance of knowing a foreign language
Communication among people and nations easier
Favours Internal relationships
Respectful attitude towards other people
It is easier to travel
The CEFR advocates teaching a F.L. to the development of:
Pluricultural competence
Plurilingual competence
Social competence
Science competence
The importance of the language depends on the importance of its
Economy
Culture
Society
Population
Colonies from the British empire where English is spoken as a 2nd language
Nigeria
Canada
India
South Africa
Some recent Nobel prizes
Doris Lessing
Luri Lotman
Harold Pinter
Ernest Hemingway
The international character of English and its importance for communications
Language for business
Language for science and technology
Language for transport
Language for telecommunications
Assets of English to become an international language for communication
Cosmopolitan vocabulary
Simplicity of inflections
Natural gender
Neutral gender
What plays a fundamental role on the language?
Culture
Tradition
Customs
Politics
Writers that state that language can’t be separated from its culture
Halliday
Doris Lessing
Luri Lotman
Nadine Gordimer
The role of the teacher is to teach
Only the language
The language and cultural background
The language, the cultural background and traditions
The language, the traditions, the literature, the way of life and cultural back ground
