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E. Listen to a short audio from a Navajo in Arizona. He speaks about his language, Athabascan. What information did you manage to get about that language?

8. The Hawaiian Language

A. Words

Make sure you know the following words: aloha1

mahalo backwards garland indication to revive royalty

Put the words above into the proper blanks, so that the two sentences are roughly synonymous.

1 Everyone in the US knows the word aloha. Many, but not all, will know mahalo.

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Lei - __________________________________________

Okina - ________________________________________

Kapiolani - _____________________________________

Aloha - _______________________________________

Mahalo - ______________________________________

Pau - _________________________________________

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C. According to the speaker, what was the situation with the Hawaiian language in 1778? Before 1970s? Nowadays?

9. Linguistic Profiling

A. Words

framework

salient

virtually

B. Listen to a part of the interview and write in the missing words.

What‘s (1) ___________ in terms of the English language is always

(2) ___________ to be taught in some sort of (3) ___________

framework. So for example, where (4) ___________ there no dialect of English? The Midwest (5) ___________ has a dialect. It may not be as (6) ___________ as Southern dialect, but it‘s still dialect. So it‘s actually, (7) ___________ most learners of English as a second language (8) ___________ aware of this, it‘s (9) ___________

impossible to learn English without learning (10) ___________

dialect of English.

C. Now listen to the complete interview and answer the questions.

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B. In the little town of Artesia, California, there are many languages. According to the narrator, at a prayer breakfast, blessings were offered in nine languages. Listen to the short take and write down the nine languages that are mentioned.

C. Listen to another part of the interview and complete the text.

Artesia (1) __________ Sally Flowers (2) __________ the state of the city address at this breakfast in English, though she also speaks Spanish. She (3) __________ she wanted the (4) __________ to represent the many (5) __________ communities and reflect the cultural diversity in this city of (6) __________ people.

SALLY FLOWERS: ―Governor Gray Davis when he was in office had said that (7) __________ was the most (8) __________

city in the world, and (9) __________ L.A. County, Artesia is one of the most (10) __________ cities within.‖

D. Listen to the interview and complete the information chart about the following people.

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almost (1) __________ since the last national population count in (2)

__________. More than (3) __________ Latinos live in the United States. That is (4) __________ percent of the population.

C. Listen to the article and mark the following statements as true or false.

- The first study showed that Hispanics teenagers are more likely to attend schools with the most clever students, the most lowincome students or the fewest teachers.

- Large schools are linked to low student performance and higher dropout rates.

- The second report says that eighteen percent of the nation’s teenagers are foreign-born.

- Foreign-born teens make up twenty-five percent of those who never finish high school.

-Nearly forty percent of foreign-born teens finished their educations before they came to the United States.

-The third report shows more and more young Hispanics in the United States are going to college.

12. Connecting Cultures On the Internet

A. Words

Make sure you know the following words from the article.

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to digitize obligation private sector public domain salutary undertaking

Put the words into the proper blanks below, so that the two sentences are roughly synonymous.

1.It is no longer protected by copyright. This art or work is in the

____________.

2.It‘s our duty to use new technology. It‘s our ____________.

3.They want technology to benefit people. Technology should have a

____________ effect.

4.They are not part of the government. They are from the

____________.

5.They‘ll convert it to digital media. They will ____________ the

painting.

6. The free library is a useful endeavor. The library is a useful

____________.

B. Listen to the three sentences from the text ―Connecting Cultures on the Internet.‖ The beginnings of these sentences are written below. Complete each sentence in writing.

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1. The U.S. Library of Congress recently launched an initiative to create a …

2. Over the past decade, the library has digitized more than 10 million items for the American Memory Project…

3. A second project begun in 2000, the Global Gateway, is…

C. Listen to the text and decide which project – a World Digital Library, Global Voices or International Satellite Channels - contributes more to culture connections. Prove your position.

13. Chinatowns in the U.S.A.

A. In the following text the second half of every word is missing. Try to reconstruct it.

Many lar__ __ cities i__ the Uni__ __ __ States an__ around th__ world ha__ __ an eth__ __ __ area cal__ __ __ Chinatown. Each wa__ settled b__ people wh__ came fr__ __ China.

For exam__ __ __, Chinatown i__ San Francisco, Calif__ __

__ __ __, began i__ the eighteen-fo__ __ __ __ __. Gold ha__ been disco__ __ __ __ __ in California. Chin__ __ __ immigrants ca__ __

to Amer__ __ __ in sea__ __ __ of wea__ __ __. They sett__ __ __

in a__ area th__ __ later bec__ __ __ known a__ Chinatown. Nea__

__ __ all th__ immigrants we__ __ men. The__ __ hard wo__ __ was quic__ __ __ recognized. I__ eighteen-fifty, Sa__ Francisco May__ __ John Geary he__ __ a cere__ __ __ __ honoring Chin__ __ __

efforts t__ improve th__ city. Tod__ __, Chinatown i__ a lead__ __

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