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Working with languages TY Student Activity Pack
Activity 5
ENGLISH IS ENOUGH - TRUE OR FALSE?
DESCRIPTION
True or False: How true are these statements?
Find out by searching online
Are you surprised by any of your ondings?
You can ond the right answers below
RESOURCES REQUIRED
Pen. Device for research.
SKILLS LEARNING OUTCOME
You will be recording, organising, summarising and
integrating information using ICT. You will be
developing your research and critical thinking skills.
Statement
True
1
70% of the people in the world speak English as their orst language
2
The EU has 24 oocial languages
3
More people in the world speak German
than Spanish as their native language
4
Over half the people in Ireland can speak a foreign
language nuently (Irish is not a foreign language)
5
Polish is the largest ethnic group in Ireland after the Irish
6
French is an oocial language in 29 states in the world
7
Spanish is the main language in Brazil
8
Mandarin is the largest dialect in Korea
SELF ASSESSMENT: Can-Do Descriptors - tick!
I can: Assess if claims are true or false
by using my knowledge of the world
I can: Conduct research
CHALLENGE!
False
KEY SKILLS
> Thinking critically & creatively
> Developing ICT Skills / Digital Literacy
> Processing Information
HOW MANY OFFICIAL EU L ANGUAGES C AN
YOU NAME IN 3 MINUTES? ANSWERS BELOW!
CHALLENGE: There are currently 24 oocial EU languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French,
German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish
TRUE OR FALSE: 1-False (6.5% of the people in the world speak English as their native language), 2-True, 3-False (over 437 million people are
native Spanish speakers and about 95 million people German native speakers), 4-False (30 % of the Irish people can speak a foreign
language), 5-True, 6-True, 7-False (Portuguese is the main language in Brazil), 8-False (Mandarin is the main dialect in China)
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