Reading and Writing, Pyramids of Giza Vocabulary

abandon   acquire  anticipate  condescending   constitute  diversity  expanding  

 extinction    leads to   neglected   put off

1. Mr. Nate _____________________the class by looking at his phone the entire time and not teaching anything.

2. Some parents _____________________their children and never see them again.

3. Language ________________________is when a language is lost and forgotten.  

4. ELS classes have a lot of ______________________.  There are many nationalities.  

5. I ______________________you will do well on the next quiz.

6. Students come to ELS to ______________________a new language.  

7. Doing too much work _____________________stress.  

8. Wealthy people _______________________about 5% of the city's population.  

9. Hopefully, your vocabulary is __________________________, or getting bigger, in this class.

10. A person interuppting you all of the time is a real ______________________.

11. A _____________________person talks to you like they know more things than you.

1.      Combine = to mix two or more things together as one thing

*The afternoon class combines reading and writing skills. 

*We combined classes to interview the students last month. 

2.  critically = in a very desperate state

*The patient is in critical condition. 

*Some languages are critically endangered. 

3. died out = all of a species or language or whatever is all gone; extinct

*the dinosaurs died out over 65 million years ago. 

4. express = to show something

*a gesture expresses your feelings

*express yourself

5. rate = how much something happens compared to something else

6. roughly = approximately

*the value of the yen is roughly 144 yen for 1 US dollar. 

7. highly = at a great level; at a big level

*It is highly likely that you will do well (you will probably do well)

*I am highly qualified for this position

8. political = related to politics

*There are two major political parties in the USA: democrats and republicans

9. rapidly = very quickly; at a fast rate

*Mr. Nate talks rapidly; Things are rapidly changing

10. perspective = your way of understanding the world

*That’s a very interesting perspective. 

*From my perspective, people don’t have to wear school uniforms. 

*You have a strange perspective on how to teach a class. 

*There was a restaurant that asked you to cook your own food at the restaurant.  To me, that is a crazy perspective because why go out and eat, if you are cooking there. 

 

He is guaranteeing me that he will be here.

 

 

Should We Save Dying Languages?

*They have knowledge about things that are useful

*They are important to save other people’s culture

*Some people say it is a waste of time and money because there are no economic benefits to saving these languages.  While it is true that there is less money to be earned by speaking and knowing a language that few people use, there may be things in that culture that could be eventually economically beneficial.