Student Activity 1 in groups: Students translate the KQ into target language.

Discussion 1 in groups: What cognitive mechanism-s were used to translate the KQ from English to the target language? For ex: Substitution of words.

Student Activity 2:  Identify at least three arguments to respond to the KQ and enter them onto the Padlet link provided by the teacher.  For ex: 1. Through experiential learning – cooking experiment; 2. Through imitation- watch and do; 3. Through observation, inference and action – listen, deduce, and do. 

Student Activity 3: Out of the three arguments presented in the Padlet, each group chooses one and demonstrates it to the class. For ex: Argument 2: One can think without language if one chooses to imitate an action blindly. Observing a potter at his wheel, one could try and produce a pot. The experience and the resultant pot is “proof of knowledge without the use of language”. Do others agree or disagree? 

Student Activity 1 in groups: Students look first into the case of Esperanto and infer if the coinage of this language is a successful enterprise for the Union European or not. Students read the following articles:

https://www.dw.com/en/esperanto-often-given-up-for-dead-finding-new-popularity/a-3493772 

 

Student Activity 2: Students read the article on the step by step approach to creating a language - https://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Language

Student Activity 3: Students attempt at creating a language that can be spoken universally and create a poster of the alphabets or 20 common words. 

Student Activity 4: Students discuss on two KQs….

1. What would be gained if the whole world spoke one language?

2. What would be lost if the whole world shared one common language?

Student Activity 1 in groups: Students watch a documentary in the target language related to an environmental issue and note down words that influence, persuade or manipulate people. 

Student Activity 2: Students categorize these words.  

Student Activity 3: Students discuss and identify what aspect of the words allow for influencing, persuading and/or manipulating. For ex: The words appeal to our ethics, emotions, logic (Ethos, Pathos, Logos)

Student Activity 4: Students attempt at answering the KQ – Monologues created by each group in the target language. 

Student Activity 1 : Watch the video 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnLHo5orM4k 

Student Activity 2: What is common to most cultures represented in the video?

Student Activity 3: What is common to most cultures in your country? 

Student Activity 4: Students discuss and attempt to answer the KQ: Is there anything that is true for all cultures? How do we know?