Teach a great lesson suitable for ESL, ELL, and all students, conforms with Common Core State Standard 4b-d Grade 6-8 Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: “b. Use common Greek or Latin Affixes or roots as clues to a meaning of a word. c. Consult reference materials both print and digital to determine the meaning of a word or determine or clarify its meaning or its part of speech. d. Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word by checking the meaning in context or dictionary. Students will enjoy playing the “Country/Language Game” together. Have fun learning!
 
 
English Language Arts Lesson: Let’s talk about languages and their origins.
Teacher’s Script
 
In this lesson, the teacher will follow the slide prompts (You tube: Tara Teach Live English Language Arts), discussing each slide with the student while demonstrating with hand gestures (or sign language, as appropriate) including how to form the words with the mouth and lips.
 
Teacher will:
 

1. Read statements on the slide
2. Prompt and help the student read the statements
3. Allow the student to read the statements without assistance

 
The lesson can be done over and over until the student is confident and able to read the statements without assistance. Student will become familiar with geography, languages of the world, understand the origin of many words in English (Latin) and understand how English is used the world over as a language for trade.

 
Follow this script as the Teacher, using the video slides. Each slide is up for 10 seconds, plenty of time to pause and discuss with the student. Please point and use gestures (and/or sign language) as much as possible. If you have props (movable statues of people or horses, planes, cars, ships or trains) they can also be used. Demonstrations can be done on sketchpads, ipads, chalkboards or any other available useful tool.
 
Slide 1:
 
Let’s talk about language!
 
Here is the word “Let’s” that means “together we will”. Together we will talk about language. “Let’s” is a combination of two words “Let” and “us” you can see we have taken out the space and the letter “u” and replaced them with ‘. Let’s sounds like “Lettuce” but its not at all the same meaning!
 
 
Slide 2 0:10:
 
Here are some words we will talk about in our lesson.
 
Language. Let’s divide this word into parts and pronounce each part. First, I will say it, then you say it. (Do so.) Language comes from Latin meaning “tongue” or “speak”. (Use hand gestures to describe talking.)
 
Origin: Let’s divide this word into parts and pronounce each part. First, I will say it, then you say it. (Do so.) Remember that the “g” sounds like a “j”. Origin comes from Latin meaning “to be born”. (Use hand gestures to describe something being born such as a plant growing from the ground.) It also means to arise, like waking up in the morning. (use gestures).
 
Slide 3, 0:20:
 
Latin is an ancient language that originated in Rome, Italy more than 2,000 years ago.
 
Let’s talk about this sentence. Ancient, say it, please. Good. Ancient means it is very, very VERY old!
 
Originated, let’s break this word down into parts: ori gin a ted, originated. Now, you do it. Good. What do you think this means? It means, where you come from. Let’s make a sentence. My family originated in___________.” Now you do it. Good.
 
Latin is an ancient language that originated in Rome, Italy more than 2,000 years ago.
 
Let’s look at this world map and see where is Italy. Here it is – right here and we can see, here is the city of Rome.
 
Latin is an ancient language that originated in Rome, Italy more than 2,000 years ago.
 
When was it? Well it was a long time ago because it is an ancient language. 2,000 years ago, That word, “ago” means in the past.
 
Latin is an ancient language that originated in Rome, Italy more than 2,000 years ago.
 
You say it, please. Very good! Please say it again. Excellent!
 
Slide 4, 0:30
 
In English, we say “an ancient language”. Why do we say “An ancient language” and not “a ancient language”. It is because of a special rule in English. When the next word begins with a vowel, you use “an”. If not, you use “a”. Do you remember the vowels in English? A, E, I, O, U – that’s right, very good. So here are some examples. (read examples from the slide). Here are also some examples of how to use “a”. Together’, let’s think of a time when we use “an”. Can you think of a tme when we would use “an”? Very good!
 
 
Slide 5, 0:40
 
When people trade, they use language. Let’s talk about that. People travel by water, land, or by air. In ancient times, people used ships, camel or horses. In modern times we also use airplanes and cars.
 
Slide 6, 0:50
 
Trade means to exchange something and when we exchange something we are trading.
 
When people trade, they usually talk and that’s how language develops. Let’s talk about these words.
 
(Read the origin of the word “exchange: Latin ex – out of and change” to the student from the slide. Have the student say it aloud. Discuss the picture, use gestures and hand motions and/or sign language to communicate, too.)
 
(Read the origin of the word “trade: Latin: a route, a way” to the student from the slide. Have the student say it aloud. Discuss the picture, use gestures and hand motions and/or sign language to communicate, too.
 
Slide 7, 1:00
 
Now let’s learn more about languages and their origins by playing a game!
 
Slide 8, 1:10
 
Languages originated and traveled around the world with trade and exchange between people.
 
In ancient times, people uses horses or camels or ships to travel far distances.
 
Discuss the ways people traveled in ancient times with the student/s.
 
Slide 9, 1:20
 
These ways, roads or routes are called “trade routes”. It could be a road for horses, camels or cars, or a way that the ships travel. Airplanes also have routes that we use today.
 
Here is a country, Argentina. What language do they speak in Argentina? That’s right, Spanish. Why do they speak Spanish? Because sailors came to Argentina to trade, by ship and brought their language, that’s why.
 
Language travels when people travel.
 
Slide 10, 1:30
 
Here are some of the languages of the world. You can see that all of these languages in the red color use many words that come from Latin. You can see that the Roman people, who spoke Latin brought their language to the countries of Spain, and France. Spain and France brought their languages to countries all over the world.
 
German is spoken in Germany but there are many countries that speak languages that are similar to German.
 
This is also true of Russian. People speak Russian in Russian but there are many nearby countries that speak languages that have many similar words and sounds.
 
Language travels when people travel.
 
Did you know there are more than 6,000 languages in the world?
 
Slide 11, 1:40
 
Let’s practice! (Work with the student to point out countries and discuss languages that are spoken there. Some countries and languages are included here and the list can be extended, discussing anywhere in the world, what languages are spoken there.)
 
Argentina             Spanish
Russia                        Russian
China                        Chinese
France                        French
Germany            German
Saudi Arabia            Arabic
Mexico            Spanish
Canada            French and English
USA                  English and Spanish, Native American languages
India                        Hindi and English
Kenya                        Swahili
Australia            English and native languages
Brazil                         Portuguese
Japan                        Japanese
 
Language travels when people travel.
 
 
Remaining Slides & Review
 
Working with the student until he or she can do it all alone, help the student to recognize the names of countries and memorize the language(s) that are spoken in those countries.
 
Start simple, with 14 or 15 countries and languages and always include the country of the student’s origin as the first and most important country to begin the discussion. Student should play the country/languages game weekly or more often until he or she can easily look at a world map and recognize the countries and know their languages.
 
Teacher should be free to help the student by discussing any country of the world especially when the student is interested. Use photographs of cultural dress and hear samples of the spoken language.
 
Independent Assignment
 
Student may write a report or make a visual presentation about any country and the languages that are spoken there.
 
Student is able to explain why we are studying English and how it is a language of trade used all over the world.
 
 
About this video: Here are the visuals for the lesson “Let’s Talk About Language: Language Origins.” From Tara Teaches Live. You can follow the lesson Plan and teach a great lesson suitable for ESL, ELL, and all students, conforms with Common Core State Standard 4b-d Grade 6-8 Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: “b. Use common Greek or Latin Affixes or roots as clues to a meaning of a word. c. Consult reference materials both print and digital to determine the meaning of a word or determine or clarify its meaning or its part of speech. d. Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word by checking the meaning in context or dictionary. Each slide is 10 seconds, giving you plenty of time to pause and discuss. Your student may open up his own page to point on the map or you may use a pointer. Play the “Country/Language Game” together. Have fun learning!
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