European Languages

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European Languages

• SS6G11
• The student will describe the cultural
  characteristics of Europe.

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• SS6G11
• a. Explain the diversity of European languages as
  seen in a comparison of German, English, Russian,
  French, and Italian.

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Essential Questions

• Why is it important for countries within Europe
  to have the same languages?
• How does the diversity of languages in Europe
  reflect its unique cultural characteristics?

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Vocabulary

• Diversity-
• Comparison-
• Dialects-

differences (races and cultures)
looking at the similarities and differences of
things
a variation of a language
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German

• German is the official language of ________ and
  ________.
• It is also spoken in Switzerland, eastern part of
  France, Luxembourg, Italy, and parts of Eastern
  Europe.
• Many ________ are spoken in Germany and other
  nations of Europe.

Germany
Austria
dialects
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English

• English is the official language of ____________.
• It is spoken differently from region to region.
• English lends itself to having different
  _____________.
• People in the __________ _________ speak English
  but it sounds different than that spoke in
  Britain.

Britain
accents
United States
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Russian
Russia

• Russian is the official language of __________.
• Russian is known as a ____________ (a branch of
  Indo-European) language.
• It is the largest native language in ___________.
• Russian is also spoken widespread outside of
  Russia.

Slavic
Europe
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French

• Known as a __________ language.
• French is the official language of ___________.
• It is also spoken widely in Belgium and
  Switzerland.

romance
France
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Italian

• Known as a ____________ language.
• Italian is the official of ________.
• It is spoken in Switzerland, also.

romance
Italy
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• What is difficult about different countries
  having different languages?
• Why is it important for countries within Europe
  to have the same languages?
• How does the diversity of languages in Europe
  reflect its unique cultural characteristics?