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What are the indications for the future of humankind?
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'The World's geological history is trapped in Antarctica.' How is the study of this region useful to us?
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What are Geoff Green's reasons for including high school students in the Students on Ice expedition?
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'Take care of the small things and the big things will take care of themselves.' What is the relevance of this statement in the context of the Antarctic environmeent?
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Why is Antarctica the place to go to, to understand the earth’s present, past and future?
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Notice these expressions in the text. Infer their meaning from the context.
- in great dread of
- counted on
- thumbed at the edges
- in unison
- a great bustle
- reproach ourselves with
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What was Franz expected to be prepared with for school that day?
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What did Franz notice that was unusual about the school that day?
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What had been put up on the bulletin-board?
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What changes did the order from Berlin cause in school that day?
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How did Franz's feelings about M. Hamel and school change?
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The people in this story suddenly realize how precious their language is to them. What shows you this? Why does this happen?
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Franz thinks, “Will they make them sing in German, even the pigeons?” What could this mean?
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“When a people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had the key to their prison.”
Can you think of examples in history where conquered people had their language taken away from them or had a language imposed on them?
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What happens to a linguistic minority in a state? How do you think they can keep their language alive? For example:
Punjabis in Bangalore
Tamilians in Mumbai
Kannadigas in Delhi
Gujaratis in Kolkata
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Is it possible to carry pride in one’s language too far? Do you know what ‘linguistic chauvinism’ means?
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English is a language that contains words from many other languages. This inclusiveness is one of the reasons it is now a world language, for example:-
petite – French
kindergarten – German
capital – Latin
democracy – Greek
bazaar – Hindi
Find out the origin of the following words.
Tycoon, tulip, logo, bandicoot, barbecue, veranda, robot, zero, ski, trek
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Notice the underlined words in these sentences and tick the option that best explains their meanings.
“What a thunderclap these words were to me!”
The words were ___________________ .
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Notice the underlined words in these sentences and tick the option that best explains their meanings.
“When a people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had the key to their prison.”
It is as if they have the key to the prison as long as they _______________ .
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Notice the underlined words in these sentences and tick the option that best explains their meanings.
Don’t go so fast, you will get to your school in plenty of time.
You will get to your school _______________
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