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! Y A D S E G A U G N LA How many languages can you speak?
here are T ! y a D s e g rld Langua o W language? ’s it a y is r t a a u r h b w t of Fe world, but e h t ur mouth* On the 21s o in e s s e u g a e u w g do 7,000 lan icate*! So n u m m more than o c nguages! la le t p n o e e r p e w iff e is ho ds three d n fi A languag ! uages? No g n la e h t ll for a CLICK: So, how many computer Brittany
Margot
Shannon
programming languages are there? Margot: There are over 200 programming languages!
Audrey
CLICK: Wow! How many programming languages can you speak? Margot: I can speak eight languages! Brittany: I can speak HTML, Java and CSS.1
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CLICK: Why do you code? Audrey: Because you can do anything … I make video games!
LANGUAGE 1: CODE CAN YOU CODE?
CLICK speaks to Audrey, Brittney, Margot, and Shannon from GIRLS WHO CODE to learn more about code and how we speak to computers! CLICK: What is code? Shannon: Code is talking to a piece of technology … to code means to write instructions for a computer … you put your ideas onto the computer using a computer programming language!
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CLICK: Can we learn to code? Audrey: Yes! It’s not very difficult! … Sign up for computer science classes at school … or look online!
COMMENT
Can you code? What do you want to make with code? www.mg-plus.net/click3 Adapted from YouTube series My Code by GirlsWhoCode. www.youtube.com/user/GirlsWhoCode 1
The names of computer programming languages
TECH SPECIAL!
LANGUAGE 2: EMOJI
CAN YOU SPEAK EMOJI? There are 2,600 emojis! People use 60 million emojis on Facebook every day! The world’s favourite emoji is ‘tears of joy’.
MATCH IT!
WORLD DAY
LANGUAGE 3: SIGN LANGUAGE
CAN YOU SPEAK SIGN LANGUAGE? Sometimes deaf* people speak or ‘sign’ with their hands. Every country has a different sign language! This is how you spell THURSDAY in British Sign Language:
T
H
U
R
S
D
A
Y
Draw a line to the correct emoji:
1. I love it!
a.
2. It’s terrible!
b.
3. Hello / Goodbye!
c.
SPELL IT!
LTURE U C K C I L C
Languages
• There are 250,000 words in the English language! • 50% of the world is bilingual* – they can speak more than one language!
English French Italian German to communicate communiquer comunicare kommunizieren mouth bouche bocca Mund bilingual bilingue bilingue zweisprachig deaf sourd sordo gehörlos
1.
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2.
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3.
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YOU!
Can you use sign language to spell this word?
• Dogs speak different languages! In English a dog says “woof woof” woof! but in Japan it says “wan wan”! ✱ WORDWISE
What word is it?
Write it here:
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Dutch communiceren mond tweetalig doof
The answers are on page 15
Spanish comunicar la boca bilingüe sordo/a
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LISTEN Track 10:
Listen to students talk about languages. www.mg-plus.net/audio
