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    Unit 11

    Exercise 1: Watch the video about American Sign Language. Answer the questions.

    1. The first school for the deaf was established in what year? Where?

    2. Why did Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet travel to England? Why did he travel to France?

    3. The development of sign language was discouraged in the 1880s in favor of what kind of
    learning?

    4. How did deaf students learn to produce speech?

    5. Attitudes towards ASL became positive again after how many years?

    Exercise 2: Read the text. For questions 1-6, choose the correct option (a-d):
    1. Speaking more than one language has an effect on
    a) the part of the brain where language is processed.
    b) the part of the brain which makes decisions.
    c) several parts of the brain equally.
    d) the way all the different parts of the brain are organized.

    2. The studies described in paragraph 2 suggest that, compared to monolingual people,


    bilingual people
    a) recover from a stroke more quickly.
    b) are less likely to suffer from dementia.
    c) have fewer lasting effects from a stroke.
    d) develop less severe forms of dementia.

    3. The theory that people cannot understand a concept if their language has no word for it
    a) has become more widely accepted since 1940.
    b) was superseded by the idea that language changes the way you see the world.
    c) was disproved during the first decade of this century.
    d) was discovered to be true for people whose native language is Greek.

    4. Studies suggest that speakers of different languages


    a) have different levels of skill at reasoning.
    b) all have an equally good sense of direction.
    c) do not all have the ability to categorise objects into groups.
    d) may think about time in different ways.

    5. According to the research described in paragraph 6, bilingual people


    a) describe their own personality differently depending om which language they’are
    speaking.
    b) have a more outgoing personality than monolingual people.
    c) tell stories in a more emotional way than monolingual people.
    d) are better at understanding other people’s feelings in one of their languages than in the
    other.
    6. What is the main point of the text as a whole?
    a) What languages you speak has an effect on how your brain functions.
    b) How many languages you speak is far more significant than what those languages are.
    c) The similarities between speakers of different languages are more significant than the
    differences.
    d) Learning another language is possibly the best way to improve the functioning of your
    brain.

    Exercise 3: Find the verbs below in the text.


    1 – to explore whether something is true (e.g. by asking questions about it)
    2 – to speculate
    3 – to say that something is true without knowing for sure
    4 – to draw attention to something
    5 – to warn
    6 – to cause or encourage somebody to say something

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