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Why Learning a Foreign Language?Watch the following videos made for high school students why foreign language learning is meaningful to them. The last one is a brief answer for why FL by the President of Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Why learning a foreign language Part 1
Why learning a foreign language Part 2
Why learning a foreign language Part 3
Why learning a foreign language Part 4
Why Study Languages? By Thunderbird
Q 1. Read the following statements and mark True or false. (1) English is spoken appropriately 6 % or less as a primary language, and it is believe that 4/5 of population do not speak English. [True / False ] (2) Many American high school students graduate from high school without learning a foreign language. [True / False ] (3) Foreign language learning does not help increase academic achievement; however, it helps increase flexibility, creativity, and higher order thinking skills such as problem solving. [True / False ] (4) Foreign Language learning is not wasting time because language learning allows people to create a global mind-set [True / False ] Q 2. These are 10 reasons why you need to learn foreign languages by two characters in the video #1 - #5. Your task is to put the following 10 reasons in the order in which they appeared in the videos. To communicate with people in their languages
OPTIONAL: Career and foreign language learningLet's search the most fascinating career using foreign language skills. One say that we do not have to learn the foreign language. Your task is to argue necessity of learning of foreign language from career perspectives. This is an optional activity, but you may find this helpful.
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