Vocab
Current Event (Suni Lee)
Distribution of Languages
English Language
Overall Review
100

A language decided by government to be used nationally in that country. 

What is official language? 

100

Sunisa Lee's cultural identity.

What is Hmong?

100

Name two major language branches we discussed in the lesson.

What is Western Germanic, Romance, Indo-Iranian, or Balto-Slavic?

100

What is the official language of a majority of U.S. states?

What is English?

100

What were the two key issues we covered?

(hint: 1, 2, 3 or 4)

What is key issue 1 and key issue 2?

200

A language that hasn't quite gained popularity, but is spoken AND written

What is developing language?

200

What was Suni Lee's highest value medal won at the olympics? 

(hint: bronze, silver, gold, none)

What is gold?

200

Say hello in three different languages. 

Go ahead. We are listening :)

200

Does every English speaker use the same dialect?

What is no?

200

Name 2 languages in the Romance Branch.

What is Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Romanian?

300

A language that is written AND spoken. must be both!

What is literary tradition?

300

True or False? Suni Lee grew up with Hmong speakers in her household.

What is true?

300

Name the two languages most present in the United States.

What is English and Spanish?

300

What language branch did the English Language come from?

What is Western Germanic Branch?

300

True or False? 

Migrants did not affect the spread in language. 

What is false?

400

Name the three parts of organizing language origins. (hint: nature)

What is language FAMILY, language BRANCH, and language GROUP?

400

Is the use of the Hmong language increasing or decreasing among young people?

What is decreasing?

400
By what century was the U.S. the main spreader of the English language?

(hint: colonizing)

What is the end of the 19th century or beginning of the 20th century?

400
Choose someone from the other team to "battle" in a British accent challenge. Whichever opponent can give the best greeting wins the points. 

We will choose a winner :)

400

True or False? 

Institutional language is an example of a folk culture language.

What is false?

500

What images are a language GROUP usually represented by?

(hint: language tree)

What is a group of leaves?

500

Bonus: (take a guess)

True or False? Hmong people have never had their own country.

What is true?

500

Name a factor that influenced the way language was diffused.

(hint: think about historical events)

 What is colonizing, trade, immigrants, etc.?

500

Name the three English language combos. 

Bonus point if you can name each language inolved.

What is Franglais, Spanglish, and Denglish?

Bonus: French, Spanish, German (Deutsch)

500

What country is responsible for the rapid diffusion of the English language to the United States? 

What is Great Britain, the UK, etc.?