Writer's Choice Grade 12

Unit 22: The English Language

Unit Activity Lesson Plan

Introduction
Students have read about the characteristics of the English language. In this lesson, they will summarize the characteristics of language and how languages evolve.

Lesson Description
Students will select a word to fill in each blank line.

Instructional Objectives

  1. Students will be able to identify common universal characteristics of language.
  2. Students will able to describe how the English language fits the universal characteristics of a language.
Student Web Activity Answers
  1. universals
  2. spoken
  3. primitive
  4. sounds
  5. phonemes
  6. nouns
  7. tense
  8. syntax
  9. modifiers
  10. gender
  11. Old English
  12. clipping

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