2 Read the text again and complete the notes.

Lesson 2:  Tell students to re-read the text and look for the
Teach yourself Tok Pisin! information they need to complete the notes.
 Check as a class.
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LESSON OBJECTIVES
Country: Papua New Guinea
Reading: Reading about languages
Capital: Port Moresby
Speaking: Discussing one’s abilities to speak Population: just over 7 million
languages Official languages: Tok Pisin, English, Hiri Motu
Listening: Listening and practising expressions Total number of languages: about 800
in an unknown language Languages used in education: Tok Pisin, English
Writing: Completing a summary; answering
questions; joining sentences 3 Answer these questions.
Critical thinking: Predicting; developing  Focus on the questions. Tell students to read the
awareness of linguistic differences; interpreting text again and answer them.
and making deductions  You may tell them to compare their answers
Language focus: Conjunctions: although, while, with a partner before discussing them as a class.
whereas Critical thinking: Tell students that they may not
Vocabulary: eastern, population, independent, find the exact answers in the text. Encourage them to
isolated, communities, develop, official reflect on what they have read and make deductions,
language, percentage, English-based, creole, especially when answering Questions 1 and 3.
pidgin
Materials: Coursebook, Workbook, audio device, Answers
one copy of Photocopiable activity 1 for each (Example answers)
student 1 Because most communities there are isolated and
have little contact with each other or with the outside
world.
Starter 2 It’s a creole language spoken by most people in
 Remind students of the languages they talked Papua New Guinea.
about in Lesson 1. Review what languages are 3 Your first language is your native language; an
spoken in different countries. official language is the language used by the

government and in business.
Students look at the map and locate Papua New
Guinea. Then they explain where it is, using the
expressions indicated.
 Ask them what languages they think are spoken Use of English: although, while
there. Encourage them to justify their opinions.
and whereas
Reading 4 Join these sentences using the conjunctions
in bold.
1 Read the text. What is the most surprising fact  Read and discuss the Use of English box
about Papua New Guinea?
with the class. Give more examples.
 Tell the class to read the text about Papua New
Display on the board and ask the class to
Guinea. Tell them to ignore any unknown words copy them into their notebooks.
at this point.  Ask students to supply more examples of
 When they have finished, ask them what they
their own and write them in their
think the most surprising fact is. notebooks.
 Discuss as a class.  Tell students to read and join the
sentences.
 When they have finished, you may ask
them to compare their answers with a
partner before checking them as a class.

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Answers in the new language to their family. They can ask
1 Although my dad only spent a month in Australia, family members if they know any words in a foreign
he learned a lot of English when he was there. language or dialect. They can copy the words in their
2 Although Geography is his favourite subject, he notebooks and then teach the words to the class.
didn’t know where Papua New Guinea was.
3 Although she speaks really good English, she’s never Workbook
been to an English-speaking country.
1 These are the numbers 1 to 10 in Tok Pisin. Write
4 Although I didn’t do much revision, I got good
marks in the test.
the English translation next to each number.
 Students work out the translation of the
5 Some people are good at languages, while/whereas
others find it very difficult to learn another language. numbers into English.
6 I prefer reading and writing, while/whereas my  You may consider asking them to work in pairs.
friend likes speaking and working in groups.  Check as a class.
7 English is quite easy to learn in the early stages,
while/whereas French is quite difficult. Answers
8 Russian uses the Cyrillic alphabet, while/whereas et, eight faiv, five foa, four nain, nine seven, seven
Polish uses the Roman alphabet. sikis, six ten, ten tri, three tu, two wan, one

Listening 2 Complete the crossword.

 Students read the clues and do the crossword.
5 Work with a partner. How good are you at
 Check as a class.
learning a new language? Listen and practise the
expressions in Tok Pisin.
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 Tell students they are going to work with a
Across 2 creole 6 Polish 9 Australia 10 Latin
partner and find out how good they are at
12 alphabet 14 Cantonese
learning a new language.
Down 1 bilingual 3 official 4 capital 5 vocabulary
 Then tell them to listen to the audio recording.
7 population 8 native 11 New 13 Hindi
 Play the audio once for students to familiarise
themselves with the content. Play it a second
3 Rewrite the sentences using although.
time, pausing after each exchange.
 They practise the expressions in Tok Pisin and  Students rewrite the sentences.

judge how good their pronunciation is.  Tell them to refer back to the Use of English box

 Tell the class to work in pairs. They take 30 in the Coursebook for help.
seconds to try to memorise the phrases. Then  Check as a class.
they test each other to find how much they can
remember. Answers
Audioscript 1 Although I speak English quite well, I find English
spelling hard.
A: Hello. (formal)
2 Although the islands of Trinidad and Tobago are
B: Gude.
very close to Venezuela, English is spoken there, not
A: Hello. (informal) Spanish.
B: Hai. 3 Although Welsh settlers first went to Patagonia in
A: What is your name? 1865, Welsh is still quite widely spoken in this part of
B: Husat nem bilong yu? Argentina today.
A: My name is … 4 Although Chinese is an important world language,
B: Nem bilong me emi … not many schools in Britain teach it.
A: Please. 5 Although Shakespeare probably never left England,
B: Plis. several of his plays are set in other countries.
A: Thank you
B: Tenkyu.
A: Excuse me.
B: Skius.
A: Goodbye.
B: Gutbai.

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4 Match the contrasting ideas and then join them in
a sentence with whereas/while.
Additional support and practice
 Students read and match the contrasting ideas.
 Complete Photocopiable activity 1.
 Then, they join them.
 Tell them to refer back to the Use of English box
Extend and challenge
in the Coursebook for help.  Tell the class to work in pairs or small groups.
 Check as a class.
Ask them to search the Internet and find more
information about creole languages, countries
where they are spoken (e.g. Jamaica), variants
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of English-based creole languages and
1 In Britain, the winter months are December, January
examples of words and phrases.
and February, whereas in South Africa winter is from
May to July.  They could then prepare a short report and
2 I’m good at languages, whereas/while my brother’s present it to the class.
best subjects are Science and Maths.
3 In Argentina, Spanish is spoken, whereas/while
Portuguese is the language of Brazil.
4 Very few British people speak Dutch, whereas/while
most Dutch people speak English.
5 In Japan, the school year starts in April,
whereas/while in Australia students start school in
January.

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