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que están leyendo, sugiérales
usar otras estrategias, tales What is an Endangered Language?
como examinar el texto home What does it mean to say a language is endangered?
An endangered language is one that is likely to become
y hacer una lista de las comment extinct in the near future. Many other languages are no
palabras. longer being learned by new generations of children or by
• Proporcione otros modelos, tags new adult speakers; these languages will become extinct
when their last speaker dies. In fact, dozens of languages
además de los que se today have only one native speaker still living, and that
mencionan en el libro para mAIL person's death will mean the extinction of the language. It
will no longer be spoken, or known, by anyone.
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When I look at the word
endangered, I remember
Look, language, speakers, that I once read about
extinction and death are words endangered plants and the
that appear many times. I think article mentioned that some
the text might be about when plants were disappearing, so
people stop speaking a language I agree with you. The text is
and then the language dies. probably about languages that
may stop being spoken.

Remember
Similar words may
not be exactly
the same, but
they may have a
related meaning
(for example, die
and extinct) and
have beginnings
that look alike
(speaker/spoken;
die/death, extinct/
extinction).
152 Studentʼs Book / Practice 9

156 Teacher’s Book / Practice 9