Communication and Languages

What is communication? Sending or exchanging ___________, ____________, or ____________ by speech, writing or signs.

• gifts, money, gift cards

• thoughts, opinions, information

• languages, history, continents

• Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter

About how many languages are spoken through out the world?

• 200

• 850

• 3200

• 6500

All Romance languages like Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese can trace their roots back to...

• Arabic

• Hebrew

• Greek

• Latin

English is in the ___________________ language family.

• African

• Amerindian

• Indo-European

• Ural-Asiatic

An alphabet is a group of ______________ that represent different ______________.

• pictures; ideas

• letters; sounds

• symbols; sounds

What is an example of non-verbal communication? A....

• STOP sign

• gesture

• command from the teacher

• book of poems

Emojis are an example of a ...

• pictograph

• ideograph

• language

• alphabet

Chinese and Ancient Egyptian don't have alphabets; the symbols are ...

• pictographs

• emojis

• ideographs

• grunts

A continent is a large _____________________ and there are 7 of them on earth.

• body of water

• language family

• colony of people

• land mass

What ocean is between the Americas and Asia?

• Atlantic

• Indian

• Pacific

• Arctic