Arrival - part 1

Louise ___________ a lesson when the alarm went off.

• had

• was having

• have had

The __________ asked her to translate from an audio file.

• colonel

• captain

• president

Before __________ with the aliens, the army gave Louise some shots against bacteria.

• meet

• met

• meeting

How did they call the aliens?

• sevenlegs

• megapods

• heptapods

From the aliens' way of writing, Louise understood that they use ___________, aka logograms.

• letters

• words

• example of letter-based language

• example of word-based language

• example of sentence-based language

If the language we speak shapes how we think, find one difference between Greek and English and guess how it affects the way you think.

The aliens write in a circular way. Let's try it out.

Write 2 words ( 1=English + 2 = Greek) in a circular way, i.e., first the 1st letter, then the last letter, then the 3rd letter, then the 2nd before last, and so on. Write down what happened, how you felt.

From what we have seen so far, what is your opinion about the aliens? How do you feel about them? What do you think will happen next? (at least 50 words)