New Treasure 3 Lesson8

We call our own native language ...

• Pidgin language

• Broken English

• Mother tongue

The word "pidgin" was first invented by ...

• Chinese workers

• Japanese workers

• Hawaiian people

Many foreign people came to Hawaii ...

• to teach Standard English to Hawaiian people

• to work on farms and sugar plantation

• to go surfing

Hawaiian Pidgin consists of ...

• English

  +

  the characters of foreign languages

• English

  +

  loanwords and structures from foreign languages

• Japanese

  +

  the characters of foreign languages

• Japanese

  +

  loanwords and structures from foreign languages

If you want to say "I ate" in Hawaiian Pidgin, you should say ...

• I eat wen

• I ate wen

• I wen eat

• I wen ate

The word "Bunbai" means "soon" in ...

• English

• Portugues

• Filipino

• Chinese

Hawaiian pidgin was seen as a "working class" language because ...

• pidgin speakers didn't go to school at all

• pidgin speakers worked very hard everyday

• pidgin speakers couldn't read or write

Today Hawaiian pidgin is taught in schools because ...

• it is easier to teach in Hawaiin pidgin

• they now understand that there are a variety of spoken English

• some students cannot read or write Standard English