Holding hands and joining hearts 7th grade (26.09.

2016)
Teacher: Mazuch Blanka
School: Colegiul Naional Bnean
Objectives
-to develop interest for culture and civilization
-to expand their knowledge of other countries and languages
-to be aware of the importance of knowing a language
1. Brainstorming At the beginning of the lesson, we started with a brainstorming to see what
European countries the students know. I wrote on the board the following columns: country, flag,
capital, nationality, language, words/ expression in that language, symbols/sights.
2. Quiz the students were divided in groups of 4. They had to answer to questions. The team
with the most correct answers wins. After checking the answers, the teacher discusses them with
the students giving them the explanation for those answers which they did not know.
1. In which of the following countries is German an official language?
Liechtenstein
Switzerland
Austria
Belgium
Luxembourg
2. How many living languages are there estimated in the world?
around 500
around 2000
around 4000
around 6000
3. Which is the most widely spoken language in the world?
Chinese
English
Spanish
Hindi
4. Which of the following languages are written from right to left?
Hebrew
Maltese
Japanese
Arabic
5. Which of the following languages is considered to be the oldest language still used in
Europe?

Galician
Basque
Icelandic
Greek
6. Which of the following languages are considered to be Romance languages?
Luxembourgish
Romanian
Catalan
Sardinian
7. Which is the country with the highest number of languages spoken on its territory?
a. Russia
b. China
c. Germany
d. Norway
8. Sign language is universal. - true or false?
a. true
b. false
9. What is generally considered to be the first form of written language?
a. Cuneiform script
b. Egyptian hieroglyphs
c. Cyrillic alphabet
d. Phoenician script
(sursa: http://archive.ecml.at/quiz/default_e.html)
3. project work each students had to pick a country and to make a project including the
information discussed at the beginning (flag, nationality, language, capital etc). They could also
include information about population and about the sights or symbols of that country.