Step 1: Lead
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in
1.
How
do
people
communicate
in
our
daily
life?
(spoken/written
language,
emoticons,
hand
gestures, facial expressions, posture, eye contact and so on)
Do you know the following Chinese
characters?
How is the language developed?
2. Do you know the meaning of the following sentences?
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Sotlice on tam dagum w?s geworden gebod fram tam casereAugusto, t?t eall ymbehwyrft w?re
tomearcod. Teos tomearcodnesw?s ?ryst geworden fram tam deman Syrige Cirino. And ealle hig
eodon, and syndrige ferdon on hyra ceastre. Da ferde Iosep fram Galilea of t?receastre
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(translation by John Wycliffe, c. 1380-83)
And it was don in tho daies, a maundement wente out fro the emperour August, thatal the world
schulde be discryued. This firste discryuyng was maad of Cyryn, iustice of Sirie. And alle men
wenten to make professioun, ech in to his owne citee.
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Middle English
French
Languages
of
Germanic tribes