1. What language do FISH speak?

2. Learn a Second Language A mouse saved her young from a ferocious cat by barking ‘bow bow’. After the cat ran away, the mouse said to her offspring ‘See, children, it pays to know a second language’. After Efstathiadis, 93.

3. What do YOU think are the benefits of learning another language?

4. When you speak two languages, you are worth for two people. Why learn another language?

5. The WORLD is in YOUR hands

6. DISCOVER the WORLD through languages

7. Learn about other cultures and countries

8. Meet more people around the world!

9. Get higher grades in MATH, social studies and Science.

10. What happens to your brain?

11. Think FASTER!

12. Your MEMORY skills increases Learning another language reduces the risk of memory loss, dementia and Alzheimer

13. Process more information in less time

14. What parts of my brain do I use when I learn another language?

15. Ways of Communication: BODY LANGUAGE ORAL LANGUAGE WRITTEN LANGUAGE

16. Communicating

17. What is a Language? A system of communication consisting of sounds, words and grammar, or the system of communication used by the people of a particular country or profession. Cambridge Dictionary

18. A Monolingual person... Speaks, reads and writes only ONE language.

19. A Bilingual person... Speaks, reads and writes TWO languages.

20. A Trilingual person... Speaks, reads and writes THREE languages.

21. A Multingual person... Speaks, reads and writes MANY languages.

22. Who do you think can see better?

23. Spanish Language is all around you

24. Think of your future with more languages...

25. You can get more job opportunities being bilingual Who do you think will get this job? MONOlingual? Bilingual? Multilingual?

26. What fish do you want to be?

27. “If I speak only one language, I can help my country as only one man. If I can use two languages, I can help as two men. But if I can use all nine languages, then I can work as nine men.” Village Elder, Elitrea.

28. “The more languages you know, the more of a person you are.” The European Comission.

29. References ACTFL American Counsil for the Teaching of Foreign Languages http://www.actfl.org http://www.actfl.org CAL Center for Applied Linguistics http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/ncrcds04.html http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/ncrcds04.html AP Psychology http://www.rhsmpsychology.com/Handouts/brain_and_language.htm http://www.rhsmpsychology.com/Handouts/brain_and_language.htm Cambridge Dictionary Online Quotations on Second Language Adquisition http://homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c/SLA/SLAQuotes.htm http://homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c/SLA/SLAQuotes.htm All Images taken from Google Images

30. By Gaida Jonaitis and Gaspar Navarro Konnoak Elementary School WSFCS