Task C - Read the article again. Answer the questions with information from the text - SBT Explore New Worlds 11 page 12

1. Nội dung câu hỏi

1. How many scripts exist today?

2. What does the Dongba script use instead of letters?

3. According to the article, where can you find street signs in the Cherokee language?

4. Who has used carving to teach people about the problem of writing systems at risk?

5. Where do people write in the languages Marma and Chakma?

   By 2100, over half of the world's 7,000 languages will probably be extinct. The writing systems in which many languages are written are disappearing, too. Many of the world's language share

writing systems, so today there are only about 140 different scripts. Sadly, one third of these is in danger of becoming extinct.

   There are a few possible reasons for this: maybe no one teaches the written form of the language in schools anymore, or only a few older people in the community speak the language.  In some

countries, modern technology hasn't helped, either. Some scripts use pictures instead of letters, like the Dongba script used by the Naxi people in China. These scripts can't easily be used on

computers, but this doesn't mean that they have any less cultural value than other scripts.

  "Scripts are a hugely important aspect of culture," say Martin Raymond and Lorna Evans of ScriptSource, a reference for the world's writing systems. When a culture loses its writing system, it

also loses everything it believed to be important enough to communicate in writing, such as poems, stories, legal documents, and personal letters. Writing is so important that many people feel a

strong connection to their written language even if they can't read it. For example, in the city of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, which is often called the capital of the Cherokee Nation, many of the street

signs are written in both English and the Cherokee language. Not many people can read the Cherokee language, but it is a way of remembering the city's Native American history.

   There are different ways of saving endangered alphabets.  Some ideas are very creative. For example, Tim Brookes decided to carve some of the less common scripts from Bangladesh, like

Marma and Chakma, to make artwork. Brookes has shown his work in schools, libraries, and universities across the United States and Europe. He hopes to increase people's interest in saving the

world's uncommon scripts.

2. Phương pháp giải

Đọc lại bài viết. Trả lời các câu hỏi với thông tin từ văn bản.

1. Hiện nay có bao nhiêu chữ viết?

2. Chữ Đông Ba dùng chữ gì thay cho chữ cái?

3. Theo bài báo, bạn có thể tìm thấy biển báo đường phố bằng tiếng Cherokee ở đâu?

4. Ai đã sử dụng hình khắc để dạy mọi người về vấn đề hệ thống chữ viết đang gặp nguy hiểm?

5. Người ta viết bằng ngôn ngữ Marma và Chakma ở đâu?

3. Lời giải chi tiết

1. There are about 140 different scripts existing today.

2. The Dongba script uses pictures instead of letters.

3. Street signs in the Cherokee language can be found in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

4. Tim Brookes has used carving to teach people about the problem of writing systems at risk.

5. Marma and Chakma are languages from Bangladesh, where people write using their respective scripts.