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EU & languagesEU & languages
Elisabetta GibertiniMichela Sgarbi
Mirjam ArulaHanna-Liis Karp
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Most popular languages in Most popular languages in EuropeEurope
• The Europe Union has 23 official languages.
• They are: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish.
• The most popular languages are German, French and English
• The most spoken language is German.
• Europe also has more than 60 indigenous regional and minority languages
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European Day of LanguagesEuropean Day of Languages
• Every year, 26 September is the day we celebrate Europe’s rich linguistic heritage.
• The first European day of languages was held in 2001
• Brussels will host International Language Days on 8 and 9 March 2013 at the Square-Brussels Meeting Centre.
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Lingua showLingua show• Lingua Show, one of the biggest international
language and education fairs in Europe
• This year it takes place in the Czech Republic from 14th to 16th March 2013.
• The main theme of this year's Lingua Show is life-long education
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Communication devicesCommunication devices
• The most popular is Facebook
• Also people use Twitter, Tumblr, Skype etc
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EU countriesEU countries• There are 27 countries in EU
• EU is an economical and political union
• Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Germany founded the European Coal and Steel Community
• Dutch, French, German and Italian were first working and official languages in EU
• Estonia joined the EU in 2004
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Comenius projectComenius project• Comenius project is European Union
educatioanl project
• Project was named after John Amos Comenius
• The theme of this years Comenius project is Your European Key to the World
• In this years Comenius project are Estonia, Italy, Turkey, Finland, Germany and Netherlands
• Similar project for University students is Erasmus
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Jeopardy gameJeopardy game• There are 5 categories in which there are 5
questions with different difficulty levels
• Contestant chooses 1 question from 1 category
• Answer starts with “WHAT IS…”
• If the answer is right they get the points for the question, if not they lose the same amount of points
• The winner is the person who has the most points in the end
• Link to our game: https://jeopardylabs.com/play/eu-languages
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SourcesSources http://ec.europa.eu/languages/languages-of-europe/eu-lan
guages_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/languages/languages-of-europe/index_
en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/languages/orphans/european-day-of-
languages_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/languages/news/20130306_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/languages/news/20130305_en.htm http://Images.google.com http://Wikipedia.com http://google.com http://jeopardylabs.com
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