The benefits of a bilingual brain

What do you understand by these words? Discuss with your partner.

Bilingual /monolingual / multilingual / mother tongue / native speaker / first language /second language.

Watch the video and answer the questions.

True or False

1. A bilingual brain may work differently to a monolingual one.

2. Compound bilinguals develop two codes simultaneously.

3. A coordinate bilingual works with one set of concepts.

4. For subordinate bilinguals, the use of the first language is not important in order to learn the second.

5.The left side of the brain is dominant in logical and analytical processes and the right in emotional and social processes.

6. Children like adults only use one side of the brain to learn a language.

7. A multilingual brain has a lot of advantages.

8. Multilingual brains have denser gray matter.

9. Demencia and Alzheimer are delayed in multiligual brains.

10. Scientists have always thought that bilingualism is beneficial for children.

11. Problem solving tasks take place in the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex.

12.Bilingualism makes you more intelligent.

Discuss Wide your partner.

Do you enjoy learning languages? Why?

What other languages would you like to speak?

What do find easy and difficult about learning a language?

How will languages be useful to you in the future?

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1.True

2. True

3. False

4. False

5. True

6. False

7.True

8. True

9. True

10.False

11.True

12.False