The Language You Never Forget
Grammar: Embedded Questions
A Level 5 English lesson exploring psychology.
What's in this lesson
A Level 5 (advanced) ESL lesson on psychology, practising embedded questions. The worksheet has a reading, target vocabulary, a grammar reference with practice and discussion questions.
From the reading: The Language You Never Forget
Around 281 million people currently live outside their country of birth — and a significant proportion of them share an experience that psycholinguistics has only recently begun to name. They dream in a language they rarely speak. They reach for it when they are frightened or in pain. And, increasingly, they are describing the slow disappearance of that language as something that resembles grief. Researchers call it language grief: the particular loss that bilingual and multilingual adults feel as a dominant language gradually displaces the mother tongue that once formed the core of their identity.
Vocabulary
- code-switching
- dominant language
- embedded in
- heritage language
Grammar: Embedded Questions
- Present simple =
- She speaks Mandarin at home. — fixed, stable truth about identity or habit
- Present continuous =
- She is speaking English more and more. — a trend or change currently in progress
Discussion questions
- When did you last speak your first language and feel completely yourself?
- Is the language you think in always the one you speak most?
- Have you ever struggled to express an emotion in English that felt easy in another language?
The Language You Never Forget
Grammar: Embedded Questions
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Full lesson plan with reading, grammar, vocabulary, and discussion.
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