If you have any difficulties, see Appendix 7

2. Look at the picture and read notes. What question is raised?

3. Do you agree or disagree with the quotations? Discuss them in pairs.

A. "We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them." Abigail Adams

B. "If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American." Author Unknown

C. "The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself." Derek Walcott

D. "Words, too, have genuine substance − mass and weight and specific gravity." Tim O'Brien, Tomcat in Love

E. "Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery." Mark Amidon

F. "Words want to be free!" Author Unknown

G. "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." Oliver Wendell Holmes