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Year 4 English 4026b -Term 4, Week 2 • Homework Practice Booklet: 4026b • Year 5 Vocabulary Skills text book pages 36-38- Our Mighty Planet • Learn your spelling test works that are on page 2 of the Homework Practice Booklet • Read every night for at least 30 minutes • Continue your vocabulary list and add at least 10 words – use a dictionary to look up unfamiliar words from the Homework Practice Booklet and personal reading. • Record definitions. • Continue with your Reading Log Warm Up: The Great Language Line-up It is estimated that there are just over 1,700 known languages in the world today. These are the top 6 languages - Spanish French Mandarin Chinese English Hindi Arabic Can you put them in the correct order from 1 - 6, starting with the language that is spoken by the most people in the world today? Answer: 1. English 2. Mandarin Chinese 3. Hindi 4. Spanish 5. French 6. Arabic Approximately 16% of the world’s population are English speakers and 14% speak Mandarin Chinese. Word of the week: myriad (adjective)– from Passage 3, Anne of Green Gables extract meaning: a vast quantity; countless synonyms: numerous; plentiful; many opposites (antonyms): a few; a handful; a limited amount sentence: There was a myriad of excited football supporters at the AFL Grand Final.