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Geography · Grade 9

Culture, Language and Place

Learners investigate how cultures and languages change across space: how lingua francas, pidgins and creoles arise; why languages become endangered and how communities such as Welsh and Māori speakers revitalise them; how pilgrimage creates flows of people to sacred places with many meanings; and how globalisation, local adaptation and place-naming reshape identity. Census data and real cases anchor every claim.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 110 minutes
  • Culture, language and place check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, pin a map, pick map regions, match pairs and type a number
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What learners will discover

  • Explain how languages spread and change through contact, including lingua francas, pidgins, creoles and language shift.
  • Use data to explain language endangerment and evaluate revitalisation strategies.
  • Explain sacred space and pilgrimage as geographic flows and describe places with multiple meanings neutrally.
  • Analyse how globalisation homogenises, hybridises and localises culture, and how place names express identity and power.

Lessons

  1. Languages in contact 6 steps4 practiceabout 27 min
  2. Endangerment and revitalisation 6 steps4 practiceabout 28 min
  3. Sacred space and pilgrimage 6 steps4 practiceabout 27 min
  4. Globalisation, local culture and place names 6 steps3 practiceabout 28 min
  5. Culture, language and place check 10 questions at the end

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