LISTENING AND SPEAKING - UNIT 4: Customs and Tradition

LISTENING AND SPEAKING

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UNIT 4: Customs and Tradition

​Let's Take a look at the following pictures

What are customs and traditions that you still practice?

Open Ended

What are customs and traditions that you still practice?

How do you do that customs and tradition?

LISTENING 1 - Understanding Key Vocabulary​

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Multiple Choice

My neighborhood is very multicultural. People of many cultures and religions live here.

• busy and crowded due to a lack of space for housing

• including people who have many different customs and beliefs

Multiple Choice

The tradition of letter writing has almost died out. These days, everyone communicates by social media, texting or email.

• to change into something else

• to become rare and then disappear

Multiple Choice

Min-Soo interacts with a lot of people all day at work, so when he gets home, he likes to relax and spend some time alone.

• to avoid doing things with other people

• to communicate and do things with someone or something

Multiple Choice

Tomorrow is my 10th work anniversary. I can’t believe I've had this job for ten years!

• a job that you have enjoyed working in for a long time

• the day on which an important event happened in a previous year

Multiple Choice

In the United States, most families have a celebration at Thanksgiving. They get together with family and friends to enjoy a big meal.

• a trip to another country or to visit family

• doing something to mark a special day or event

Multiple Choice

A few generations ago, people listened to the radio at night instead of watching TV or going online.

• all the people of about the same age within a society or a family

• a period of time lasting for several months

Multiple Choice

Anna has had an active political career. She was on the city council for several years and then she was elected to the national government.

• relating to a person's job

• relating to the government

Multiple Choice

Social anthropologists study the ways in which people live in groups around the world.

• relating to a large group of people who live together in an organized way

• relating to countries and their systems of government

​LISTENING 1

Listen to the podcast on "Effects of modern technology on traditions" and pay attention to the following highlights

​Effects of modern technology on traditions

​Write the Old Tradition (OT) and the New Tradition (NT) on Preparing Holiday Food, Recipes, and Where People Eat Holiday Meals

Example:

Sending Cards or Messages

OT: People sent cards

NT: People send messages through social networking or by text or email.​

Open Ended

Write the Old Tradition (OT) and the New Tradition (NT) on Preparing Holiday Food

Open Ended

Write the Old Tradition (OT) and the New Tradition (NT) on Recipes

Open Ended

Write the Old Tradition (OT) and the New Tradition (NT) on Where People Eat Holiday Meals

​The Answers

​According to the podcast, which picture shows a tradition the speaker DOES NOT mention?

​POST-LISTENING

​Identifying Cause and Effect

Listen and complete the extracts from the podcast.​

Fill in the Blanks

Anthropology, in a general sense, is the study of humanity. I know that's not very exact.

we have many types of Anthropology, like Linguistic anthropology and Social anthropology.

Fill in the Blanks

Some traditions die out

our way of life changes.

Fill in the Blanks

Now,

developments in technology, people spend more time interacting with other people over the internet.

Fill in the Blanks

But now we don't have to work so hard.

we have modern kitchens and supermarket food.

Fill in the Blanks

In the United States, at Thanksgiving, which is one of the biggest celebrations, many families go to restaurants

they don't want to spend their holiday working in the kitchen.

​LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

SUFFIXES

Classify the words to their classes​ based on their suffixes

​The Answers

​Let's Identify each word's other classes

​The Answers

​The Answers

​Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets.

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​LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

DEPENDENT PREPOSITION​

Circle the correct prepositions​

​LISTENING 2

Listening for opinion

​Listen and complete the opinion phrases.

Fill in the Blanks

I

more.

Fill in the Blanks

How did this whole gift giving for every holiday tradition get started, anyway? It

silly to me.

Fill in the Blanks

I

. I get tired of shopping for gifts.

Fill in the Blanks

I

. I like giving gifts.

Fill in the Blanks

But I'm

because then you have to spend money ... money which could be spent on more important things.

Fill in the Blanks

Instead,

write letters of advice for the future? That would be more special.

Fill in the Blanks

Sorry, I

. I doubt that graduates would be happy if we changed that custom!