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Unit 12 Culture Shock Warm-up Exercise 2 Listen to three people talking.Which country are they from? 1.Our typical way of life? Well,we're a beach culture,you know.We spend a lot of time at the beach,surfing,swimming,eating,partying-we even have our Christmas dinner on the beach,you know! It's the weather,you see,always lots of sunshine.And as for free time,we're just crazy about sport--cricket, rugby,tennis.I guess most of us spend our holidays on the coast in our country-it's very expensive to go abroad, you know. Everywhere's just so far away! 2.Well,it's a big,big country,so it's kind of hard to say what's typical.Like the weather we've got all kinds of different climates.Our way of life,well,I guess it's fast,to the food is fast,too,lots of hamburgers and hot dogs.What else? Er, I guess we watch a lot of TV in our free time-three are hundreds of channels on 24 hours a day.Er, we go to the movies a lot,too.And sport is very big.Our basketball and football stars earn millions of dollars.Most of us go on holiday in our own country,it's so big and there are so many wonderful places to visit.You should come and visit us? 3.It's difficult to say what is typical,as we've become such a multicultural society. Our weather hasn't changed though and people still spend a lot of time talking about it!In terms of food,our traditional roast beef or fish and chips are not as popular as they used to be.People eat a lot more "international" food these days:Italian food,Indian food,that kind of thing.Free time? If you go to a park any weekend,you'll see lots of people jogging,walking or fishing.There are a lot of fitness fanatics! We like watching sport too,especially footabll, though our national teams always seem to lose! A lot of us go abroad for our holidays every year.Greece and Italy are the most popular destinations,probably because the weather's so nice.There we are.I've mentioned the weather again! Exercise 3 Listen to the people again and make notes about these things: |
