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1、学 海 无 涯 全新版听说教程 4 听力原文 Unit 1 One World Part B Listening Tasks A Conversation Birthday Celebrations Around the World Exercise 1 Listen to the conversation and write down answers to the questions you hear Chairman Welcome to this special birthday edition of One World Tonight we have a special program
2、 dedicated to birthday celebrations around the world With us in the studio we have Shaheen Hag and Pat Cane who have a weekly column on birthdays in the Toronto Daily Star Shaheen Good evening Pat Good evening Chairman Shaheen perhaps we could begin with you How are birthdays celebrated in India Sha
3、heen Well perhaps we re all assuming that everyone in the world celebrates their birthday This just isn t the case Low income families in India for instance simply can t afford any festivities And most Muslims don t celebrate their birthdays Pat I think Shaheen has raised an interesting point here T
4、he Christian church too was actively against celebrating birthdays Shaheen Of course some Muslims do celebrate their birthdays In Egypt Turkey and Indonesia for example the rich people invite friends and families around But not in small villages Chairman Here in England your twenty first used to be
5、the big one But now it seems to have moved to eighteen Is that true Pat Yes in most parts of the West eighteen is now the most important birthday In Finland for example eighteen is the age when you can vote you know or buy wines drive a car and so on But in Japan I think you have to wait till you re
6、 twenty before you can smoke or drink Shaheen I know in Senegal which is another Muslim country girls get to vote at sixteen and boys at eighteen And in Bangladesh girls at eighteen and boys at twenty one Chairman That s interesting I mean is it typical that around the world girls are considered to
7、be more mature than boys Shaheen Yes I think so and in Mexico and Argentina for example they have enormous parties for fifteen year old girls Pat You know in Norway they have a great party for anyone who s not married by the time they re thirty It s kind of embarrassing I mean you get pepper thrown
8、at you Chairman Pepper Why pepper Pat I m not really sure Shaheen So does that mean that on your twenty ninth birthday you can start thinking God I better get married Pat Well I m not sure how seriously they take it Chairman In England we have quite big parties for your fortieth fiftieth sixtieth an
9、d so on Pat Well in Japan your eighty eighth is considered Chairman Eighty eighth 学 海 无 涯 Pat to be the luckiest birthday Eight is a very lucky number in Japan Questions 1 What is One World 2 What is the topic of the program 3 What do Shaheen Hag and Pat Cane do 4 Why don t some people in India cele
10、brate their birthdays 5 Why is the eighteenth birthday so important in Finland 6 Why can girls in some countries get to vote at an earlier age than boys 7 Which of the countries mentioned in the conversation are Muslim countries Exercise 2 Listen to the conversation again and decide if each of the s
11、tatements you hear is true T or false F Statements 1 The program is broadcast in Canada every day 2 People everywhere in the world celebrate their birthdays 3 Many Muslims do not celebrate their birthdays for religious reasons 4 In England the twenty first birthday is very important which is unusual
12、 in the West 5 The twenty first birthday is very important in Japan 6 In Norway young men and women usually get married before thirty to avoid having pepper thrown at them 7 Eighteen is a very lucky number in Japan 8 It can be concluded that our world is made more colorful by the many different ways
13、 birthdays are observed in different countries Speaking Tasks Pair Work A Reflections on the text You have just heard a program about birthday celebrations around the world What do you think of the celebrations Why is it that some people do not celebrate their birthdays What does your birthday mean
14、to you Exchange views with your partner You may mention the following points in your discussion what birthdays mean to you how birthdays are observed around the world why some people don t celebrate their birthdays B Picture talk Talking about wedding customs A Sample Most people in the world hold a
15、 wedding ceremony when they get married However like birthday celebrations wedding celebrations are conducted in different ways depending on where you live which religion you believe in and how good is your financial situation The following are three groups of pictures showing three wedding ceremoni
16、es held in different places and at different times Give a brief description of each picture and then make a comparison between the three weddings 学 海 无 涯 Possible Description for reference Pictures a c show a typical wedding ceremony held in a church in a Western country In the first picture the bride is seen walking down the aisle leaning on her father s arm She is wearing a white wedding gown and holding a bouquet of flowers in her right hand All eyes turn to her as she slowly moves forward to
