国际交流英语视听说B4U4

国际交流英语视听说

Book 4

Unit

4

Tradition and Progress

国际交流英语视听说

Content

Think and Discuss

Exploring the ThemeAnalytical Listening

Sharing Your IdeasViewing the World Engaging Further Listening

国际交流英语视听说Unit 4

Tradition and Progress

Think and Discuss

Think and Discuss

Questions1. What is interesting or surprising about this photo?2. What does the word progress mean to you? 3. What traditions are important to you? What would happen if these traditions disappeared?

A man in Alaska uses a laptop computer while sitting on a snowbank.

Think and Discuss

Questions

1. What is interesting or surprising about this photo?

Example Answers It’s interesting that a man in a very remote place is using modern technology. It’s surprising that he seems quite comfortable in such a cold, outdoor setting.

Think and DiscussExample Answers

Questions

2. What does the word progress mean to you?

To me, the word progress means moving forward or improving. It might refer to technological progress, for example, more and more people have Internetaccess; political progress, for example, a government is becoming less corrupt and more just; or perhaps personal progress, for example, someone is becoming more educated or getting a better job.

Think and Discuss

Questions

3. What traditions are important to you? What would happen if these traditions disappeared?Example Answers Some of the Chinese cultural traditions like celebrating the Chinese New Year and the Moon Festival in autumn are important to me. If these traditions disappeared, I wouldn’t feel as full. I would miss feeling connected to my family and my culture.

国际交流英语视听说Unit 4

Tradition and Progress

Exploring the Theme

Exploring the Theme猎采集者 monastery n. 寺院

Tradition and Progress

hunter-gatherer n. (依靠打猎捕鱼和采集果实为生的)狩

Exploring the Theme

Tradition and Progress

A | Look at the photos and read the captions. Then discuss the questions.

A teenager learns to play a new sport—basketball—near his home in Batsumber, Mongolia.

Exploring the Theme

Tradition and Progress

Female weavers work in Chinchero, Peru. The weavers keep their traditional weaving skills alive by using them in a modern way— to earn money to support their families and their town.

Exploring the Theme

Tradition and Progress

The Hadza people of Tanzania are one of the last hunter-gatherer groups on Earth. Today, their traditional way of life is changing.

Exploring the Theme

Tradition and Progress

A woman in Kyoto, Japan shops for food along with her helper, a talking robot.

Exploring the Theme

Tradition and Progress

A monk talks on a cell phone at a monastery in India.

Exploring the ThemeDiscuss the questions.

Tradition and Progress

1. Which of these photos do you find the most interesting? Why? 2. Why would people want to keep their traditions? 3. How do you think life has

changed for these people over the last 10 years?

Exploring the ThemeWhy?

Tradition and Progress

1. Which of these photos do you find the most interesting?

Example Answers 1 I find the large photo the most interesting because basketball is not a traditional sport in Mongolia. They

don’t have the proper equipment, but they have found a way to enjoy the game.

Exploring the ThemeWhy?

Tradition and Progress

1. Which of these photos do you find the most interesting?

Example Answers 2 I find the photo of the women in Peru the most interesting because they are wearing colorful and unusual

clothing. I find the photo of the Hadza people the most interesting because even though they appear to live in a dry climate, they find enough food to live on.

Exploring the ThemeWhy?

Tradition and Progress

1. Which of these photos do you find the most interesting?

Example Answers 3 I find the photo from Japan the most interesting because it features a robot that appears to be helping people to do

their grocery shopping. I find the photo of the monk in India the most interesting because even though he is in a very remote place, he is able to use a cell phone to communicate.

Exploring the Theme

Tradition and Progress

2. Why would people want to keep their traditions? Example Answers People might want to keep their traditions because those traditions connect them to their ancestors as well as the places where they live. Some traditions, such as holiday celebrations, are also very enjoyable, so people keep them because they’re a lot of fun.

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