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Continue Activity 27 below

• Write some sentences in your notebook comparing cultural traditions from the
essays you selected.
• Include some Mexican cultural traditions.

Closure stage-socialization

28. Organize the sentences from Activity 27 into paragraphs.

• Follow the list of topics on the chart in Activity 24. Look at the example.
Paragraphs. Opinions Example: Topics In all the countries where people drink tea, they make it by pouring boiling

Paragraphs

Recipe
water onto tea leaves. The UK, Russia and Japan favor loose tea, but in

powdered tea leaves.
British and Japanese teas are made in small quantities, the same as
Utensils Mexico, people are used to teabags. However, Japanese tea requires
Mexican tea. They all consume it immediately. Instead of drinking the tea
session 10 a samovar, a container that stores large portions of tea, available for
immediately, Russians drink it throughout the day. That is why they use

several people. Three out of the four countries use cups and drink tea
individually. In contrast, the Japanese group invited to the ceremony drinks
out of the same bowl.

FOR OUR COMPARATIVE CHART

29. Make the first draft of the comparative chart.
• Use some abbreviations and symbols to summarize the information.

› The indicates that a tradition is followed in that culture.
› The x means that it is not followed.
› If there is a specific word on the chart, for example “teabags”, it means that

instead of using loose tea leaves, that culture prefers teabags.

• Keep in mind the paragraphs you wrote in Activity 28. Look at the example.

Example: Mexican
British Russian Japanese

Add boiling water ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Recipe to tea leaves black black green

- Type of tea

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