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Continue Activity 14 below

For our interview

Example: Chinese New Year Celebrations Begin in China

Main idea Extra information that exemplifies
and explains
• They do the Chinese Lion Dance to frighten away evil spirits and bring luck for
The Chinese New Year is
the most important festival the New Year.
for Chinese people. • Fireworks are important, too.
• In northern China, they eat dumplings,
while in southern China, they eat rice cakes.

People come to visit. • It is a time for family reunions.
• Chinese people’s children who live abroad come to visit their relatives.
• Tourists usually gather at the Chaoyang International Festival.

This year will be the Year • People are dressed in red all around the city.
• Couplets with slogans and poems are pasted on or tacked to doors.
Differences between American and British English
of the Dog.
• Others are ready to go to the Longtan Fair.

15. Do the same with your TV show in your notebook. If you don’t have the
transcript, watch it again to check what words you don’t understand.

16. Listen to the interviews about the Chinese New Year. Try to identify
where Jocelyn, the penultimate interviewed girl, and Kathy, the last
one, are from. Write the name below the flag.

TRACK 25

Remember
17. With your teacher’s help, identify grammatical differences
There are some
between British and American variants in your TV program. differences in English
Example: grammar; for example,
future with shall is a
British English feature.
session 7 I remember in first grade we learnt people would say “in university”. one variant.
Yes, that is a British form of
I heard the British girl saying: “We shall
Also, some prepositions
speaking about the future.
also go to Macau where I have some
may change (as in
Another difference is “at
friends I studied with at university.”
the example). There
university” because American
are also some fixed
about the verb form shall.
expressions (idioms)
which are only used in
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