Different
customs
1 SHARE YOUR IDEAS
Different customs
How do you greet people in your country? Can you think of any other customs, for example, what do you say before a meal?
2 READING
A Listen and read the quiz. How many questions can you answer? If you don’t know the answer, guess.
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People in different countries often have different customs. If you aren’t careful, you might make a mistake and upset someone! Do you know what you should do in these situations?
B Comprehension check
Read the quiz again. For each of these sentences choose True, False or Doesn’t say.
C Reading skills Identifying the topic
Think about the topic of each question in the quiz, then match it with one of these headings.
Food
2 When you have soup in Japan, to show you like it you should eat noisily.
4 Before they eat, people in Britain usually say nothing.
Language
1 In English-speaking countries, if you accidentally walk into someone, you should smile politely and say sorry.
3 In China, a popular way to greet someone is to ask ‘Have you eaten?’
4 Before they eat, people in Britain usually say nothing.
Particular occasions
6 In Brazil, you usually take purple flowers when you go to a funeral.
Physical actions
5 When people in Greece nod their head, they mean ‘No.’
7 The ‘thumbs up’ sign means ‘OK!’ in Britain, but in Germany it can mean the number one.
8 In Thailand, it’s rude to touch a person on the head.
3 WORD WORK
Adverbs
Adverbs tell us how something happens.
She speaks clearly.
We form most adverbs by adding -ly to the adjective:
clear → clearly, quick → quickly, sudden → suddenly
Some adverbs don’t follow this rule:
good → well, fast → fast, early → early, late → late
Remember!
Pridevniki, ki se končajo na -y:
angry → angrily, happy → happily
Pridevniki, ki se končajo na -l:
careful → carefully, successful → successfully
A Find more adverbs in the quiz.
usually, …
B Write the adverbs for these adjectives.
C Now choose an adverb from your list in 3B to complete these sentences.
Work in pairs and compare your sentences.
4 WRITING
A visit to my country
Use what you know
Imagine your keypal is coming to stay with you soon. Write an email describing some of the customs in your country, for example:
Food
What special dishes are there in your country?
Language
Think of some useful expressions and explain when you use them.
Do you use the same language when you speak to your friends and when you speak to adults?
What should your keypal say when he/she meets people for the first time?
Are there any interesting or important customs in Slovenia?
Is there anything your friend should or shouldn’t do?
WRITING GUIDE
Writing an email
- Write a few words about the topic of your email in the ‘Subject line’. For example:
Your visit - Begin your email:
Dear + name
Young people often use Hi … , Hello … , or Hey … with their friends. - Paragraphs and punctuation
Use a new paragraph when you write about a new topic.
Your email will be easier to read if your spelling and punctuation are correct! - Endings
Some people use abbreviations like these:
BW = Best wishes.
BFN = Bye for now.
We only use these when we're writing to someone we know well.