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5D Multicultural Canada
Reading 3 Read the text again and answer the questions.
1 Work in pairs. Look at the photos. What can you 1 How did the writer meet her boyfriend?
see? 2 How does her friend Gurindah meet
boyfriends?
2 5.8 Read the text and underline the 3 How are Canadian marriages different from
following information. traditional Chinese marriages?
1 the official languages which are spoken in
Canada
2 places in Canada
3 nationalities of people who live in Canada
Culture
For example, I’m from a
Canadian Inuit family in
north-west Canada and my
boyfriend is French-Canadian from
Quebec, in the east. I haven’t met my
boyfriend’s family yet. I’ve spoken to his parents by
phone – but my French is terrible and their English
isn’t great either. We met at university and started
going out together last year. That’s a normal way for
a lot of Canadians to get together, but my friend
Gurindah thinks it’s amazing. Her parents are from
India and they have a different way of doing things.
They don’t let her choose her own boyfriends – they
Canada today is a multicultural society. We have two ask an Indian astrologer to help them select boys
official languages, English and French, but many other from their community. The astrologer has a website
languages are spoken too. Immigrants from all over which lots of parents in India use too. But Gurindah
the world have come to live here. Each community says the boys must be from Canada!
brings its own customs and traditions, and as a
We live in Vancouver and there’s a big Chinese
result daily life can be very interesting!
community here. Two of my classmates were born in
Hong Kong. Neither of them has a Chinese girlfriend
and their parents are upset about that, I think.
They want to organise a marriage in the traditional
Chinese way. That means the parents choose the
bride, but I think my friends prefer the Canadian
system!
Family life
culture
History and English
4 Find words in the text which
match the definitions.
Social networking
1 A person who goes to live 1 Work in pairs. Answer the questions below and compare your
in a different country. answers.
2 Things which people do 1 When did online social networking begin?
as part of their cultural 2 What were the first social networking websites?
traditions. 3 How old do you have to be to join Facebook or Bebo?
3 People who ‘read’ the stars 4 What can you do on social networking sites?
and write horoscopes.
4 A woman who is getting 2 Read about social networking and check your answers.
married.
Listening Do you belong to a social networking site? Did your parents have a
5 5.9 Listen to a radio chat homepage when they were teenagers? Probably not, because online
social networking began less than 20 years ago. Some of the earliest
show for young people in
online communities were theGlobe.com, Geocities and Tripod.
Canada. Where is Ravi’s
TheGlobe.com (1994) and Tripod (1995) were both started by
girlfriend from?
students who used chat rooms at university. Chat rooms were places
where you could ‘talk’ online. Personal homepages were also becoming
6 5.9 Listen again. Choose popular, but people had to make their pages themselves. When the
the correct answer (a, b or c). concepts of the chat room and the homepage were combined, social
networking ‘exploded’ in popularity. By 2006, 55 per cent of teenagers
1 What is Ravi’s background?
in the USA had online profiles. MySpace, Bebo and Facebook are now
a He’s Polish. the biggest global networks, although they are not open to children
b He’s Indian. under 13. A typical social networking site lets you upload photos,
c He’s Canadian. videos and music as well as chatting. There are many other networks in
different countries and different languages, including sites which are for
2 Why doesn’t his girlfriend special interests. Flickr, for example, is a photography site and Gen.com
want to go anywhere with is for people who are researching their family trees.
him?
a She’s frightened.
b She’s angry.
c She’s embarrassed.
3 Who went back to Italy?
a Sofia.
b Sofia’s family.
c Nobody.
4 What happened to Sofia
and her boyfriend?
a They broke up.
b They got married.
c They stayed together.
5 What does Sofia say about
her parents?
There are always different opinions about new cultural fashions –
a They like her boyfriend. television, video games, mobile phones. Some people think they are
b It isn’t easy for them. bad, others think they are good. Parents, in particular, sometimes
c They’re still angry. don’t understand online social networking and worry about the contacts
that their children make. On the other hand, teenagers know that being
online is a great way to keep in touch with friends and to find out what’s
going on. People like belonging to groups – family, friends, sports clubs,
You have to be 13 to join etc. Today’s technology lets us do this in new ways.
ct
most social networking sites.
oje
What other things have age
Pr
limits in your country? Work
in pairs and make a poster. 3 Work in pairs. Why do you think social networking sites are
so popular? Use ideas from the text and your own ideas.
Ucz z pasją
Odkrywcy
Podróż to radość odkrywania i patrzenia na świat szeroko otwartymi oczyma, po to,
aby po ich zamknięciu przewijał się nam film kolorowych zdjęć, zielonych lagun,
dzikich zwierząt, porażających gór i oceanów, kolorowych ludzi, dalekich kultur i ob-
cych zwyczajów. A kiedy zmęczeni tym pędem znajdziemy czas na refleksję i relaks,
otwieramy podręczniki English Explorer. To kurs do nauki języka angielskiego
o wędrowaniu, poznawaniu, odkrywaniu. To filmy kręcone w krajach, których nazw nie
potrafimy zlokalizować na mapie, to artykuły odkrywców, pasjonatów, podróżników.
I już wiemy: National Geographic!
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English Explorer 1 i 2.
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2c: Artwork (Martin Sanders; Cengage Learning); 3a: Celia Hart (Cengage Learning (EMEA) Ltd.)
