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Starting out
UNIT 1 Growing up
Q: How old are you?
Q: How many years do you need to be 18?
Q: What does that mean be 18 in China?
Q:What will your parents do at that day?
Lead-in
Activity 1 Watch the video and answer the questions.
1 What is a coming-of-age ceremony? How do people celebrate in the video?
2 Which celebration makes the greatest impression on you? Why?
What is a coming-of-age ceremony?
How do people celebrate in the video?
A coming-of-age ceremony is an ________ that marks the time when a young person moves from __________ to ___________.
成人礼
event
childhood
adulthood
What is a coming-of-age ceremony?
How do people celebrate in the video?
In Ancient China, people held a traditional “capping ceremony” for a man at the age of 20 and a “hair-pinning ceremony” for a woman around her 15th birthday.
capping ceremony
hair-pinning ceremony
冠礼
筓(ji)礼
Ancient China
What is a coming-of-age ceremony?
How do people celebrate in the video?
On the South Pacific island of Pentecost, a ceremony of land diving takes place only for boys.
In the US, a particularly modern celebration takes place for a girl or a boy at the age of 16.
land-diving ceremony
a 16 party
South Pacific
i
America
Activity 2
Listen and read the poem.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling is best known for his works of fiction, along with his many short stories and his poems, including If. In 1907 , Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and to date he remains its youngest recipient.
One minute to read
If -
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting.
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or. being hated. don't give way to hating.
And ye