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Unit 1 One World
Part B
Listening Tasks
A Conversation
Birthday Celebrations Around the World
Exercise 1
Listen to the conversation and write down answers to the questions you hear.
Chairman: Welcome to this special birthday edition of One World. Tonight we have a special program dedicated to birthday celebrations around the world. With us in the studio we have Shaheen Hag and Pat Cane, who have a weekly column on birthdays in the Toronto Daily Star.
Shaheen: Good evening.
Pat: Good evening.
Chairman: Shaheen, perhaps we could begin with you. How are birthdays celebrated in India?
Shaheen: Well, perhaps were all assuming that everyone in the world celebrates their birthday. This just isnt the case. Low-income families in India, for instance, simply cant afford any festivities. And most Muslims dont celebrate their birthdays.
Pat: I think Shaheen has raised an interesting point here. The Christian church, too, was actively against celebrating birthdays.
Shaheen: Of course some Muslims do celebrate their birthdays. In Egypt, Turkey and Indonesia, for example, the rich people invite friends and families around. But not in small villages.
Chairman: Here in England your twenty-first used to be the big one. But now it seems to have moved to eighteen. Is that true?
Pat: Yes, in most parts of the West eighteen is now the most important birthday. In Finland, for example, eighteen is the age when you can vote, you know, or buy wines, drive a car and so on. But in Japan I think you have to wait till youre twenty before you can smoke or drink.
Shaheen: I know in Senegal, which is another Muslim country, girls get to vote at sixteen and boys at eighteen. And in Bangladesh, girls at eighteen and boys at twenty-one.
Chairman: Thats interesting. I mean is it typical that around the world girls are considered to be more mature than boys?
Shaheen: Yes, I think so, and in Mexico and Argentina, for example, they have enormous parties for fifteen-year-old girls.
Pat: You
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