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7 Culture • Youth                        7   Culture   Youth projects                                              8    Culture  Book days
                                                                   I can research and talk about youth projects.
                                                                                                                                             I can talk about book festivals.
            projects                                 1  Read the article about the Hideaway Youth
                                                                                                                                                                     3.09   Read and listen to the text again
                                                       project. Why did the project win an award?  Hideaway                     1  Make compound nouns using the words in   3   and answer the questions.
                                                                                                                                  the boxes. Then scan the text to find three
             Aim                                     2   3.08   Read and listen to the article again                              compound nouns from the list. What do they   1  Which one can you attend all year round?
                                                                                                                                  mean?
             Research and talk about youth projects.   and answer the questions.     youtH Project                                                                 2  You like acting and want to attend a
                                                       1  How old are the young people who are                                        best book story work           suitable workshop. Which one would you
                                                        supported by the Hideaway Youth Project?  Helping young people to make a                                     go to, the book festival or the book street?
                                                                                                                                                                     Why?
            Warm-up                                    2  What are the aims of Hideaway?       difference                           sellers shop telling worm      3  Your best friend hopes to meet his
                                                       3  What happened in 1965?
            Focus on the photos and elicit that they   4  What programmes should young people                                   2  Read the web page to find out which one is   favourite writer in person. Which one
                                                                                                                                                                     would you recommend? Why?
                                                        join if they want to become healthier?
            show young people doing different          5  What can people learn at the Young Men’s   aims                         older, the book festival or the book street.  4  You don't like reading about murders.
                                                                                                                                                                     Which one should you not go to? Why?
            activities. Focus on the title of the lesson   Project and the Young Women’s Project?  Hideaway tries to support young people aged   Let’s celebrate   5  You prefer to have your books signed by the
            and elicit or explain that a youth project   6  Why was 2014 an important year for   eleven to twenty-five in Moss Side, Manchester.                     writers. Which one is your first choice? Why?
                                                        Hideaway?
            is an organisation that provides activities,   3    YOur Culture  Work in pairs and   The organisation aims to give young people a   books!          4     YOur Culture  Write about a book
                                                                                     way of expressing their opinions and making
            help or advice for young people in a       answer the questions about your country.  positive contributions to society.                                or film festival in your country. Do research
            particular area. Ask: What organised       1  Are youth projects like Hideaway common                              Do you want to meet other people who just love a   online and complete the table.
                                                                                                                               good story? Then check out these perfect events for
                                                        in your country?
            activities are there for young people in your   2  Do you think enough is being done in your   History             all bookworms!                       Name of the festival
            area? Are there sports clubs? What about    country to support young people? Why /   In the 1960s, the city of Manchester had problems   International Agatha Christie Festival  History of the festival
            youth clubs? What do young people do if     Why not?                      with crime, violence and unemployment. The founders   Agatha Christie, the famous mystery writer, is the   Where it takes place
                                                                                      of the Hideaway Youth Project wanted to provide a
                                                                                                                               best-selling novelist of all time. Her books, translated
            there are no organised activities? Where do   4    uSe It!  Research a youth project in   safe place – a ‘hideaway’ for young people in the   into over 100 languages, are read and loved by   When it takes place
                                                                                                                                                                    What you can do there
                                                                                      Moss Side area in particular.
            they meet? Elicit a range of answers.      your country and write a fact file about it.   Since opening in 1965, the project has helped   people all over the world. Since 2004, fans of Agatha
                                                       Find out:                      thousands of teenagers of different cultures,    Christie have been meeting every year at the festival.  5    uSe It!  Work in pairs. Tell your partner
                                                       •  what the project is called  religions and races. They can share their stories   Where?                   about the festival you wrote about in
             Background                                •  where it is                and get advice, as well as take part in activities that   Torre Abbey, Torquay in Devon  exercise 4.
                                                       •  when it was started        develop skills. Many of these teenagers then go on to   When?
             Moss Side in Manchester became            •  what its main aims are     become project volunteers themselves.     September (usually the 11 th  to the 20 th )  Nguyễn Văn Bình Book Street
             known in the 1960s and 1970s for its      •  who can join                                                         What?                            Launched on January 9, 2016,  Nguyễn Văn Bình
             high levels of crime, especially violent   •  what people can do there          activities                        Listen to talks on Agatha Christie’s books, watch    Book Street received 1.5 million visitors and sold
                                                       •  what the benefits of joining are for young
             and drug-related crime. Since that         people                       Programmes include:                       theatre groups perform her plays, take part in writing   more than 500,000 copies of books in the first year.
                                                                                                                               and drama workshops, go to murder mystery parties
                                                                                                                                                                It provides a location for businesses in the publishing
             time, a lot of money has been spent                                     Powerhouse – fun sports activities such as football   and taste food that appears in Agatha Christie’s books!  sector to organise events and present products,
                                                                                     and basketball, or specialist sessions on cooking
             on redevelopment and youth projects                                     and art.                                                                   and a cultural space for book enthusiasts. The
                                                                                                                                                                pedestrian-only street includes more than 20 book
             such as the one mentioned in the article,                               Healthy Living – young people learn about how                              stalls featuring books and magazines from domestic
                                                                                     important it is to eat well and do regular exercise.
                                                                                                                                                                and foreign publishers.
             designed to keep young people away                                      Young Men’s Project and Young Women’s Project –                            Where?
             from gangs and crime.                                                    these two separate projects support and encourage                         Nguyễn Văn Bình Street, District 1, Hồ Chí Minh City,
                                                                                      young men and women to talk about sensitive
                                                                                      topics openly and honestly. The sessions                                  Việt Nam
                                                                                      promote acceptance and tolerance, and build                               When?
            Exercise 1                                                                self-confidence.                                                          8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Daily
                                                                                                                                                                What?
            Read out the question and check that                                                                                                                Listen to famous writers talk about their best-sellers,
            students understand award. Students read                                       award winners                                                        take part in writing workshops and talk shows,
            the article and answer the question. Check                                 In 2014, the Hideaway Youth Project won the                              attend book signings and book releases, and choose
                                                                                       Youth Work Award for their success in helping                            from thousands of titles in the festival bookshop.
            the answer with the class.                                                 young people be the best that they can be.
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            The Hideaway Youth Project won the
            Youth Work Award for their success in
            helping young people to be the best   sessions promote acceptance,     Elicit that a fact file is a set of facts about
            that they can be.
                                                 tolerance and self-confidence.    something, with a bit of discussion and
            Exercise 2  e 3.08                 6  Hideaway won the Youth Work Award   explanation. Put students into pairs to
            Allow students time to read the questions,   in 2014.                  do their research and write their fact file.
                                                                                   Students could finish this for homework.
            then play the audio. Students read and listen   Exercise 3 YOUr CULTUrE
            to the article, then answer the questions.   Allow students time to read the questions   Ask pairs in turn to present the youth
            With stronger classes, encourage students   and prepare their answers individually.   project they researched to the class.
            to write full sentences for their answers.   Students then work in pairs to discuss   Discuss as a class which are the best and
            Students compare their answers in pairs,   the questions. Discuss the answers as a   most interesting projects.
            then check answers with the class.                                     AnsWErs
                                               class. Ask further questions to encourage
             AnsWErs                           students to say more, e.g. What problems   Students’ own answers.
            1  The young people are aged eleven to   do young people face in Việt Nam? Is there   Optional activity: speaking
              twenty-five.                     a problem with violence and crime? What
            2  Hideaway aims to give young people   about unemployment? How could the   Put students into small groups and
              in Moss Side, Manchester a way of   government support young people more?  tell them they are going to plan a new
              expressing their opinions and making                                  youth project for their area. Ask them to
              positive contributions to society.    AnsWErs                         use the checklist in exercise 4 to think of
            3  The project opened in 1965.     Students’ own answers.               details for their new project. Encourage
            4  Powerhouse and Healthy Living   Exercise 4 UsE IT!                   them to use their imaginations and
              programmes help young people to                                       think of an amazing youth project!
              become healthier.                Elicit some examples of youth projects   Ask groups in turn to present their
            5  Young men and women are         that students could research. If you   youth project to the class. The class
              encouraged to talk about sensitive   cannot think of any, discuss what searches   could vote for the best one.
              topics openly and honestly. The   students could do to find examples, e.g. by
                                               searching for ‘youth project’ and a city in
                                               Việt Nam.
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