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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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