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b. Speaker #2: What is a big company in your Θ Listen to each response and match it to the
country?
question it answers.
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country?
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categories.
Actions: hold on to, speak, immigrate, grow, hear. v Extra Practice
live
Try answering one or more of these questions
Things/People: architecture, capital, territory, for extra practice. Use at least three sentences in
foreigner, population, size your response to each question.

Descriptions: irative, official, large, the sanre as, less Sample Responses
tiran, well krrown
1. Describe the culture and traditions in your
Ö Choose one of the questions below. Prepare native country.
your answers to this question by writing People of my native country are proud oftheir
notes below. Use the questions from part 3 to culture and traditions. We are famous for having
help with your notes. fun and also doing a certain type of dance. We
try to preserve the traditions of our country by
Answers will vary.,
sending children to summer camps where they
a. How big is your native country? How many learn the old language and traditions.
people live there?
2. What are the traditional clothes in your native
The territory of my native country isn't very large.
country?
It is probably tire same size as Germany. There
The traditional clothes for women in my country
are less tiran five million people in my country. I
look hke long dresses that have pretty patterns on
think a lot of foreigners have started immigratiirg
tliem. Usually women only wear these for special
to my country in recent years,
occasions like weddings. There used to be a
b. What are the official languages ofyour native traditional dress for men as well, but men these
country? days don't wear it anymore.
There are two official languages in my country.
3. Where can people see performances or enjoy
They are Irish and English. Eirglislr is spoken the circus in your native coimtry?
throughout the country, but in some parts, people
There are theaters, opera houses, and circus
speak Irish. Yoti might hear people speakiirg
buildings in my country. Many of tliem are located
Pohsh and Chinese. There are lots of people from
in the center of the city. Some cheaper ones are
Poland and China in my country,
located in areas where students stay.
c. What is the capital city ofyour country? Is this
4. Wlrat are the most popular vacation destinations
city known for anything?
in your country?
The capital city of my country is Rome. It is a
The most popular vacation destinations in my
very old but very beautiful city It is located in
country are tire big cities. There are two big cities,
the west of the country. Rome is well known for
one in the north and one in the south, that most
its architecture and the fact tlrat it has held on to
people visit. If people go to other places in my
many old traditions.
country, they'll probably only see small farmiirg
villages.
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