CULTURE
This week you have chosen to write about culture. Here you have some questions that will guide your writing.
1. Can you give a simple definition of culture in your own words?
2. How would you define the pople from your own country in a few words?
3. What are the topics of conversation that make people in your culture uncomfortable? What topics do you discuss that might be difficult in other cultures?
4. Do you agree that your culture is rapidly being absorved by other cultures? Can you give an example of how a foreign culture has affected positively your own culture? Can you give an example of how your country has been negatively influenced by another culture?
5. What is something that you find typically Chilean/Uruguayan, or that you feel identified with or proud of?
Make sure you write around 280 words about this topic and post comments on 2 of your classmates’ posts. Please see some useful words and expressions below.
Useful words and expressions:
............. could be defined as / I would define ............... as / I think ............. means ...
Chileans/Uruguayans are people who like... / ................ are the sort of persons that ... / On the whole the people in my country ... / What makes ............... different from people in other parts of South America is the fact that they...
.............. people find it difficult to speak about ... / For ................. people it is embarrasing to talk about .../ ............. is a taboo subject / ................... and ............... are seen as private matters/ ................ people wouldn’t get involved in discussing..............
...................are influencing the way we ... / ................... people have introduced a new ways of ... / .............. years ago we used to .................. but now we ... / Because of the influence of .................... we are now more ...
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