逍遥学能 2014-11-06 12:35
【—人教版初中一年级上册英语第八单元文化背景教材】这张是介绍对于出生和生日的询问。下面就是老师大家带来的对第七八单元 When is your birthday? 文化背景的相关介绍。
Unit 8 When is your birthday? 文化背景知识介绍
1. Ask students about which age groups in their culture like to talk about how old they are and which age groups don't. In the United States, young children like to tell how old they are. Teenagers are sometimes sensitive about age questions because they want people to think they are older than they really are. After age 25, it is not considered polite to ask someone's age, except for business reasons. Many people in the United States think it's good to be young and bad to be old. How is it in the students' culture? Do teenagers like to tell their ages? Do younger or older adults get more respect?
2. Most American children celebrate birthdays with a cake with lighted candles on top, one candle for each year of their age. The birthday boy (or girl) is supposed to make a wish (without telling anyone what it is) and blow out the candles. If he blows out all of the candles with one breath, the wish will come true. Singing "Happy Birthday to You" is also a tradition on birthdays.
Some birthdays are more important than other birthdays, especially in the life of a teenager and young adult.
Age 13: becomes a teenager
Age 16: can obtain a driver's license in the United States (for an automobile)
Age 18: can register to vote
Age 21: can legally drink alcohol
In regard to astrology, many Americans know their sign (of the Zodiac) but most people do not seriously believe in astrology. In China, people sometimes celebrate their lunar birthday rather than their solar birthday. Chinese people also use twelve animals to symbolize the year in which one is born. The animals represent the twelve Earthly Branches, and they are the rat, the cattle, the tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the sheep, the monkey, the rooster, the dog, and the pig.
上述是关于出生年月等月份的的学习的相关文化背景的介绍，希望对各位同学们有所帮助哦！