Part One: Warm Up

Discuss the following questions with your partner(s):

  1. What aspects of your culture are well-known throughout the world?
  2. What is the best way for world cultures to be shared?
  3. Have you ever been to a festival that included cultural diversity, for example, a music festival with international musicians? If so, discuss it. If not, would you like to?

Part Two: Vocabulary

Open the exercise and follow the instructions.

Exercise

Part Three: Listening

In this lesson, you will listen to four people discussing a festival.

Open the exercise and follow the instructions.

Exercise

Part Four: Further Discussion

Discuss the following questions with your partner(s).

  1. How well do you think the organizers achieved their goal of representing diverse cultures at the book festival?
  2. What else could the festival organizers do to increase cultural diversity within their festival?
  3. How do festivals like these help to celebrate and preserve culture?
  4. Why does cultural representation matter? What effects does only representing dominant cultures in media and at events like this have in wider society?
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