How to preserve your culture

主題語境：文化 篇幅：323詞 建議用時：7分鐘

1Look at any objects in your house,meals you eat,or gestures you use,and you'll find evidence of culture.Cultural traditions and perspectives have shaped who you are.Learn more about them and how you can keep them strong.

Participate in traditions

2Share your culture's art and technology.Each culture has its own clothing,music,visual arts,religions,and many more unique characteristics.Other members of your culture will be overjoyed to teach or talk about their hobbies,their jobs,their projects,and what they do for fun.

3Attend or organize major events.Your country,tribe,or immigrant ethnic group almost certainly celebrates major holidays or cultural festivals.

4Spend time with other members of the community.The best way to preserve your culture is to keep it alive.

Record your culture

5Choose a focus.You can record anything you've discovered through your research and life,no matter how small it seems.What you can't do is write down everything about a culture.There's just too much to say.Most people choose one of two directions instead: a personal history of one's own experience,or a family's;a detailed look at one aspect of the culture,such as cooking,jokes,or any other subtopic.

6Decide on a medium.You can use calligraphy,oral storytelling,or another traditional medium to make the recording a personal cultural experience as well.Or you can put your work on a website,DVD,or another digital form.This lets you share your cultural story with people from all around the world.

7Accept change.The dialogue around passing on culture often sounds defeatist (失敗主義的).Cultures are“endangered”and need“preserving”before they die out.Real challenges and threats do exist,but don't assume that all change is bad.Culture helps people adapt to the world around them.

8In a word,preserving your culture is important.Your culture is a part of your identity.Don't lose it.

Reading Check

Ⅰ.Complete the following mind map with only one word for each blank.

Ⅱ.Discussion

Have you gotten any other methods of preserving your culture?What are they?

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Language Study

Ⅰ.Discover useful structures in the text

1.no matter how...意為“無論如何；無論怎樣”，后接讓步狀語從句

You can record anything you've discovered through your research and life,no matter how small it seems.你可以記錄下你在研究和生活中發現的任何東西，無論它看起來多么小。

2.do+動詞原形，表強調

Real challenges and threats do exist,but don't assume that all change is bad.真正的挑戰和威脅確實存在，但不要認為所有的變化都是壞的。

Ⅱ.Text-centered chunks

for fun 為了好玩

keep alive 保持生機

write down 記下

decide on 決定；選定

all around the world 全世界

pass on 傳遞

die out 滅絕

adapt to 適應

in a word 總而言之；總之