Keeping traditions alive

C1 Advanced · Speaking Collaborative · Cambridge Ready original exercise

Talk with your partner for about two minutes about the question in the middle, using the ideas around it. Then you have about a minute to reach a decision together.

Now I'd like the two of you to have a conversation for around two minutes. Here are some kinds of tradition that people try to protect, along with a question for you to discuss. Take a few seconds to read through them.

Keeping traditions alive

traditional crafts

local festivals

family recipes

folk music and dance

regional dialects

Now, take a minute or so to agree on which tradition would be the greatest loss if it disappeared.

Now, talk together about why it might be important to keep these traditions alive.

Why might it be important to keep these traditions alive?

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