Lesson 2. Customs Differ
What you'll learn:
Vocabulary: Different customs and traditions
Speaking: Different customs and cultures
Writing: A paragraph about different customs and cultures

| acceptable [ək'septəb(ə)l] (adj) able to be agreed on; suitable. The electoral arrangements must be acceptable to the people. apparently [ə'pærəntlı] (adv) as far as one knows or can see. He was apparently content with it. attitude ['ætıtju:d ] (n) a settled way of thinking or feeling about something. He was questioned on his attitude to South Africa. counterpart [’kaʊntəpαt] (n) a person or thing that corresponds to or has the same function as another. The minister met his foreign counterparts eternity [ı'tə:nıtı] (n) time without an end. His name will live for all eternity. eventually [ı'ventʃʊ(ə)lı] (adv) in the end, especially after a long delay. Eventually, I arrived at the hotel ertility [fə'tılıtı] (n) productiveness. Soil fertility. inappropriate [.ınə'proʊprıət] (adj) not suitable or proper in the circumstances. It would be inappropriate for me to comment. lick [lık] (v) pass the tongue over (something) in order to taste, moisten, or clean it. He licked the stamp and stuck it on the envelope. trend [trend ] (n) tendency, a general direction in which something is developing or changing. An economic trend. split [splıt] (v) break or cause to break forcibly into parts, especially into halves or along the grain. The ice cracked and split.

LISTEN AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS! Read Listening Material
Read through the questions. Then listen to the passage and answer the following questions.

1. What is the passage mainly about?
   a) Legal smoking age in the US
   b) Warnings by national institutes
   c) Cigarette industry and companies
   d) A new bill against cigarette industry
   e) Cancer as the consequence of cigarette
2. Which is NOT mentioned according to the passage?
   a) In US states legal age of smoking is 18 or 19
   b) About half a million people die in the US
   c) In Europe smoking age is 17
   d) Smoking age is 21 in Hawaii
   e) Cigarette causes cancer
3. Choose the correct answer about new bill according to the passage.
   1. It suggests improving cigarette industry
   2. It has been proposed by Richard Creagan
   3. It aims to increase smoking age up to 100 years
   4. It is an agreement between cigarette companies
   a) 1, 2
   b) 1, 4
   c) 2, 3
   d) 1, 4
   e) 3, 4
4. Choose the WRONG answer according to the passage.
   New bill may become state law if it agrees with ___________
   1. Smokers
   2. State bodies
   3. Cigarette companies
   4. National Cancer institute
   a) 2, 4
   b) 1, 2
   c) 3, 4
   d) 2, 3
   e) 1,4
5. Write at least two adjectives describing cigarette according to the passage.
6. Which word in the passage is closest in meaning to the phrase “cigarette industry”

The National Cancer Institute warns that cigarettes are harmful and cause cancer. About half a million people in the US die every year from smoking-related conditions. In January 2017, Hawaii became the first US state to raise its smoking age to 21. In other US states, the legal age is usually 18 or 19. Richard Creagan has proposed a new bill to increase the smoking age, between 2020 and 2024.

It suggests that the smoking age should go up to 30 in 2020, 40 in 2021, 50 in 2022, and 60 in 2023 - until finally, in the year 2024, people would need to be 100 years old to buy cigarettes.

He calls the cigarette industry a "ridiculously bad industry", because the tobacco industry designs this highly addictive product knowing that it is harmful and life threatening.

His new bill may become state law if it passes through the state bodies and strong negative reactions from tobacco companies.

1. What is the passage mainly about?
   a) Legal smoking age in the US
   b) Warnings by national institutes
   c) Cigarette industry and companies
   d) A new bill against cigarette industry
   e) Cancer as the consequence of cigarette
2. Which is NOT mentioned according to the passage?
   a) In US states legal age of smoking is 18 or 19
   b) About half a million people die in the US
   c) In Europe smoking age is 17
   d) Smoking age is 21 in Hawaii
   e) Cigarette causes cancer
3. Choose the correct answer about new bill according to the passage.
   1. It suggests improving cigarette industry
   2. It has been proposed by Richard Creagan
   3. It aims to increase smoking age up to 100 years
   4. It is an agreement between cigarette companies
   a) 1, 2
   b) 1, 4
   c) 2, 3
   d) 1, 4
   e) 3, 4
4. Choose the WRONG answer according to the passage.
   New bill may become state law if it agrees with ___________
   1. Smokers
   2. State bodies
   3. Cigarette companies
   4. National Cancer institute
   a) 2, 4
   b) 1, 2
   c) 3, 4
   d) 2, 3
   e) 1,4
5. Write at least two adjectives describing cigarette according to the passage.
   Answer: addictive/ life-threatening/ harmful
6. Which word in the passage is closest in meaning to the phrase “cigarette industry”
   Answer: Tobacco industry