67 B1+ | 6. Klasse | Unit 04: It’s traditional 0 world 5 1 6 2 7 3 8 4 9 Does your family have a special celebration? Write about how it started and why you like it. Download the complete article. You can use paragraphs (C) and (D) as a model. Adjective suffixes -ed and -ing Read this text about an Austrian tradition and choose the correct adjective. LANGUAGE 2 Word formation How many new words can you make by adding prefixes and suffixes? 1 special 2 celebrate 3 terror 4 invent 5 familiar 6 believe LANGUAGE 3 “Cultural differences between countries are such an (1) interested / interesting topic. I could listen to people talking about this for hours and it would never get (2) bored / boring. If you don’t believe that culture and traditions are really (3) fascinated / fascinating, you should watch the famous interview in which the Austrian-born actor Christoph Waltz explains the Austrian Krampus tradition to the American talk show host Jimmy Fallon. In the video, Waltz describes how (4) frightened / frightening Krampus looks with his sheepskin and horns and how (5) terrified / terrifying children are that he will beat them with his stick. Jimmy Fallon seems (6) amazed / amazing by Christoph Waltz’s (7) amused / amusing explanation. In return, he then tries to explain the American tradition of “Elf on the Shelf” to Waltz, but Waltz just replies that compared to the (8) horrified / horrifying Krampus, the elf is just a (9) bored / boring wimp. It’s really (10) entertained / entertaining to listen to the two men making jokes, but there is a serious message, too: the traditions that we are used to can seem (11) shocked / shocking to an outsider, and this can sometimes make us feel (12) embarrassed / embarrassing. Still, I’ll never get (13) tired / tiring of hearing about traditions in other cultures.” Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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