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6 SS are required to read the text very carefully.

TIP STRIP for SS:

Read the text quickly.

Think about the writer’s purpose and attitude in writing it, as well as why a reader might want to read it, and the meaning of the text as a whole.

Read the text once again, this time much more carefully.

After the second reading, try to answer the questions, checking each time with the text.

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7 In groups of three or four, SS discuss the suggested questions.

LISTENING

8 SSwork in pairs. Before listening, they try to guess which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each question (1-5). They explain their choice.

Answers 1 C 2 B 3 A 4 A 5 D

Interviewer: Satish, you’ve married your wife twice. Can you explain why?

Satish: Yes, well my wife, Barbro, she’s Swedish and my parents, they are Gujarati Indian, and so we had two ceremonies, one to satisfy my parents’ wishes and one to satisfy her parents’ wishes.

Interviewer: How did the Swedish ceremony compare with the Hindu wedding?

Satish: Different … very different, in for example length. The Hindu wedding took seven hours, the Swedish wedding in church took maybe thirty-five, forty minutes at the most. The number of people, the Hindu wedding had up towards 800 people, the ritual was very different. In the Swedish wedding I knew what the priest was saying. I knew … I could understand every single word. Everybody was listening to what was being said by the priest. The priest would give … I was being asked to do things by the priest. The priest would give me the instructions in a language, Swedish or English, that I could understand but the Hindu priest said everything in Sanskrit, whish is a very old language, which … of which I have no knowledge whatsoever, so that was also very different.

We weren’t the center of attention in the Hindu wedding: families were meeting; we were seeing people that we hadn’t seen for a long time; perhaps future marriages were being arranged because everybody was dressed very smart, we were all of the same caste there, so there were all these aspects. And one other thing is actually timing; the Swedish wedding I had to get there to the church at five o’clock. I had to get out by a certain time, the car was going to pick us up at a certain time, etc. It was very time-oriented. The Hindu wedding, it started when it got round to starting and it carried on and it finished when it finished. There was no time element to it.

Interviewer: Of the two weddings, which was the real one for you?

Satish: I have to say that they were both because I belong to two cultures, both a Gujarati one and a Western one for what of a word and they were equally important; the first one when I married, when I got married in Sweden was something very important for my wife and her family and my Western friends; and the wedding that I had in Britain with my family there was very, very important to them.

Interviewer: Do your parents share that view?

Satish: Well, for my parents, the real wedding came when we were in Britain, when we had the Hindu ceremony. Because, for example, when people have a registered marriage according to different … according to their Government, their country, this is just seen as a bureaucratic OK, whereas the Hindu wedding is the one that counts for them.

9 SS work in groups and discuss the peculiarities of a Hindu wedding and compare it with a typical wedding in their country.

Suggested answers:

- What is the main difference between a Hindu wedding and Russian style wedding?

- There is a great difference between them for instance: the quantity of guests, hours; wedding traditions and customs.

10 SS work individually: they listen to the tape and decide if each statement is true or false.

Tapescript Stuart and I met last year. WE were both working in Birmingham, although Stuart comes from Leeds and I’m from London. We didn’t want an elaborate wedding and neither of us are particularly religious, so we got married in the registry office. Another thing is that neither of our families are very well off, and it seemed silly to go to all the expense, when you need the money to set up a new home. We just invited our parents and a couple of friends, who were the witnesses. It was all very simple. We didn’t have a reception or anything. We just had a few drinks round at our place. We didn’t even bother with a cake. We didn’t have a honeymoon, because Stuart’s just started his own business and we couldn’t afford the time.

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