Learning About Other Cultures

What are we learning today?

You will learn how to compare Kazakhstan and Britain. You will say what is the same and what is different.

Explanation

• Reading helps you learn about other cultures.
• In Kazakhstan, people love music. The national instrument is the dombra.
• Young people have dombra parties in streets and parks.
• Akyns are folk singers and poets. This tradition is very old.
• Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. He wrote 56 stories about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.

Examples

1. In Kazakhstan, people play the dombra.
2. In Britain, people read Sherlock Holmes stories.
3. What is the same? What is different?

Remember!

• Say what you learned.
• Do not say that one culture is better.

Check yourself

1. What is the national instrument of Kazakhstan?
2. Where was Arthur Conan Doyle born?
3. Who are akyns?