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Lesson 6 · Custom and Culture

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English · Class 9 · Unit 6

Custom and Culture

Two world readings · Permission and questions · Reporting what was asked

What we will learn

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Read about sky burials and surprising customs

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Ask for permission politely

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Form yes/no questions and short answers

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Report questions with if and whether

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Write an essay about a culture

A Sky Burial, Step by Step

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The family reaches a monastery near Tagong
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They climb to the stone slab ringed by prayer flags
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About one hundred vultures wait on the hill
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The Rogyapa carves the body with a butcher knife
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The vultures finish the corpse in fifteen minutes
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The bones are ground, mixed and thrown to the birds

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Presenter notes: Open by asking the class what a visitor to Nepal might find surprising here. Today we travel from a Tibetan mountain to a Japanese noodle shop, and on the way we learn the grammar of asking and reporting questions.