1. What are your plans for Christmas?

　　A: "I will spend it with family, which is tradition, and this year I have a new family to spend it with because I just got married."

　　B: "I will be spending it with my family and my girlfriend who I plan to marry."

　　C: "I'll be inviting some friends over to the house and cooking lots of Philippine-inspired foods and exchanging gifts."

　　2.Would you still go to New York City for a vacation despite the Sept. 11 attacks?

　　A: "Yes. I've never gone there before and it's one of the main tourist attractions in the States, so it's a city that I still want to see."

　　B: "Yes. I think the danger is gone now, or else it's everywhere in every city, so there's no reason not to go to New York."

　　C: "Yeah, I would. I don't think anything else is going to happen there."

　　1.From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, there are currently 190 countries on the globe. Vatican City is the smallest. It has less than 900 citizens. China has the largest population in the world. More than one billion people call this country home.

　　What country do you want to visit most? Why? What do you want to see there?

　　2.The oldest known song is called a shaduf chant(n.吟颂、吟咏). It has been sung for thousands of years by irrigation(n.灌溉) workers along the Nile River. The oldest known harmonized(a.配有和声的) music still performed today is the English song Sumer IsIcumenIn. It dates from around 1240.

　　What is the first song you can remember? Who sang it to you?