Apontamentos de Inglês, 11ª Classe, unidade 3

Unit III Topic: Identities Lesson 11 Summary: Concept of identity A. Identity Identity is one's personal details (full name, date and place of birth, father's name, mother's name, etc). Identity can also be defined as being a combination of physical, cultural, social, national and personal information of someone. Look at these examples: B. Read the passage below Who are you? When you ask this question to people who are strangers to you, you probably get different answers depending on how they react to it. Some may simply answer it by telling their names, political affiliations, ethnicity, religious beliefs, nationalities, cultural manifestations, etc. For example, when I asked this question to some people who I do not know, their answers were like: 'I am a member of Renamo party', 'I am Ofélio', 'I am a Mozambican', 'I am a doctor', 'I am a Christ...