Reading(1)：Cultural differences优秀教案范文

Reading Understanding each other Aims and demands 1.

Giving the Ss a practice to improve their reading skill and enabling them to learn some basic knowledge about the cultural differences between countries. 2. To help the students to understand the text better. 3. To help the students master the use of some important language points. Teaching important points 1.To understand new words, phrases and sentence patterns in the reading passage; 2. To learn how to use them. Teaching difficult points The usage of some words, phrases and sentence patterns. Teaching Procedures Step 1: Lead-in Many people like chatting on line, especially you students. You must have many e-pals. What do you think of online chat? Do you think it is really a good way to know more things and make more friends? Have you ever experienced any funny things or awkward situations when chatting with your cyber friends? Now, we will read an Internet chat room conversation. Surely you will know all about these after you read it. Sometimes online chat does benefit us a lot. Step 2: Fast reading for general ideas Go through the passage as quickly as possible and try to find answers to the three questions in part A on Page34. Just focus on and identify the information needed to answer these questions. Answers 1. He is from Brunei. 2. He comes from UK. 3. No, they don’t. Only the Sultan and his family do.

Step 3: Detailed reading for important information.

1. Let’s read the passage again and complete Parts C1 and C2 .

Answers C1 1. Thanksgiving Day is held to celebrate the first harvest after the

European settlers went to live in the USA. 2. Turkey. 3. In the West, the polite time to open a present is when someone gives it to a person, because they like to see the person’s reaction.

4. Guests expect presents as a souvenir to remember the big day. 5. Alcohol. 6. In Brunel, you should use your thumb to point at things. 7. In both places, you should take off your shoes before going inside a house. C2 4 7 3 1 2 6 5 Step 4: Practice 1. Let’s complete Part D (Refer to the text while complete part D)

Answers D 1d 2c 3f 4g 5b 6e 7h 8a 2. Now, let’s read Ma Li’s diary about her chat room discussion. Fill in blanks with correct words. E 1)traditions 2)Thanksgiving

3)harvest 4)Europe 5)celebrate 6)weddings 7)embarrassing 8) presents 9)rude 10) thumb Step 5: Post-reading activities 1. Now let’s make up a dialogue by using the questions in Part F on Page 37. Work in pairs for a few minutes and then present your dialogue to the whole class. 2. There are also cultural differences in different English-speaking countries. For example: Americans enjoy a good sense of humour; the British take a somewhat different view and believe a formal approach is the best way; the Australians are more informal and straightforward, often enjoying a good laugh and calling their close friends or new acquaintances by their first names. 1. Discussion: What might happen if people had no idea of other countries’ cultures?

Do you think it might result in embarrassment on inconvenience? What do you think about “culture shock”?

2. Do you know more information about cultural differences? Ø In most countries, nodding your head up and down means ‘yes’.

Ø In some parts of Greece and Turkey, however, this motion can mean ‘no’.

Ø In South-east Asia, nodding your head is a polite way of saying ‘I’ve heard you.’

Ø In the United Stated, when someone puts his thumb up, it means ‘Everything is all right.’ However, in Sardinia of Italy and Greece, the gesture is insulting and should not be used there. Step 1 lead-in Offer some pictures related to some cultural differences, ask the Ss to collect information about different culture characters. Step 2 Fast reading Read dialogue fast and answer some questions on the book. 1. Which country is Waled from? 2. Where does Peter come from? 3. Does everyone in Brunei wear yellow? Step 3 Detailed reading Ask the Ss to read the dialogue carefully and answer some detailed questions. 1. What does thanksgiving celebrate? 2. What is eaten at thanksgiving? 3. In the West, when is the polite time to open a present? Why? 4. What can you not drink at a wedding in Brunei? 5. What should you do instead of pointing with your first finger in Brunei? 6. What customs do Chinese cities and Brunei have in common? After that, try to find the missing information in the table. People from Different Different reactions different countries situations The American / About The American: the British Thanksgiving talk much about Thanksgiving the British: know nothing about it The American/ About the British presents The British/ the Italian

About the wedding Pointing to others

People from Brunei/the About British the wedding Step 4 Language points Step 5 Assignments: 1. Keep in mind the useful words, phrases and sentence patterns and know how to use them. 2. Write a short passage about differences between the southerners and the northerners in China. Step 6：Language Points Vocabulary

Useful expressions Sentence patterns 1. He gets quite excited whenever it comes to this topic. 2. If you had joined the chat room ten minutes ago, you would have known what we were talking about! 3. Should you come to Brunei, you would have to take off your shoes….

Step 7: Homework 1. Finish Parts A1 and A2 on page 116 in the workbook. 2. Prepare the part Word Power.