Reading(1)：Cultural differences特级教师教学实录

M6U3 Reading

Cultural differences Teaching aim: To improve the students’ ability of reading

Help the students to understand cultural differences and learn to deal with it properly. Teaching important point: Give the students some questions to answer. Teaching difficult point: How to improve the students’ ability of reading

Teaching methods: Fast-reading can help the students to get the general idea of the article Careful-reading can help the students to get the details of the text Teaching aid: The blackboard, the multimedia, the tape recorder

Teaching procedures: Step 1 Lead-in

Play part of the video of Gua Sha Treatment. This is a movie about the differences between American and Chinese cultures. Thus it is a lead in the article.

Let students have a fast reading and give the main idea of the text. Step 2: Fast-reading What are cultural differences? Finish the table.

How do they help Ma Li to do homework about cultural differences?

How many examples do they show on cultural difference?

What are they?

Step 3

Careful-reading Ask the students to read the text again carefully, and try to finish examples of cultural differences.

Step 4 Revision

Ask students to make a summary of cultural differences in the article and tell us why there are cultural differences.

Step4 Discussion: Share my experiences and: tell me whether I experienced cultural differences in the cases. / suggest some proper ways to deal with them.

Step 5 Creative thinking Since cultural differences are so common and important, how can we deal with them properly?

Respect different cultures

Overcome fear or shyness Build confidence when communicating

Keep an open mind to different ideas

Make full preparations beforehand When in Rome, do as the Romans.

Step 6 Further study Ways to avoid or overcome culture shocks learning English well watching TV or seeing films reading books exchanging each other’s cultures with foreigners getting information through the Internet going abroad for traveling or for further education

Step 7 Homework

Write a short report about cultural differences, explaining what cultural differences are and how we can properly deal with them( 2 ways) ?

Practice reading the text and underline useful phrases in the passage.