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Unit 3 understanding each other（教案）

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Taboo

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肖年付

Teaching Aims

1

Enable students to have a general understanding of different ways of greeting each other by people from different countries.

2

Understand and respect cultural differences.

3 Learn about taboos in different cultures and understand what they can do or can’t do when they communicate with people from different backgrounds.

4 Express themselves freely by asking and answering questions using the information given in the task-based reading. Teaching keys & puzzles 1

Enable students to understand and respect cultural differences. 2

Develop student’s speaking and thinking ability. 3

How to help students organize questions according to an article about taboos in different cultures. Welcome to the unit

Step 1

Brainstorming

How do Chinese people greet each other in daily life? Eg: Have you had your breakfast/lunch/super? Where are you going? Step 2 Discussion

Look at the pictures on your book and read the captions under them. 1 How do people from different countries greet each other?

(Fill in the form) Nationality Thailand South America The Middle East Netherland

Way of greeting 2

Do you know of any other ways of greeting in English-speaking countries? （Watch the video and compare）

3 Different countries have different ways of greeting. why do people in different countries greet each other in different ways?

4 Can you think of any other cultural differences?

Table manner 、festival

Step 3 Group work ：Watch the video，then talk about the content。

According to the video, we all know that there are many cultural differences between China and western countries in lifestyles, habits, customs, fashion, religion, the attitude to difficulties and foods. aspect Time

Bath

Living

queue Food Drink

Western countries Be on ________. Have a bath in the morning. Live _________ Queue up

Like _________ food. Be fond of cola. China Be late for meetings. Have a bath in the __________. Live together. ______ the queue. Like hot food. Be fond of _______.

Old men Restaurant Attitude Walk their _______. Quiet

Be brave to face the difficulties. Take care of their grandson/daughter __________ complicated Try to _________ the difficulties. relationship __________ Step 4 Taboo

Discussion: What about an Arab and a Japanese meeting for the first time?

1

Read part B on page 43, and answer the questions below. 1 What is a taboo? (no more than 7words) 2 If a taboo is broken , how does this make you feel?(no more than 5 words)

3 How do Japanese people greet others? (no more than 14 words

2

List the taboos or customs in the text 1 If you are from India, you may not eat _________ because of religion. 2 In India , it is _________ to shake hands and give someone’s something with your left

hand. 3 In Thailand and other parts of South-East Asia, the normal greeting is a slight ____with the hands ____________together. 4 In Japan, remembers not to just put your ________ __________ in your pocket.

Step5 Group work: Take turns to ask and answer questions You want to ask your classmate about the following things. Form your questions with the right questions words first, and then find a partner to answer your questions. Answers can be found in the magazine article on page 43. Take turns to ask and answer questions. 1 Ways people in North America and the UK Greet each other

__________do people in north America and the UK greet each other? -----People in north America and the UK greet each other by _________ ____________. 2 Hand that should not be used to shake hands with or give things people from India __________hand should not be used to shake hands with or give things to people from India? ----- The ____________ hand. 3 Places where people greet one another by giving a slight bow with their hands pressed tighter. In __________ country do people greet one another by giving a slight bow with their hands pressed together? ----____________ 4 Action you should take when a Japanese gives you a business card. _______should you do when a Japanese person gives you a business card? ---You should _______ at the cards carefully. 5 reason that people from the USA don’t like crowded place. _______

do people from the USA don’t like crowded place? ------Because they feel uncomfortable. 6 meaning of the American gesture “OK” for French people. _______ does the American gesture “OK” mean to French people? -------The gesture “OK” means “zero” to the French.

Step 6

News conference(新闻发布会) According to what we got, make a news conference, choose one student as the host and the other students as reporters, you can start like this: Hello, Host, I’m a reporter from CCTV. Firstly, I heard that you traveled many countries and learnt about the customs and taboos in different countries, but now I want to ask you some questions. Q: How do people in North America and the UK greet each other? A：They greet each other by shaking hands. Step 7 Homework Surf the internet to find further information about cultural differences.