Lesson 8 A Universe of Thought教学设计模板

Unit 8 Culture Shapes Us 靖远县北湾镇中堡学校

王婧

Lesson 3 Knowledge 1．To learn about different manners in different countries. 2．To learn to use "though" and "although" in adverbial clause.

1．To know about different country has different manners and Teaching Aims

Ability try to be polite. 2．To be polite and cultured while going abroad or being with foreigners.

Emotion To help the students understand the world better and behave better. Important and difficult points Teaching Procedures

Lead-in warm up and To learn about different manners in different countries. To learn to use "though" and "although" in adverbial clause. Content Aims T: Look at these pictures. They describe cultures in different countries. Try to divide them into two parts.

Motivate the Ss.

Students Ⅰ．Listen to the first two paragraphs and answer the questions How long has Wu Zhou lived in Canada? Listening Reading and Why doesn't he feel Canadian? Ⅱ．First-reading 1．Read the passage and match the behaviors with the correct country. can understand better through listening reading.

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Get know about content key information 2．Read the passage, find out the topic sentence and then finish the chart with the group members. Topic sentence: Understanding cultural differences really helps us to understand each other, live together and work together.

being praised asking ages offering a seat having meal with guests paying for meals giving tips to more the and about lesson.

Make students the China

Canada

understand the text better.

Ⅰ．Have a memory test about the text! (Team work) Give Ss different parts of the sentences, they should finish the Deal with exercises the sentences first and then try to make them together to get the and test the whole sentences. Practice students' (We can give different groups different parts of it, and mastery about then let them to share it together and make the whole passage. the knowledge the Or we can give all to each group, but each student only and has parts of it, they should finish their parts first and then make different the whole passage. We can have a competition among the manners groups.)

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between China

and Canada.

Ⅱ．Adverbial clause with "though" and "although". 1．Read the sentences again and pay attention to the underline words. (1)Though Wu Zhou has lived in Canada for 23 years, he still doesn't feel Canadian. (2)Although Canadian culture is different from Chinese culture, he has many good friends in Canada. (3)In China if someone praises you, you should be modest, but in Canada you should just say "Thanks".

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Summarize the using of and "though"

"Although/ though" and "but" are used when there is a "although". contrast between two objects. You shouldn't use "but" and "although" together. 2．Finish the Exercise Two on Book T: Do you know any table manners? Extensive reading

Deal with the exercises. Students can get more table manners

with extensive reading. Practice talking about different cultures.

T: Read the item and list the Dos and Don'ts Table Manners for Children Dos Don'ts

Talk about other manners they know in different countries. First they write down what they know on the paper, then share them with other groups.

E.g.:

Discussion

From discussion students

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can

know more about different cultures. This will help them to do better with others.

1．Make a project about different manners in one of the countries yoHomework u'd like to travel to. 2．Give us a report about it next time! 3．Finish the exercises on Book

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