Reading(1)：Cultural differences名师教学视频（文字实录）

M6U3 Reading Cultural differences Teaching aims:

Knowledge aims:

1.

To help the students get a better understanding about the text by skimming and

scanning and accumulate some information about cultural differences. 2.

To help the students understand the use of examples. Ability aims: To improve the students’ reading and writing ability.

Emotion aims: To help the students form a proper attitude towards cultural differences. Teaching importance:

To help the students learn to communicate cross-culturally and put reading strategy into practice. Teaching methods: Reading, writing, discussing Teaching tools: the blackboard, multimedia Teaching procedures: Step 1: Greetings Step 2: Lead-in Different ways of greetings in different country.(两个学生表演，其他学生来猜，目的是激发他们的兴趣，调动其积极性) Brain-storm: cultural differences (通过此活动来激活学生的背景知识）

Step 3: Reading

Activity 1: Some basic information about the passage 1.

How many people are involved in this dialogue? Who are they? 2.

Where did this dialogue take place? 3.

Where do they come from? 4. What topics are mentioned in the passage?

Skim the passage and pick out the topics mentioned in the passage.

1.

Thanksgiving

2.

Eye contact 3.

Receiving present

4.

Wedding ceremonies 5.

Language 6.

Colors

7.

Take off shoes

8.

Greeting ways 9.

Pointing gestures 10. Bonfire night (前四个问题学生可运用略读策略获取答案, 从整体上对文章大意进行理解。）

5.

True or False 1 In Korea, it is believed that hens can drive bad spirits away from the wedding ceremony. 2 The bridegroom and bride have to sit in different areas at the wedding reception in Brunei. 3 People in Brunei celebrate the wedding by singing and dancing throughout the night. 4 In the UK, people take off their shoes before entering someone’s house. 5 There can be great cultural differences even between people who speak the same language. 6. Task-based reading

Cultural differences Topics In In dealing the presents ceremony

1. ________________

with Westerners , who consider it 2. _______ to open a present when given one, react 3.

__________ from the Chinese people. wedding In Korea, there is a 4. _______ hen and a rooster as a part of the wedding ceremony. Roosters are believed to drive bad spirits away and hens can 5. ________ good luck. The newly-weds are 6. _________ from each other in the wedding reception in Brunei. Alcohol is not 7. _________. In the common life of People use their 8. ________ to point. Brunei In the festival It’s appropriate to take off shoes before going inside the Bruneian house.

traditional There’s no Bonfire Night in America 9.

________ the British celebrate between it yearly. Learning about cultural differences is a good way to understand more about each other. （这两个任务需要学生仔细阅读文本并思考后作答，主要考查一些细节信息和学生的理解概括。）

利用第一空的答案，老师提出以下问题：

America and Britain 10. _____________

What’s the use of the examples? Do you know other functions of examples? （引出本课的阅读策略----- 例子的使用）

Activity 2: Act out

The students work in pairs or in groups to act out one of the topics. (此活动旨在培养学生学生用英语交流和实际运用英语的能力，同时巩固所学内容）

Activity 3: Extension

The Ss give more examples about cultures differences they are familiar with. (这部分旨在让学生联系实际，对文化差异有更深刻的理解）

Step4: Discussing and writing

Do you think it is necessary to learn about cultural differences? Why? (use an example to support your opinion) How should we treat different cultures? The Ss discuss in groups and write an essay. （该部分旨在培养学生正确的文化意识，同时正确使用本课中的阅读策略---- 例子的运用，完成写作）

Step 5: Presentation 学生展示他们的写作成果。

Homework

1.

Please search for more cultural differences. 2.

Finish the exercises part E on p37