Task(1): Writing a letter to explain cultural misunderstandings: Skills building 1 and 2优秀教学设计说课稿

M6 Unit 3

Understanding each other

Task Teaching aims: 1.

To improve the students’ listening and writing skills.

2.

To help the students to write a letter of apology. 3.

To help the students understand the cultural differences . Teaching important and difficult points: 1. How to improve the students’ listening and writing skills

2. How to understand the cultural differences

Teaching methods: Practice, listening and speaking. Teaching procedures and ways: Step1 Lead-in Ask students to enjoy two videos about Chinese weddings and Western weddings and answer some questions. 1.What do you see in the two videos? 2. Can you tell the differences between the two weddings? 3. Please draw a conclusion from the two videos. There re cultural differences among countries.

Step 2 Listening Suppose your school has some visitors from abroad. Your headmaster asked you and your classmate to show the guests around. Something puzzled you during the trip. Listen to the conversation between you and your classmate, and complete your diary entry below. Show some tips before listening. (1).Browse the text first to understand the subject of the text. (2).Try to guess the words that might be used to fill in the blanks. (3).Look for clues in the sentences and words. (4).Decide if it is content words or grammar words that you are listening for. Part A Now listening! 6 May Had a great day yesterday. We showed (1)__________ visitors around Beijing. They seemed to enjoy it although there were some (2)__________ incidents.One man called Mr Singh looked very (3)__________ when I put out my left hand to (4)___________ with him. In the restaurant, we ordered a real feast, but he would not eat the black pepper (5)__________.Mr Takashi enjoyed the Forbidden City and asked so many questions. He spent lots of money on (6)__________. I have no idea

what

he will do with them all and it took up a lot of time. He seemed to give out a lot of (7)_____________ and got a bit upset when my classmate did not go through the proper procedure and just put it in his pocket without looking at it. He kept making an (8)____ sign and my classmate and I thought it was a request, but just did not know what he wanted.Finally we went to the Summer Palace. There was a boat we could go on but we got held up as Mr Hudson remarked that the boat was too(9)__________. I thought there was lots of (10)__________. However, showing visitors around is a great way to improve our English and hopefully we can do it again next year. Part B Listen to a teacher, who has travelled to the USA and Japan. Fill in the blanks. ●People from the USA feel_______________

when people stand too close to them. ●In Japan, giving ______ is very important. ●The ‘OK’ sign is a positive sign in _______.

●In Japan, the ‘OK’ sign is a request for

_____________.

Step 3 Discussion Besides gestures, can you think of other things that have different meanings in different countries?

Step 4

Task-based Reading Finish the task-based reading according to the passage in the book

What is taboo? ●a (1)______ action that is not allowed ●often connected to (2)______ ●including eating certain foods, contact between people and (3)______ language Example not eating (4)______ in India Countries Different(5)______ or customs North America and the UK greeting each other with a firm (6) ______ Thailand and other parts of South-east greeting others with a slight bow with Asia palms (7)_______ together (8)_______ It’s impolite to shake hands or give someone things with your left hand. Japan ●greeting by (9)_______ and giving out business cards ●getting upset if people don’t look at the cards (10)_______

Step 5

An interview

After watching a short video and consider a question:What are the correct attitudes towards

Cultural differences?

Suppose your foreign friend Mike came to your

home to have dinner with you. Situation 1: After he ate some crabs(螃蟹), you prepared some tea for him to wash hands. However, he drank it. You…

Situation 2: After dinner, you chatted with each other.He said “Chinese are really diligent(勤奋的).”You said proudly, “Of course！

How do you know this?”He answered, “I saw many signs in the street ,saying ‘早点’

to urge people not to be late.”

You …

Situation 3: When talking about your work, you told Mike those days you were very busy and worked 12 hours a day. Mike said “ You worked like a dog.” You …(“working like a dog” means working hard.)

Step 6 Debate

With the development of the communication between China and Other countries, Chinese gradually accept something from other cultures. Take festivals for example, the westerners celebrate Christmas to welcome the new year while Chinese celebrate The Spring Festival. However, more and more Chinese regard Christmas as an important festival and celebrateit with enthusiasm, which causes muchdebate in society. (Divide the whole class into 4 groups)

Step 7 Homework: Write a letter of apology to the three foreign visitors to explain misunderstandings.