Reading(1)：Cultural differencesppt课件课堂实录

M6 Unit3 Understanding each other Reading: Cultural differences ----Wuxi No.1 High School

Ling Yuchen

Teaching Analysis: This lesson is about the conversation in a chatting room and focused on the cultural differences. Therefore, trying to make students highly motivated might be the key step of this lesson. Besides, teachers are supposed to help students establish correct attitudes towards cultural differences. Teaching Aims: 1. Try to help students get acquaintance with cultural differences. 2. Try to develop students’ ability of task-based reading.

3. Try to enable students to understand the use of examples in an article.

Focal points: 1. Help students improve the cultural awareness. 2. Students are to finish the related task-based assignments so as to develop their exact reading comprehension.

Difficult points: 1. How to get students to participate the class activities actively. 2. Try to help students present their ideas on the topic. Teaching Aids: PPT Teaching procedure: Step One: Lead-in: Music: Hand in hand T: We have heard a piece of inspiring song “Hand in hand”. It is the theme song of the 1988 Olympic Games. And this summer all the world gathered in Beijing. It was reported that there were 205 nations to attend this big Games. Let’s look at

some photos. Let me introduce them for you. These students were from Britain. They went to our school to attend “Chinese Bridge Campaign”. Look, they were having a computer lesson, doing clay pots with our students, playing basketball and learning to do traditional Chinese knots. And these two were our former German teacher and French teacher. Our students were having a second language lesson. Different countries have different cultures. Let’s talk about it today. Step Two: Act out: Ask Ss to act out as the pictures show: different greetings in different countries.

(Its aim is to raise students’ motivation.) Step Three: T or F Questions: There are several T of F Questions for students to guess. They are all about different cultures. 1. Forming an “O” with the thumb and the forefinger(食指)in Japan means that we can now discuss money.

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2. Wearing gloves in Russia when shaking hands is considered polite. (F)

3. Leaving right after dinner in Central America is considered to be well-mannered as it means you’ve been well fed.

(T) 4. It is seen as polite not to accept an offer of food or drink in Persia immediately on being offered it, instead you should refuse a few times before accepting the gift.

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5. If you tell your female friend from Africa that she has put on weight during her holiday, it means she has had a good holiday and is physically healthier than when she left.

(T) 6. If you want to show your respect for an elder in Africa, do not look them directly in the eye.

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7. Keeping your hands in your pockets while negotiating(协商,谈判) in Russia is rude.

(T) (F) (F) 8. In France, dinner is commonly served at 5 pm. 9. In Brazil, purple flower is a symbol of friendship.

Step Four: Reading Comprehension: Listen to the tape and find out the answer to the question “What are MaLi, Waled, Peter talking about in the chat room?”. (Thanksgiving, presents, wedding, pointing, colors, shoes) T: An introduction of Thanksgiving.

Game Time: Can you guess the names of these traditional festivals at home or abroad? (Dragon Boat Festival, Easter, Halloween, Qingming Festival) Filling the blanks: (a table about the Reading) Task-based reading: Give the Ss two minutes to prepare and then close the books. Fill the 10 blanks. 1.

Americans attach importance to ________. (Thanksgiving) 2.

Westerners ________ the presents instantly. (open) 3.

In the UK, the guests ________ the presents. (give) 4.

In Italy, the ________ give presents. (newly-weds) 5.

The Chinese have a huge wedding ________. (banquet) 6.

In the Brunei, the _______ has to sit with women. (bride) 7.

And the guests have no ________ to drink. (alcohol) 8.

In Brunei, people point with their ________.

(thumbs) 9.

The royal color is ________. (yellow) 10.

And they wear _______ in the room. (slippers) Step Five:Group Discussion:

Originally, Christmas Day was not celebrated by Chinese people. However, more and more Chinese young people are crazy about this festival and they spend a lot of time and money on it. Do you support this change? Why?

Give some sentence patterns to Ss: •

I think the Christmas is meaningful to us because …

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In my opinion, …

is unnecessary because …

•

I don’t think it necessary to celebrate …

because …

•

I hope we can add some new contents to …

so that …

can be more colorful. •

From my point of view, Christmas should be abolished(取消) because …

Step Six: Conclusion: Culture means the total life way of people, the social legacy(遗产) the individual acquires from his group. Or culture can be regarded as that part of the environment that is the creation of man. Though we have culture shock, never mind, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. Step Seven: Homework: Make a card about festival to your classmate as a Christmas present.