Reading(1)：Cultural differences教学设计第一课时

M6 Unit 3

Understanding each other Reading

Cultural differences 常熟市梅李中学

钱国英

Teaching objectives: 1. impress students with the cultural differences mentioned in the passage and try to widen their knowledge of this topic.

2. let students understand this passage completely and meanwhile practise their listening, reading, speaking and writing abilities.

3. try to make students master the important words, phrases and sentences in the passage.

Teaching difficulties: to master the important words, phrases and sentences in the passage Teaching tools: blackboard, chalk, ppt, recorder Teaching methods: task-based teaching method, grammar-translation method, direct method Teaching procedures: Step Ⅰ: Pre-reading(Lead-in)

(3 minutes) Ask students to do a quiz on cultural differences. 1. 4 simple T/F Questions. 1)In Western countries, it’s unusual to give tips.

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) 2)Westerners tend to avoid using13.

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) 3)Usually, one should never give a clock as a gift in China.

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) 4)You can pass something to an older person with one hand in Korea. (

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2. Show students some pictures of people wearing different traditional clothes and ask them to tell where those people come from according to their clothes.

3. Show students the six pictures about different ways of greeting in different countries in Welcome to the uint and ask them to match the pictures with the countries. Then ask them how people greet each other in China.(by shaking hands)

Step Ⅱ: While-reading

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Fast-reading (2 minutes)

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Ask students to go through the dialogue quickly and then answer the following two questions: 1).Where did this dialogue take place?

(on the internet) 2). How many people are involved in this dialogue? Who are they? Where do they come from? (3 peaple are involved in the dialogue. They are Mali from Beijing,China, Waled from Brunei /bru:`nai/, and Peter from the UK)

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Show students a world map with the location of Brunei and some pictures about this country.

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Detaided-reading

⑴ Ask students to read out the first two paragraphs together and find out why Ma Li wants to talk to other people.

(2 minute)

(Because Ma Li wants to accumulate some more information for her homework on cultural differences.)

⑵ Ask students to go over the rest of the dialogue quickly and spot the topics that are mentioned in this dialogue. (3 minutes) 1. Thanksgiving 2. eye contact 3. present 4. weddings in Italy and in the UK. 5. body language 6. weddings in Brunei 7. colour of clothes 8. Chinese people greet each other by shaking hands. 9. shoes

10. using finger to point (1,3,4,6,7,9,10) So the passage –apart from the first two paragraghs- can be divided into 7 parts describing the 7 topics above. And students will be asked to look at the seven topics one by one

⑶ Thanksgiving(3 minutes) Invite one girl to read this part. Then show students two pictures of Thanksgiving and ask them 3 questions. 1) In which country is Thanksgiving celebrated, the USA or the UK?

(USA) 2)What does Thanksgiving celebrate?

( The first harvest after the settlers from Europe went to live in the USA.) 3)When is Thanksgiving?

(The 4th Thursday of November)

Show students more pictures of Thanksgiving, turkey and Thanksgiving parade.

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present (3 minutes) Ask students to listen to the tape of this part and answer the following questions. 1)

What do people in the UK do if they are given a present? ( They will open the present the moment it is given ) 2)

What about the Americans? (They will do the same) 3)

Why? ①

It’s

_____ and _____

not to open it_________. (rude, strange, immediately) ②

They want to see ________________. (the person’s reaction)

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What about in China? (We don’t open it immediately. But for some people, things are changing. They are influenced by western cultures and they open the presents immediately)

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weddings in Italy and in the UK (3 minutes) Ask students to listen to the tape of this part and find out the similarities and differences of weddings in these two countries. 1) similarity: _____________. (both throw confetti)

Show a relevant picture.

2) differences: in Italy - _______________. (The newly-weds are expected to give their guests presents as a souvenir.) In the UK-_______________. (The guests are expected to give presents to the newly-weds. ) Show some pictures of traditional western weddings in the church.

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weddings in Brunei (4 minutes) Invite a boy to read this part. Then ask students to fill in the blanks. Wedding traditions in Brunei: A man has to ___________. (sit with the bridegroom and the other men A lady and ______ have to ___________. (the bride, sit in a different area)

______,______,_____ and ______ but ________ are served.

(food,soft drinks,tea, coffee ,no alcohol)

_____________ for hours

(play the drum)

Show students 3 pictures of the wedding ceremony of the prince of Brunei and an ordinary girl. And some other pictures of tradional weddings in different countries, including weddings in old China and modern China.

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other customs in Brunei, including colour of clothes, shoes, using finger to point (3 minutes) Ask students to read this last part out by groups. Groups 1&2 read as Ma Li, and groups 3&4 read as Waled. And then answer the following questions. 1) Why do they use thumb to point? (It’s rude to point with the first finger.)

2) Why can’t they wear yellow? (It’s the royal colour for the Sultan and his family.) 3.) What should they do before going into someone’s house? ( take off the shoes.)

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Step Ⅲ. Post-reading activities

1. Matching (1 minute) Match the words with its meanings. Ask students one by one.

accumulate

a thing to help you remember a place unbelievable

beyond belief or understanding embarrassing

gather together, collect newly-weds

a lady who has just been married souvenir

make it clear to understand clarify

cause a feeling of shame or awkwardness participate

people who have recently got married

bride

take part, get involved

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T/F questions. (3 minutes) Ask students to tell whether the sentence is true or false and if it’s false, correct it. 1).Peter has to do a piece of homework on cultural differences. 2).Americans and the British people have the same culture. 3).The British people eat the huge turkey during Thanksgiving. 4).If you get married in the UK, you will expect a present. 5).Both Americans and British people open the presents the moment they receive them. 6).In Brunei people point with their first finger. 7).Yellow is the royal color for the Sultan and his family. 8).In a wedding in Brunei, you can expect some alcohol.

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Important phrases (4 minutes) Ask students to tell the English phrases according to the Chinesse meanings one by one. And then read the English and Chinese out together. 1.文化差异

cultural differences

2.获得一些信息

accumulate

some information

3.和…有关

be to do with 4.当谈到

when it comes to…

5 .为了庆祝

in celebration of 6.毕竟

after all 7.结婚

get married 8.说得更清楚些

to clarify 9.参加

participate in

10.婚礼招待会

a wedding reception 11.食指

the first finger 12.适应

adjust to…(prep) 13.在期末典礼上

at the end-of-term ceremony

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14.下线了

log off 15.聊天室

chat room 16.脱下

take off

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Fill in the blanks. (5 minutes) Give students 2 minutes to do it and then ask them to tell the answers one by one. After this, read it out together.

Ma Li has to do her homework on1______differences. So she goes online to chat with others and find some 2__________she needs.

She gets to know English and American people have 3__________

differences in culture even though they both speak English. For example,

The

British may be 4_____when Americans talk about thanksgiving and the huge 5________ they eat.

There are different 6______ in the West and the East when they get presents. Westerners like to open them as soon as they get them. Though there are

7_______

between wedding 8________ in the west, there are also differences between different western countries. In Italy, guests expect to get presents from the 9________while

the guests are expected to give presents to them in the UK.

In Brunei, a male guests has to sit with the 10 _________and the other men and a 11 _____ guest has to be with the bridge and the other women in a different area. What’s more, if you go to Brunei, you should point with your 12 _____ instead of your index finger. You

shouldn’t wear 13______ either.

Appropriate 14 ______ is always welcome. So remember when in Rome, do as the 15_______ do.

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Some important sentences(5 minutes) 1) He gets quite excited whenever it comes to this topic. (Line 13) when it comes to sth当提到…

Translate the sentence into Chinese:

________________________________. (不管什么时候只要提到这个话题他都变得很兴奋。) 当谈到这个周末去野餐时，大部分孩子都很兴奋。

Translate it into English using this phrase: ___________________________________. (When it came to having a picnic this weekend, most of the kids got very excited.)

2) It’s time for me to log off. (Line 59)

It’s time for sb. to do sth.=It’s time that sb. did/should do sth. This sentence can be rewritten as: __________________________(It’s time that I logged off.) __________________________(It’s time that I should log off.)

3) Well, if you had jioned the chat room ten minutes ago, you would have known

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what we were talking about. (Line 20)

If …had done…,

…would have done…

和将来事实相反的虚拟语气

If he had been there, it wouldn’t have happened. Translate it into Chinese: ________________________________________________. (如果当时他在这的话，这件事就不会发生了。)

如果我当时听了你的建议的话，就不会犯这个错误了。

Translate it into English:________________________________________________. （If I had taken your advice, I wouldn’t have made this mistake.）

Step Ⅳ. Homework （1 minute）

1. Read the passage again, and write a summary of

this article on cultural differences in about 120 words. 2.

Visit the website to get more information about cultural differences.

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