Unit 2 Culture Shockby Li DanPart 1 Check the homework(10')Section C of Unit 1 Getting the best value for time1.Accordion to the passage, what are the effective leaning methods? Ask students to say the methods from memory not read the sentences.Possible answers:During class Note accurately the requirements of the homework or essays.After class Review as soon as possible after classReview regularlyReview different subject for a certain period of timeReview different subject in the best time according to your own study habit and the biological clockBefore class Preview if necessary2.After reading the passage, what practice will you make?Possible answers: put our plan into practiceDo according to the schedule, trade time not steal it.Give myself some reward if I work hard,such as a meal, a movie and so on3.Have you make a plan for this term? If you do, what is it?Yes, to remember many new words, to build a vocabulary of 4000 or 6000 to pass the CET4to attend the English Home every week to practice my oral English....4.Have you draw a table of a week to show what to do on certain time of certain time?If you have,remember to take it last to show it to your classmates, if not, try to make one!Part 2Unit 2 Culture ShockSection A(8')Word pretest: give students 5 minutes to do the exerciseAsk two students to write down the answers on the blackboard and cross the wrong answersText 1 Making a cultural change(10') Let Ss read the passage and circle the words they saw in the word protest.(5') Check the word pretest based on the long context(7') Do the reading comprehension on P.19 and check the answers, if they got the wrong answers, guide them to the related sentence in the passage.(5') Figure out the text organization.Let Ss say out the main idea of each paragraph.(8')Word- guessing on P.19Do the exercises together.Symptom: if you catcht a cold, you may have headache and cough and feel sleepy. All these are called the symptom of cold.Complain: to say bad words of sthAbraso: embraceAdd some information about the five phases.Honeymoon phase: be excited about the new environmentRejection phase: form a unfriendly feeling to the environmentRegression phase: chat with people speaking your mother tongue, eat food from home, watch video in your native language.Recovery phase, get used to the foreign country.Reverse culture shock: feel uncomfortable when go back home.(5') Word match(10') Let Ss take turns to read the sentence, correct their answers or pronunciation if necessary.(10')Do the cloze and read it together.(12') Leave 10' to students to do Section 2.When time is up, let them stop reading and check how many they have doneShow the correct answers.Explain some if Ss find rather difficult.New word introduction: peculiar (markedly different from the usual)Assignment:Do the exercises on page 21 and 22 that we haven't finished in classRead section C and do the exercise and try to retell the main idea of the passage.。
Unit 2 Culture Shock: Making a cultural changeLeading-in questions: When you leave your hometown or your parents to attend university, do you feel anxiety, loneliness, discomfort, dissatisfaction or even hostility in the new environment? What are they? How do you cope with these problems? (some suggestions?)1.What’s the target reader of this text? Or what’s the function of the text? ( Studentsstudying abroad/ to help them cope with life abroad)2.What’s the main idea of the whole text? ( It deals with the causes, symptoms, andsuggestions about culture shock. / Foreigners should make adjustments to cope with culture shock.)3.What’s the organization pattern of para.1? ( time sequence, spacial relation,comparison and contrast, example and Illustration, cause and effect?)4.What’s the relation of the sentence “Anyone who can study abroad is fortunate,but, of course, it is….” in Para.2? (transition)Reading skill: Understanding the relation within the sentence5.What’s the main idea of Para.3? What’s the topic sentence?(The sudden change and strangeness lead to cultural shock)6.1) What’s the main idea of Para.4? (Topic sentence: Foreigners experiencedifferent degrees of culture shock.)2) Guessing the meaning of “symptoms” in the sentence “The symptoms rangefrom…. o ther signs of culture shock.”?8.1) What’s the topic? and main idea of Para.5? (Topic: adjustment. Main idea:Immature and mature persons take different actions to make adjustment.)Reading skill: distinguish topic and main idea2) Para5.: Guessing the meaning of “complain” in the sentence “When thestudent meets another miserable person from the same country, … in their native language.”?9.What’s the main idea of Para.6? ( some suggestions are helpful in fighting cultureshock/suggestions for fighting culture shock)10.What’s the function o f the last paragraph? (to make conclusion)Reading skill: understanding or recognizing the communicative value (function) of sentences and utterancesSection BPassage 4: Culture shock is the confusion resulting from the distortion of the signs, rules, and regulations that govern social interaction。
