新进阶3 综合Unit 3

New Progressive College English Book III UNIT 3 Cultural Differences

Unit 1 Cultural Differences

1. Teaching Objectives:

Students will be able to

A. have a thorough understanding of the text contextually and linguistically

B. illustrate the concept of cultural shock by giving examples

C. learn languages, e.g. words, phrases, difficult structure

D. become familiar with the writing of a comparison/contrast essay

2. Time Allotment:

1st Period: Lead-in Activities (Warm-up activities; Discussion about cultural differences) 2nd Period: Global-reading (Text: Approaching the theme; analyzing the text organization) 3rd Period: Detailed reading (Understanding the Text A in a deeper level, analyzing difficult sentence structures)

4th Period: Detailed reading Activities (Learning new words, summarizing good usage) 5th Period: Comprehending Reading 1 (Skimming the text, explaining the difficult sentences of the Text, doing sentence translation))

6th Period: After-reading Activities (Viewing and Listening; Speaking; Assignment)

3. Teaching Procedures:

3.1 Lead-in Activities

Step 1. Warm-up activities

The teacher introduces the topic to the class by asking if they can give any example of how Chinese and non-Chinese behave or think differently in life.

Step 2: Discussion about cultural differences

The teacher explains the pictures in Opener that illustrate the differences between the Westerner and Chinese in their perspectives on different issues. The teacher asks Ss to look at the pictures and discuss the differences in pairs with the aid of the questions that follow. The teacher has different pairs report to the class their discussion on the pictures, one pair for one picture.

Method: Using task-based language teaching method, communicative approach.

3.2 Global reading

Step1. Approaching the theme

The teacher introduces the topic of the text by explaining the cultural shocks the author experienced after the birth of her daughter and her mother-in-law's fulltime presence in her family. Before moving on to the author's account, The teacher explains to Ss the text can roughly be divided into six parts.

Method: PPT; communicative approach.

Step2. Analyzing the text organization

The teacher guides Ss to explore the text by asking them to work on the table in Text Organization and do the task in Digging into detail.

Then students should sum up the differences of views between the author and her mother-in- law on matters described in the text.

Method: skimming and scanning, communicative approach