现代大学英语 第五册 Lesson 3 教案

Lesson Three Goods Move. People Move. Ideas Move.

And Cultures Change.

Teaching hours: 6

Teaching requirements: Build the students’ vocabulary power. Help the students to get the general ideas of the text about globalization and understanding of the various aspects related to globalization; Cultivating a sense of global awareness; Build the students’ writing skills by analyzing the rhetorical device of contrast and careful choice of words.

Key points of teaching: a more perceptive understanding on globalization by learning the text; writing style analysis of the typical piece of journalistic writing

Teaching contents

1. Pre-class work

1.1 Background Information

1) Erla Zwingle: former National Geographic editor. I am a freelance journalist and have been writing for many magazines for several decades, on subjects ranging from photography to sports to people, places, and things. I have traveled from the slums of India and Sao Paulo to private clubs in Saint-Moritz, and met people from geologists studying nuclear waste storage to farmers harvesting their olives for oil. Muslims in Norway, environmental activists in Greece, art restorers in Italy—I'm used to meeting people and I love learning new things.

2) Culture: the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought; the ideas, beliefs and customs that are shared by people in a society; all the arts, beliefs, social institutions etc. characteristic of a community or a race.

Activity 1: Identify and explain what culture is. What is culture? Discuss. [Culture is a way of life shared by a group. It is a learned behavior, passed on by each generation. Culture embraces a people’s lifestyle, values, and beliefs.] Ask students to list items they think are part of culture [e.g., music, literature, art, religion, traditions, dress, food, architecture, education, government] gather information and write a definition of what culture is.

•3) Globalization refers to the increasing unification of the world's economic order through reduction of such barriers to international trade as tariffs, export fees, and import quotas. It describes the process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through communication, transportation, and trade. The term can also refer to the transnational circulation of ideas, languages, or popular culture through acculturation.

Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on