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Cultural Difference Warm-up activity Background information questions: 1.What is culture shock? 2. What misconception do many people have of culture shock? 3. What happens at each stage of culture shock? Warm-up activity Word preparation: exchange student /weird / stuff / homesick / depressed / in reverse /severe / associate…with /have something in common with /for good / permanently / hiking / have a picnic / sculpture / pottery / weaving / rug / reservation Listening Strategy Understanding Reductions The difference between the long forms and the short forms: LONG FORM REDUCTION She made a lot of friends. lot of →lotta He had lots of problems. lots → lotsa He wasn’t able to relax. to → ta Could you help me with this? could you →cudja I’ll see you later. you → ya Do you know her? her →er Do you know him? him → im I was hurt and angry. and → n SHORT FORM She made a lotta friends. He had lotsa problems. He wasn’t able ta relax. Cudja help me with this? I’ll see ya later. Do you know er? Do you know im? I was hurt n angry. Listening Strategy Write the long forms of the conversations : 1. A: Do you know ? B: Yeah. She’s in my history class. A: introduce me to ? 2. A: I’m sick tired of feeling like a foreigner. B: I know what you mean. There are a ______ problems in the beginning, but things will get better. 3. A: Where’s Bill? Didn’t you invite ? B: Yeah, but he wasn’t able come. keys 1. her; Could you; her 2. and; lot of 3. him; able to (pronounced: er, cudja, er; n, lotta; im, ableta) Listening Tasks Talking about Culture Shock I. Listen for the main idea Person 1 In general, did the speaker have a good or bad experience in Canada? Person 2 In general, did she have a good or bad experience in the United States? Person 3 In general, did she have a good or bad experience in the United States? II. Listen for details Person 1: Where is he from? How did he feel when he arrived in Canada? What happened when he went back to his country? Person 2: Where is she from? Who did she associate with? Why ? What happened when she went back to her country? Person 3: Where is she come from? What was her initial (first) experience in U.S.A. ? What were two experiences that influenced her decision? What did she decide to do? Keys: 1.He is from Russia. / He was excited. /He got depressed when he went back to his country. 2. She is from Mexico. / She associated only with people from her country. / Because they were all from the same culture. /When she went back to her country, it wasn’t as great as she remembered. She felt it wasn’t really her home anymore. So after only one month, she turned around and came back to the United States. 3. She is from Japan. / Everything was difficult in the beginning. / She had friends there and she loved Indian art, which influenced her decision. /She decided to stay in the United States and go to college, with a major in American Indian Studies. III. Discussion: Do you have any friends who have experienced culture shock similar to these people? If so, what were their experiences? IV. Language learning: --Present and past participles as adjectives: Present participles show the cause: Past participles show the effect: eg: English is a confusing language. I’m really confused. The homework was boring. The students were bored. --Group discussion: use participles and other adjectives. 1. If you are living abroad, how did you feel when you first came to this country? What seemed strange to you? What things did you notice? 2.How do you feel now? Which stage of culture shock are you in? 3.Is it possible to be in two stages at the same time? Is it possible to stay in one stage forever? Further development Entry 1 ……The city, in the rain, is a gray smudge against the hills. Strange. In the summer, everything is bright white, and the tourists run around, laughing and taking pictures. But now, in winter, there are no tourists, and the whitewashed buildings are streaked with gray. The streets are empty. People huddle indoors. They peer sadly out of windows, waiting, waiting. What are they waiting for? I don’t know. An occasional cat slips wetly from under a parked car and slinks into a doorway. The cat watches and waits, waits. But nothing happens. I think the rain will never stop. ─ from the journal of a U.S. student living in Europe Further development Entry 2 …… I’ve decided to cook a big chicken soup. This sounds easy, but it’s not. My problem is finding a chicken. Back in Vancouver, all the chickens are in plastic at the supermarket. They’re all cleaned and cut up. But here, I can’t find any that look like that. Here, the only chickens that I’ve seen are at the outdoor marketplace, and they’re ALIVE. What am I going to do? How do people buy chickens here? I don’t understand. Do I have to take a LIVE chicken home with me and kill it in my kitchen? Oh! I can’t do that. Maybe the chicken man at the marketplace will kill it for me. But that doesn’t seem much better. I don’t want to ride home on the bus with a DEAD CHICLEN. I guess I’ll have to get out my dictionary and practice: “ Please take off the head, take off the feathers, and cut it up for me.” ─ from the journal of a Canadian student living in Asia Further development Read and answer: 1. What is the mood of the first student? Why might the student feel like this? Do you sometimes feel like this? 2. What is the second student’s problem? Have you ever had any small problems like this in another country? 3. What stage of culture shock are these people in? Why do you think so? Video Tuning In: Britain’s Changing Society Vocabulary in the Video mutating : changing reserved : not showing emotions to loosen up : to relax, be natural, show emotions outdoing : doing something in a “bigger” way than other people do it egalitarian : equal quivering : shaking grieving : suffering sadness to dictate : to tell someone what to do or how to feel renowned : famous climate : atmosphere Video Tuning In: Britain’s Changing Society 1.Watch the video the first time without sound. What kind of a change in British culture do you think the program discusses? 连接 2. Watch the video again, this time with sound. Then answer these questions. Work with a partner. 连接 -- In what way has British society recently changed? -- What are two possible explanations for this change, according to people in the video segment? Video Tuning In: Britain’s Changing Society 3. discussing the following two questions in a small group: -- In the video, one person gives his opinion: “It would be sad if the world move to some sort of McDonald’sizaton of emotions. I think that national cultures are still there, but they’re mutating.” What does he mean by a “McDonald’s-ization of emotions”? What are some examples of cultures that are “mutating”? -- At the end of the segment, the reporter concludes by saying that the British now “wear their hearts on the sleeves.” What do you think this idiom means? Guess from the context of the whole story. Passage: Wasted Food, Discovered Souls Vocabulary bulk/ toss/ a slight tug/ indignation/agrarian-based ethos /astound/ assimilation /frugality /excursion /stoop /grandeur Passage: Wasted Food, Discovered Souls Keys: 1. 1) d, 2) g, 3) j, 4) e, 5) c, 6) a, 7) k, 8) i, 9) b, 10) h, 11) f. 2. His experience with his cousin made him realize how assimilated he has become and that he has lost his old identity. 3. (1) a , (2) b, (3) a, (4) b, (5) b. Passage: Wasted Food, Discovered Souls Listen and summarize Andrew Lam’s commentary . Discussion: (1). In your native country, how do people get rid of things? Do they make donations? Do they have garbage or yard sales? Do they sell things at flea markets? Do they recycle? (2). What do you think this title means: “wasted Food, Discovered Souls”? (3). Try to explain what culture shock is. What influence can it have on people and how to adapt to it? Passage: Wasted Food, Discovered Souls (4). Andrew Lam’s cousin was shocked by the waste he saw as he took one of his first walks around San Francisco. What were some of the cultural shocks you experienced when you first arrived in the United States or some other places? Were you “ stressed out in a strange land” when you first arrived? 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