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Unit 1, Book Two
Section A Time-Conscious Americans Teaching Objectives: The unit is intended to prepare students for cultural differences and culture shock. After learning the three passages, students are suppposed to:
? realize the importance of understanding cultural differences; ? know how to adjust to a new culture;
? write a paragraph of a general statement supported by specific details and reasons;
? master the following key words and phrases: adjust, replace, budget, cope, worthy, distress, convention, obtain, account for, result in, go through, due to;
? memorize the suffixes of –ment, -ation, -tion, -sion, –ion, -ful, -less, -able and the prefix of tele-
Teaching Allotment ·1st period: Pre-reading Activities & While-reading Activities ·2nd period: While-reading Activities ·3rd period: After-reading Activities
·4th period: Text Structure Analysis and Review Teaching Procedures:
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Section A Time-Conscious Americans (4 periods) 1. Pre-teaching Activity (8 min)
Brainstorming---Ask Ss one stimulating/ lead-in question: What words, expressions or sayings can you think of when we talk about culture? (The word of time-consciousness is a lead-in point.)
Ss activity: Ss volunteer to write down the words and expressions on the Bb(blackboard).
tradition/custom/convention
norm/practice/institution festival/special days
culture literature leisure & sport
art, music religion language dress/clothes
culture shock Do as the Romans do.
diet/food lifestyle (Eg. time-consciousness)
2. While-teaching Activities
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2.1 Worksheet---Group discussion (30 minutes)
Ss are required to discuss and answer the questions in the worksheet (Handout 1) in group. Then the teacher goes through it together with the class and gives explanation on some difficult points.
Worksheet(Handout 1): Text Analysis---Group Discussion Understand the text by answering the following questions. ?
★Part 1: (Para. 1-2) Main idea---_____________________________________________ they cannot be replaced” mean? What kind of figurative language is used here? ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ♀ What does the sentence “Once the sands have run out of a person’s hourglass, Title: Time-Conscious Americans ♀ What can you infer from the title? Please write at least one topic sentence and 3 to 5 key words or phrases you predict from the title._______________________________________
★Part 2: (Para. 3-4) Main idea---In foreigners’ eyes, Americans are in a rush.
♀ In what ways do Americans show that they are often in a rush? In a store: _______________________, in a restaurant: ___________________________, drivers: _________________________, in walking streets: ________________________ ♀ In which countries do you think the ritual interaction with some tea or coffee mostly takes place?_________________________________________________ ♀ What is the culture difference between Americans and some other countries you learn from this part? _____________________________________________________________ 3
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★Part 3: (Para. 5-7) Main idea---_____________________________________________
★Part 4: (Para. 8) Main idea---Different attitude to speed between the U.S and some
2.2 Paraphrase and understand the difficult sentences (10 minutes)
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other countries. ♀ What does speed mean to Americans? __________________________________________________________________________ ♀ How do Americans save time? _________________________________________________________________________ ♀ What culture differences between America and some other countries are mentioned in this part? __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ On Line 6 “We budge it …..we also charge for it.” On Line 11 “City people …..complete their shopping.”
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