1 New Progressive College English Book III UNIT 3 Cultural Differences
课程名称 大学英语（三） 使用教材 全新版大学进阶英语 综合教程（3）
授课内容 How My Chinese Mother-in-Law Replaced My Husband Reading 1Cultural Differences: Praise(精读) Reading 2 Mandarin Madness: The Tones（泛读） 授课学时 6
教学 目的
1. Discuss the concept of cultural differences
2. Have a thorough understanding of the text contextually and linguistically 3. Master the key words and expressions in context properly 4. Become familiar with the writing of a comparison/contrast essay
教学 重点与 难点
1. Analyze the structure and grasp the main idea of Text 2. Master the key language points and grammatical structures in the text 3. Learn to write a comparison/contrast essay 4. Critical thinking
教学 方法 与 手段
1. Audio-visual method and audio-lingual method. 2. Task-based language teaching method 3. Communicative approach 4. Using CAI, PPT 5. Smart teaching (using online tools or materials)
教学 过程
1. Lead-in Activities Step 1. Warm-up activities Step 2. Discussion about cultural differences 2. Global Reading Step 1. Approaching the theme Step 2. Analyzing the text organization 3. Detailed Reading Step 1. Understanding the text in a deeper level Step 2. Learning useful expressions Step 3. Learning difficult sentences structures Step 4. Learning new words 4. Comprehending Reading 1 Step 1: Skimming the text Step 2: Explaining the difficult sentences of the text Step 3: Doing sentence translation 5. After reading Step 1. Viewing and Listening Step 2. Speaking Step 3. Assignment
作业 Assignment： 1. Read the text in Reading 2 and finish the exercises. 2. Write a comparison/contrast essay 3. Preview the next unit. 2
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: 1stPeriod: 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