TAPESTRY 3 (textbook) [week 2, 2008 - Thor May]
Theme 2 - "Cross cultural communication"
- Polite & rude speech ⁄ Culture shock ⁄ Bilingual interaction
Extra material by Thor :
1. Listening test 1, based on last week's a) shoe fix story; b) perfect teacher dialogue.
2. The concept of presupposition (formal & cultural).
3. Dialogue for intonation, learning & performance, colloquial English : "The Tourist from Hell".
4. The Olympic Experience : cultural shock for overseas visitors Vs cultural shock for Chinese people. (discussion)
5. Assignment for next week : Group work : construct a "comedy of errors" skit involving international Olympic visitors and local Chinese people.
Tapestry 3 Chapter 2 Exercises
6. [Tapestry based, p.31] : Ethnic makeup of China - problems & advantages (discussion)
7. [Tapestry based, p.32] : Direct Vs Subtle speech - English examples; Chinese regional differences? (discussion)
8. [Tapestry based, p.37] : Vocabulary for "culture shock" (quiz orally)
9. [Tapestry based, p.38] : "Handling cultural shock" [short text] - (deliver orally, quiz orally)