福州大学：《现代大学英语精读》课程PPT教学课件（精读B）Unit 4 Cultural Encounters

Unit 4 Cultural Encounters

1 Unit 4 Cultural Encounters

Why do you learn English?

Why do you learn English?

Get satisfaction from learning English meet people from other countries and see the world get a job using English know another culture,anther way of thinking and doing things

• Get satisfaction from learning English • meet people from other countries and see the world • get a job using English • know another culture, anther way of thinking and doing things

Culture is imbedded in language

Culture is imbedded in language

2012 London Olympic Games 9 DC华 2012

2012 London Olympic Games

A personal experience Newcastle would host nine Olympic NEWCASTLE UNITED football matches in St James'Park (name of the football stadium)

A personal experience • Newcastle would host nine Olympic football matches in St James' Park (name of the football stadium)

A personal experience had booked tickets,but had to collect them on the very day of the match ·the match-at2pm we arrived at 12am,2 hrs earlier a long queue-ticket collectors and buyers shared one queue ·got the tickets at3pm

A personal experience • had booked tickets, but had to collect them on the very day of the match • the match-at 2pm • we arrived at 12am, 2 hrs earlier • a long queue - ticket collectors and buyers shared one queue • got the tickets at 3pm

How did people react in that kind of situation? riots骚乱？ name-calling谩骂？ fighting? breaking the windows of the ticket office售票处？ patiently waiting?

How did people react in that kind of situation? riots 骚乱? name-calling谩骂？ fighting? breaking the windows of the ticket office售票处? patiently waiting?

patiently waiting

patiently waiting

Reports by BBC A long queue formed outside St James'Park ahead of the first Olympic football matches to be held at the Newcastle ground. The delay meant some missed the start of the first match,Mexico v South Korea,which ended in a goalless draw(平局，O比0). Those within sight of the ticket office,in a queue of about a thousand,had been waiting for over two hours

Reports by BBC • A long queue formed outside St James' Park ahead of the first Olympic football matches to be held at the Newcastle ground. • The delay meant some missed the start of the first match, Mexico v South Korea, which ended in a goalless draw（平局，0比0）. • Those within sight of the ticket office, in a queue of about a thousand, had been waiting for over two hours