山东经济学院外语系：《21世纪大学英语》课程教学资源（PPT课件）21st Century College English Book One Unit 2：Part A Conversational Ballgames

21世纪大学英语 教学课件 21st Century College English Book One 山东经济学院外语系 CLICK

21st Century College English Book One 山东经济学院外语系 21世纪大学英语 教学课件

21st Century College english: Book I Unit 2: Part A Conversational Ballgames CLICI

Unit 2: Part A 21st Century College English: Book 1 Conversational Ballgames

Unit Two: Parta Cultural Knowledge ° Pre-reading Activity Language Points Exercises Quiz Keys

Unit Two: Part A • Cultural Knowledge • Pre-reading Activity • Language Points • Exercises • Quiz & Keys

Language culture Language is part of culture, and thus is inseparable from culture. If learning or speaking a foreign language without a knowledge of its culture, the learner or the spea ker is inevita bly influenced by his own culture which he is quite familiar with. Therefore differences in culture will become a barrier in successful communication between speakers from different countries

Cultural Knowledge • Language & Culture • Language is part of culture, and thus is inseparable from culture. If learning or speaking a foreign language without a knowledge of its culture, the learner or the speaker is inevitably influenced by his own culture which he is quite familiar with. Therefore differences in culture will become a barrier in successful communication between speakers from different countries

Cultural Knowledge Western-style and Japanese-style Conversations Western people often find it difficult to make successful conversations with Japanese people. Differences in culture are at least in part responsible for this problem. To make the point clear, the author of the text compares these two kinds of conversations to certain types of ballgames. In the authors eyes, a western-style conversation between two people is like a game of tennis while the Japanese-style conversation is like bowling

Cultural Knowledge • Western-style and Japanese-style Conversations • Western people often find it difficult to make successful conversations with Japanese people. Differences in culture are at least in part responsible for this problem. To make the point clear, the author of the text compares these two kinds of conversations to certain types of ballgames. In the author’s eyes, a western-style conversation between two people is like a game of tennis while the Japanese-style conversation is like bowling

Cultural Knowledge BOWLING GAME An indoor game in which you roll a large heavy ball along a wooden track in order to knock down a group of pins(wooden objects shaped like bottles)

Cultural Knowledge BOWLING GAME An indoor game in which you roll a large heavy ball along a wooden track in order to knock down a group of pins (wooden objects shaped like bottles)

Cultural Knowledge TENNIS Racquet a game for two people baseline foot fault or two pairs of people who service lIne linesman use rackets to hit a small soft ball backwards and厦东 ballboy rd judge BrE/ forwards over a net t judge left service right service court doubles sideline Sideline back court

Cultural Knowledge TENNIS A game for two people or two pairs of people who use rackets to hit a small soft ball backwards and forwards over a net

Pre-Reading activities Pre-Reading Discussion Pre-Listening

Pre-Reading Activities • Pre-Reading Discussion • Pre-Listening

Warming-up Activity: Case Study Carl was an employee of ail international company and hes workingeasBngHtogverd dis& 4pgiriRit四ry shorth in Japan, where most of the guests were Japan ryone was expected to entertain, even the se g an ve a song or tell a joke. All the people operative, far different from those conve arl had read about before At a meeting on the next day after the party, Car at he was at the same room, together with the people wh triD 'ed to the merriment of the evening at the party ma in mind, Carl used the meeting as any rese a proposal. After Carl brought up his prop met with a wall of silence and. even to the end of ad ever offered him any idea about his proposal. Carl totally got puzzled with the response gof jia ain"ese colleagues. But he didnt know what was wrong

Warming-up Activity: Case Study Carl was an employee of an international company and he’s working in Japan now. He’s very pleased to be invited to a party shortly after his arrival in Japan, where most of the guests were Japanese. At the party, everyone was expected to entertain, even the senior managers got up to give a song or tell a joke. All the people seemed so informal and cooperative, far different from those conventional, stuffy Japanese Carl had read about before. Read the following story and discussin pairs or groups: At a meeting on the next day after the party, Carl found that he was at the same room, together with the people who had contributed to the merriment of the evening at the party. Keeping the informality in mind, Carl used the meeting as an opportunity to present a proposal. After Carl brought up his proposal, however, he was met with a wall of silence and, even to the end of meeting, no one had ever offered him any idea about his proposal. Carl totally got puzzled with the response of his Japanese colleagues. But he didn’t know what was wrong with it

Warming-up activity Analyze and discuss: What 's the real reason leading to Carl's failure at the meeting? Your turn to decide on:. Carl failed to understand Japanese speech on informal occasions for his ill mastery of Japanese language. Carl used informal language on formal occasion(at the meeting), which upset his Japanese co-workers Carl didn't realize Japanese's different attitudes towards work (meeting and leisure(party)

Warming-up Activity Analyze and Discuss: What’s the real reason leading to Carl’s failure at the meeting? Your turn to decide on: • Carl failed to understand Japanese speech on informal occasions for his ill mastery of Japanese language. • Carl used informal language on formal occasion (at the meeting), which upset his Japanese co-workers. • Carl didn’t realize Japanese’s different attitudes towards work (meeting) and leisure(party)