The Green Banana by Donald Batchelder

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The Green Banana by Donald Batchelder
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Cross-cultural education

• What is culture?
• The word culture comes from the Latin root colere
  (to inhabit, to cultivate, or to honor).
• In general, it refers to human activity.

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• experiential learning
• a conceptual framework for experiential
  cross-cultural education
• a collection of essays on practical applications
  of these ideas

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• Everyone has culture. What does our culture teach
  us?
• language
• behaviors
• rules
• expectations
• the way we understand others
• the way we make decisions
• the way we make choices
• what is real
• what is healthy
• what is possible and what our limitations are

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• Ethnocentrism Cultural Chauvinism
  Relativism Racism

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Brazil
With an estimated 170 million inhabitants, Brazil
has the largest population in Latin America and
ranks sixth in the world.
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culture in Brazil

• The glitzy Carnival attracts millions of people
  to Brazil every year when people loosen up their
  hip joints, dance the worlds most erotic dances,
  wear the worlds smallest bikinis and party the
  worlds longest party. Preparations start 3
  months in advance, culminating in 2 weeks of
  balls and the carnival parade in February.

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People in Brazil

• Brazilians are very friendly, outgoing and
  ethnically diverse, composed from Amerindians,
  African slaves, the Portuguese and other
  Europeans.

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Travel in Brazil
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Introduction to the Text

• The text is taken from Beyond Experience An
  Experiential Approach to Cross-cultural Education
  edited by Donald Batchelder and Elizabeth G.
  Warner in 1974. When the second edition of the
  book was published in 1993, Batchelder explained
  his view on cross-cultural education

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• The green banana a symbol of hidden treasures
  from every culture

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• Plot my experience in a small
• Brazilian village and what I concluded
• Setting a small village in the central
• area of Brazil
• Protagonists an American traveler
• (I), several Brazilian people

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Theme of the story

• We should respect all civilizations in the world.
  Wisdoms are to be discovered with an open mind to
  other cultures.

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Structure of the text

• Part 1 (paras. 14 ) aboutThe story of the
  green bananas.
• Part 2 (paras. 5 8 ) about What the author
  learned We should respect all civilizations in
  the world.

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Language study

• 1. meet,encounter
• bump into, come across, run across, run into
• confront, face up with
• eg I had a frightening encounter with a
  poisonous snake.

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2. ancient, old, antique

• modern, new, current/modern
• ancient accounts of dragons an old sweater of
  mine collected antique Ming furniture

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3. to strain

• to try very hard
• I still couldnt hear anything no matter how I
  strained my ears.
• He overworked last week and strained himself.
• every nerve

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4. over-heated too hot

• Over- too much
• e.g. overdressed
• overtalk/overstudy/overwork/overpraise
• overeat/ oversleep/overdrink
• overkill
• overload
• overcharge
• overvalue

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5. consist of

• The school consists of 7 departments which teach
  28 foreign languages.
• The new house consists of five bedrooms, a
  sitting-room, a big kitchen, two bathrooms and a
  beautiful garden.

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• consists of
• is composed of
• The book is made up of eight chapters.
• falls into
• Eight chapters constitute the book.

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6. scatter

• To spread widely in all directions by throwing
• e.g. seeds on the field
• The factories are ed instead of being
  concentrated in a single area.
• The wind soon ed the clouds.
• Dont your strength.
• sb.s hopes
• The weather forecast says that tomorrow will be
  sunshine with scattered showers.
• After the meeting, there was wasted paper
  scattered about.

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7. Pat sb. on the shoulder P.249

• wound sb. in the leg
• hit sb. at the back
• peck sb. on the cheek

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8. assure

• v. to tell sb. that sth. is sure to happen so
• that he does not have to worry
• assure sb./oneself (of sth.) to cause sb. to
  feel
• certain about sth.
• rest assured (that) to be certain that
• Examples
• I can assure you that he is an honest person.
• You may rest assured that everything is
• developing smoothly as you wish.

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8. Work out get better or resolved

• out a method/a program
• out the differences/difficulties
• I cant out the meaning of this poem.
• He is good at ing out the enemys secret
  messages.
• Things ed out quite differently.
• Dont worry, things will work out in the end.

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9. in case so as to be safe if (something
happens) if

• e.g.
• Take a raincoat it rains.
• Give him a call he doesnt know.
• Take your skates you decide to go skating.

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• Thank you for your attention