Unit 9 Culture Shock

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Unit 9 Culture Shock
Definition A condition of confusion and anxiety
affecting a person suddenly exposed to an alien
culture
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• Warm-up Activities
• Culturally-loaded Words
• Translation Exercises
• Summary
• Questions for Comprehension
• Take Notes and Fill the Chart
• Words and Expressions
• Listening Exercises

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Warm-up Activities (I) Group discussion

• What do you think culture shock is? Please give
  some examples.

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Warm-up Activities (II)

• Find out words about food.

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Culturally-loaded Words (1)

• 1)Fox
• In Chinese Culture
• In English Culture

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Culturally-loaded Words (1)

• 1) Fox
• In Chinese Culture ??,??
• e.g. ???,???
• In English Culture A crafty, sly, or clever
  person
• e.g. He is as sly as a fox. Youve got to watch
  him.

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Culturally-loaded Words (2)

• 2) Dragon
• In Chinese Culture ??,?,??,
• e.g. ????,??,????
• In English Culture a monster, devil something
  very dangerous
• e.g Ill starve him to death, the son of dragon.
• Her mother is a real dragon.

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Translate the following phrases

• ???
• ????
• ????
• ??????
• ????
• ??
• ????
• ???
• ?????

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Different cultural connotation of animals

• ??? a drowned cat
• ???? as timid as a rabbit
• ???? as stupid as a goose
• ?????? a cat on hot bricks
• ???? neither fish nor fowl
• ?? drink like a fish
• ???? a black sheep
• ??? a lion in the way
• ????? teach a pig to play on a flute

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Cultural differences in Color (I)

• Chinese ???????(??)?
• English His face was blue with cold. (???????)
• French visage vert de froid (??????)

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Summary

• Make a summary of the unit

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Outline

• Extract 1 the causes and symptoms of culture
  shock, and how to cure it.
• Extract 2 a Chinese womans negative attitude
  towards American food and dinner.

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Questions for comprehension (I)

• 1. What are the emotional stages of arriving
  abroad and recovering?
• 2. What are the causes and symptoms of culture
  shock?
• 3. What is reverse culture shock?
• 4. According to the author, how can one tell when
  a person has become bicultural?

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Questions for comprehension (II)

• Work out the different courses of American dinner
  in correct order.
• In text 2, the writer gives three reasons why she
  dislikes dinner parties in America. What are
  they?
• Why did they accept the invitation to dinner with
  Fan Guanglings colleaguess father?

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Questions for comprehension (II)

• Work out the different courses of American dinner
  in correct order.
• First course of salad ? main course (meat,
  potatoes, peas)? dessert? coffee/tea

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Note-making (P112_3)
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Words and Expressions (I)

• Set in to begin and (probably) continue ??,??
• e.g. Winter sets in early in the north.
• The rainy weather has set in.
• praise to the skies praise very highly ????

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Words and Expressions (II)

• Irritant
• adj causing irritation, irritating ????????
• n 1) thing that annoys ??????
• 2) substance that irritates ???
• e.g. The noise of traffic is a constant irritant
  to city dwellers. ???????????????????
• Irritate v to annoy sb ???,???
• e.g. be irritated at the delay ??????
• Irritation n ????????

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Words and Expressions (III)

• stand stall
• e.g. Food stands, a news stand, a water-melon
  stand
• Bi-cultural
• e.g. bilingual, bimonthly, biweekly, biannual
• There is nothing to do but
• e.g. There is no one here but me.
• She could do nothing but weep.

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Translate the following sentences

• The reaction can set in within two weeks of your
  arrival, or six months later, and its symptoms
  vary greatly.
• This stage has been compared to a morning after
  that is, the way one feels after having drunk
  too much beer the night before.
• You have lost familiar signs and signals, you
  have discovered that some of your assumptions
  about human beings are incorrect, and you wish
  you could make sense of the United States.
• Its not filling
• so the glasses see much service.

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Translation ()

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• ??????
• ???????

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Extensive Discussion (I,10mins)

• Imagine that you are going to spend six months
  studying in the US. (P 108)

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Extensive Discussion (II,20mins)

• Make a list of the things that a foreign visitor
  from the western country might find strange when
  arriving in China for the first time.

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Notes

• Suffer from
• Be superior to sth be better than

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Listening Exercises
Look at the handout, listen to this and finish
the exercises
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Key for translation (P112)

• ????,????????
• ??,?????????
• ??????????????,?????????(?????)
• vs. One mans fault is another mans
  lesson.????,?????

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Key for translation (P112)

• Nothing is really wrong with you you are simply
  suffering (from) culture shock.
• Sandwiches sound good, but are in fact tasteless.
• He soon adjusted to the new environment.
• Rainy weather set in soon after the cold spell.
• Old people like to live in the country, whereas
  young people prefer living in cities.