Unit 2 Culture Shock: Making a cultural change
Leading-in questions: When you leave your hometown or your parents to attend university, do you feel anxiety, loneliness, discomfort, dissatisfaction or even hostility in the new environment? What are they? How do you cope with these problems? (some suggestions?) 1. What is the different focus for Text 1 and Text 2? 2. What’s culture? 3. What’s culture shock? What are the different degrees or five distinct phases ( or stages) of culture shock? 4. Why does culture shock happen/arise? 5. How do you solve the problem? 6. What are the benefits of experiencing culture shock?
1. What’s the target reader of this text? Or what’s the function of the text? ( Students studying abroad/ to help them cope with life abroad)
2. What’s the main idea of the whole text? ( It deals with the causes, symptoms, and suggestions about culture shock. / Foreigners should make adjustments to cope with culture shock.)
3. What’s the organization pattern of para.1? ( time sequence, spacial relation, comparison and contrast, example and Illustration, cause and effect?)
4. What’s the relation of the sentence “Anyone who can study abroad is fortunate, but, of course, it is….” in Para.2? (transition)
Reading skill: Understanding the relation within the sentence 5. What’s the main idea of Para.3? What’s the topic sentence? (The sudden change and strangeness lead to cultural shock)
6. 1) What’s the main idea of Para.4? (Topic sentence: Foreigners experience different degrees of culture shock.) 2) Guessing the meaning of “symptoms” in the sentence “The symptoms range from…. other signs of culture shock.”?
8. 1) What’s the topic? and main idea of Para.5? (Topic: adjustment. Main idea: Immature and mature persons take different actions to make adjustment.) Reading skill: distinguish topic and main idea
2) Para5.: Guessing the meaning of “complain” in the sentence “When the student meets another miserable person from the same country, … in their native language.”?
9. What’s the main idea of Para.6? ( some suggestions are helpful in fighting culture shock/suggestions for fighting culture shock)
10. What’s the function of the last paragraph? (to make conclusion)
Reading skill: understanding or recognizing the communicative value (function) of sentences and utterances Section B
Passage 4: Culture shock is the confusion resulting from the distortion of the signs, rules, and regulations that govern social interaction