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*教学内容与过程设计的主要内容包括（供参考，编写教案时自行删除）： 一、根据教学大纲、教学目的以及教材特点选择教学内容；
二、根据教学内容及学生实际，选择有效的教学方法与手段，突出重点、突破难点； 三、课堂教学环节及各环节的大致时间安排。
*教案字数未做严格要求，一般而言，熟悉本课程教学内容的有经验的教师可写简案，简化内容，突出过程设计，新教师及新任本课程教学的教师原则上应写详案。 *“教学后记”是授课完毕之后，教师对授课准备情况、授课过程及授课效果的回顾与总结，因此，教师应及时手写补充完整本部分内容。
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时间第周，总第 3 次课 安排 章节 Unit 1 Communication Across Culture 名称 教学How to Ask Directions 目的
教学重点How to Ask Directions 与 难点 Reading II The Challenge of Globalization Comprehension questions 1. Why does the author say that our understanding of the world has changed? Many things, such as political changes and technological advances, have changed the world very rapidly. In the past most human beings were born, lived, and died within a limited geographical area, never encountering people of other cultural backgrounds. Such an existence, however, no longer prevails in the world. Thus, all people are faced with the challenge of understanding this changed and still fast changing world in which we live. 2. What a “global village” is like? As our world shrinks and its inhabitants become interdependent, people from remote cultures increasingly come into contact on a daily basis. In a ―global village‖, members of once isolated groups of people have to communicate with members of other cultural groups. Those people may live thousands of miles away or right next door to each other. 3. What is considered as the major driving force of the post-1945 globalization? Technology, particularly telecommunications and computers are considered to be the major driving force. 4. What does the author mean by saying that “the ?global? may be more local than the ?local?”? The increasing global mobility of people and the impact of new electronic media on human communications make the world seem smaller. We may communicate more with people of other countries than with our neighbors, and we may be more informed of the international events than of the local events. In this sense, ―the ?global? may be more local than the ?local?‖. 5. Why is it important for businesspeople to know diverse cultures in the world? Effective communication may be the most important competitive advantage that firms have to 教 学 内 容 与 过 程 设 计
教 学 后 记 *
*教学内容与过程设计的主要内容包括（供参考，编写教案时自行删除）： 一、根据教学大纲、教学目的以及教材特点选择教学内容；
二、根据教学内容及学生实际，选择有效的教学方法与手段，突出重点、突破难点； 三、课堂教学环节及各环节的大致时间安排。
*教案字数未做严格要求，一般而言，熟悉本课程教学内容的有经验的教师可写简案，简化内容，突出过程设计，新教师及新任本课程教学的教师原则上应写详案。 *“教学后记”是授课完毕之后，教师对授课准备情况、授课过程及授课效果的回顾与总结，因此，教师应及时手写补充完整本部分内容。
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时间第 2周，总第 4 次课 安排 章节 Unit 2 Culture and Communication 名称 教学 Learn the relationship of the culture and communication 目的
教学重点The relationship between the culture and communication 与 难点 Warm Up Questions 1. Why was Tom considered a rude host by his visitors? Try to figure out at least three things among the following Tom did that were regarded to be impolite. 2. How can you explain the fact that Tom is misunderstood when he actually wants to be kind and friendly to the visitors? What are the things that Tom did would be regarded as impolite? To answer this question we have to know the cultural background of his guests and how different it is from the American culture. Suppose the guests were from China, and it seems that at least b., d., f. and g. may be considered as impolite. If the guests were from some other culture, the answer might be different. Reading I What Is Culture Comprehension questions 1. Which of the definitions given above do you prefer? Why? Some may prefer a short definition, such as the one given by E. Sapir or R. Benedict, for it is highly generalized and easy to remember. Some may prefer a longer one, such as Edward T. Hall?s definition of culture, because it provides us with a more comprehensive understanding of culture and points out the all-pervasive impact of culture on human life in different dimensions. 2．What have you learned from those definitions about culture? Many things can be learned from those definitions, for each definition, though not without its limitations, tells us something very important about culture or certain aspect(s) of culture. 3. Do you agree that our lower needs always have to be satisfied before we can try to satisfy the higher needs? Even though this is generally the case, there will still be some exceptions. Sometimes people might prefer to satisfy higher needs, for instance, esteem needs, before their lower needs, such as certain physiological needs or safety needs, are satisfied. 4. What examples can you give about how people of different cultures achieve the same ends by taking different roads? For example, everyone has to eat in order to live and this is universally true. However, to satisfy this basic need, people of various cultures may do it in very different ways: what to eat and how to eat it vary from culture to culture. 5. What behaviors of ours are born with and what are learned in the cultural environment? Instinctive behaviors are behaviors that we are born with and ways of doing things in daily life, such as ways of eating, drinking, dressing, finding shelter, making friends, marrying, and dealing with death are learned in the cultural environment. 教 学 内 容 与 过 程 设 计
6. What other cultural differences do you know in the way people do things in their everyday life? We can also find cultural differences in ways of bringing up children, treating the elderly, greeting each other, saving and spending money, and many other things people do in everyday life. 7. In what ways are the Chinese eating habits different from those of the English-speaking countries? We Chinese may enjoy something that is not usually considered as edible by the English-speaking people. Generally we prefer to have things hot and lay much emphasis on tastes.We tend to share things with each other when we are eating with others. Fill-in Task Fill in the following blanks with at least five things in our life that you think are above and five that are below the “water”, the level of our consciousness. Sharing Knowledge: More about Culture Writing Read the following quotation and think over the point the scholar tries to make. Write a short essay to further explain it. There are a few very important points that we have to understand and keep in mind when we are involved in communication between cultures: 1. Cultures may have been classified as primitive or sophisticated, traditional or modern, and they may be more or less powerful and influential, but no culture is perfect, bias-free or complete in its view of the world. 2. It follows that there is no ―best‖ culture suitable for all peoples in the world, In comparing cultures, we can hardly say which culture is definitely better than the other, for each culture can be appropriate to certain group of people living in a particular geographic and social environment. 3. A culture should therefore be judged and interpreted in its own context. Without considering the environment in which people of a particular culture live, it would be impossible for us to really understand and appreciate what is significant and meaningful in that culture. 教 学 后 记 *