Week 11 Activity 2 by Mai Nguyen https://padlet.com/nxnchimai/Wednesday_Week11 Share your adapted lesson ideas here. en-us 2017-05-17 02:39:58 UTC 2025-12-10 05:43:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lovecoffee.png InAe, Amalia, Maho https://padlet.com/nxnchimai/Wednesday_Week11/wish/172246216 LessonC [international material]
Context:primary school students learning English in Japan
Culture topic: food (eating manner)

Learn the eating manner in Western culture (e.g. the way people place cutleries while and after eating).
In order to reflect their own culture, students discuss eating manner in Japan as well.]]> 2017-05-17 04:58:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nxnchimai/Wednesday_Week11/wish/172246216 Masayasu, Indry, Paul https://padlet.com/nxnchimai/Wednesday_Week11/wish/172246336 Lesson C
Students: Bachelor level English, International students.
Context: Studying in Australia.
Revision: In greetings, change Japanese bowing to be more descriptive of what actually happens. Clothes, "Asian and Muslim countries, you shouldn't reveal the body" - not necessarily all Asian countries. In Japan, don't necessarily take off shoes in a restaurant.
Extra tips, in a lot of Asian countries smacking lips is not acceptable.
Revise question 2 to reflect any changes in the original text.
Remove questions 3.1
Edit question 3.3]]> 2017-05-17 04:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nxnchimai/Wednesday_Week11/wish/172246336 Tracy&Ashley https://padlet.com/nxnchimai/Wednesday_Week11/wish/172246343 Lesson A
context:
secondary school in China.
Revision: 
 In activity 3 in this lesson, it asks students to fill in the blanks according to the information provided in the text. then we can ask students to describe Spring Festival in China base on the given sentences in activity 3. 

Ask students to compare the two different  traditions in both Tet and Spring Festival. For example the food, weather at that time, ]]> 2017-05-17 04:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nxnchimai/Wednesday_Week11/wish/172246343 Julliean, Zoey https://padlet.com/nxnchimai/Wednesday_Week11/wish/172246371 Lesson A
Context:  Dutch advanced beginner school children
Adaptation:
In the unit, students answer all those questions in the text book about Vietnam.
Next the teacher starts another interview as the interviewer, asking the students about New Years in the Netherlands on the radio (may introduce relevant vocabulary). Then students talk in pairs, comparing their own customs to that of their partner.

- Let students know about the New Years traditions in Vietnam and think about their own traditions/culture.
- the adapted activity creates a sphere of interculturality
- Contains international cultural contents as well as some source culture contents.]]> 2017-05-17 05:00:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nxnchimai/Wednesday_Week11/wish/172246371 Lesson C- Cece & Bowie https://padlet.com/nxnchimai/Wednesday_Week11/wish/172246607 Context: EIL Chinese high school students
1. be able to avoid misunderstandings for people with different cultural backgrounds since the aspects are closely related to the daily life
2. brief induction with key words about the different cultural aspects
3. a combination of the written texts and pictures

Revised:
1. in terms of the perspective of clothes, the description of taking off shoes when entering a house is not exactly true. It'd better to only keep the Japanese part, as it is more typical.
2. Food and drink: Chinese people could also discuss business at the meal table.

]]> 2017-05-17 05:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/nxnchimai/Wednesday_Week11/wish/172246607 Tim Yan https://padlet.com/nxnchimai/Wednesday_Week11/wish/172246706 Target students: 15 L2 learners of an English learning insititution who are from various cultural backgrounds . Intermedia level IELTS 6
Lesson C
Activity:
1.Introduce a video about the cultural differences 
2.let students work in small groups and discuss according to the given clues in the materials.
3.role playing games
4.conclusion ]]> 2017-05-17 05:04:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nxnchimai/Wednesday_Week11/wish/172246706 Joy/Vicky https://padlet.com/nxnchimai/Wednesday_Week11/wish/172246829 Lesson B
Context: Chinese Senior high school students with intermediate English proficiency.

Adaption: Add Chinese advertisement model examples in the passage. Also, for the questions part, In the understanding statistics, use Chinese status quo for the statements. Cut the vocabulary part. In the critical thinking part, revise the question to" Is there any passive impact you can think of from Chinese circumstance? What do you think Chinese media effect you and how can it be improved? ]]> 2017-05-17 05:06:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nxnchimai/Wednesday_Week11/wish/172246829 Hazel & Yin https://padlet.com/nxnchimai/Wednesday_Week11/wish/172246979 Lesson C
Context: Studying in China, in private international  schools.
Students are all about to study abroad. In the age group from 15-18 years old.
Revision: 
1. Will continue use the original text, but some of the content is needed to be revised. Such as the authenticity of the content and adding more Chinese elements.]]> 2017-05-17 05:08:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nxnchimai/Wednesday_Week11/wish/172246979 Su, Kim sunnykidsvn https://padlet.com/nxnchimai/Wednesday_Week11/wish/172247572 Lesson C.
Target students: Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Indonesian students of EFL.
Activity:
1. True or false? Explain more detailedly. 
  2. Read the text.
      Discuss your own contexts. What it is like in your country: does the same gesture implies politeness? If not, what does it imply? 
  3. Answer questions:
      What are Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian and Indonesian forms of greeting? Are they similar or different from one another? 
      Ideal ways of clothing in your country? 
      Describe your main meal? Are they similar or different from that of other countries? 
      Discuss topics that are likely to be raised during meals in your country. How about business? Is it discussable in meals?
      Consider this refusal of a person when he/she does not want to go out with other colleagues: “I don’t feel like hanging out tonight”. Can you say that in your country? If not, what would you say to refuse the date?
     Give some tips about having food and drink in your country. 
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