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Cultural Day in High School
1. Description of the task
1.1 Class profile
Age: 15-16 years old
Proficiency: B1 / Intermediate
Class size: 20
Grade and school: 3rd Grade High school Students
1.2 Duration: 3 Class Hours
1.3 Aims of the teachers
Exposing students to different cultures, including their festivals, food, art (famous
artists, writers and poets), places of attraction, and helps them understand the
connection between the language and the culture in which it develops.
Developing intercultural awareness for the global citizenship
Developing autonomous learning
Making contribution to teamwork skills
Helping them to use websites, generally Internet, accordingly in order to obtain
information they need
1.4 Objectives of the task
Students are supposed to;
collaborate on the task with one another
assess the websites they will use based on their specific tasks
demonstrate what they did at the end of the task
create meaningful and purposeful interaction through language
use the internet effectively for collecting data
1.5 Material Evaluation
Language Learning Potential: As it will be group work, students can easily have
interaction among them. The quality and quantity of practice learners receive gives
students an opportunity to have a meaningful task by collaborating with one another.
Meaning Focus: Students are provided with comprehensible input when they work on
their tasks.
Learner Fit: Learners’ age, needs and proficiency level are taken into consideration
while this task is being prepared.
Authenticity: Instructions and the authentic websites students will use are beyond the
classroom.
Positive Impact: Materials enable students to have interaction and participation so it
can be regarded beneficial.
Practicality: The uses of authentic websites make students feel they are in touch with
daily real live.
2. Procedures of the Task
2.1 Pre-Task
Teacher starts the lesson with greeting and says that they will begin the class with some
pictures.
(Every picture reflects different aspects of different cultures.)
The teacher shows these pictures one by one and gets some ideas (places of attractions
(Collesseum, Tivoli Gardens…), food, festivals (Benin, Folklore festival) etc.) about them
from the students and the teacher writes the students’ answers on the board (mind-mapping)
because these answers will be used during on-task activity. Then, she puts these pictures on
the board and asks some questions below.
What do these pictures stand for?
(Students are expected to give the answer ‘Culture’. If they do not, the teacher
provides some clues to make them find for the next questions.)
What are some things that define a culture? For example, music, language, ...
What is its value?
Why does it matter?
(The teacher’s aim is to make students motivate to the lesson as emotional readiness is
a precursor for next activities. By the help of these questions, students can talk about
their culture or other cultures and so they are actively engaged in the topic.)
After the exchange of information about cultures, the teacher says:
T: It seems that you have very great ideas about culture and its value in a society. I’m
grateful to hear your voices on this topic and now it’s time to work with different
cultures deeply. We will have fun as we meet new cultures.
2.2 On-task:
The teacher divides the class into 5 groups. The teacher writes the five cultures on the paper
which was defined beforehand. In order to avoid inequity they cast lots for choosing the
cultures. The defined cultures are: Europe, Scandinavia, Africa, Middle East and The Far
East. Each group chooses a paper and then they delegate the duties. Taking into consideration
the key points of the culture the students make research on the Internet and handling these
points they design a cultural day. Each one of the students in a group makes research in a
specific area related to culture such as food & drinks, traditional clothes, places to visit etc.
The teacher recalls that they will prepare a booklet about the culture given to them based on
their research. They visit websites and collect data for their design. Sample websites are given
below:
1) EUROPE (festivals)
https://www.fest300.com/magazine/top-12-european-festivals
Other links related to European culture:
http://www.thelovelyplanet.net/traditional-dress-of-england-outcome-of-the-local-and-
european-clothing-repercussions/
https://www.thetrumpet.com/article/28.24.69.0/religion/the-truth-about-religion-in-europe
http://www.food.com/topic/european
2) SCANDINAVIA (traditional clothing)
https://www.etsy.com/uk/search/clothing/womens-clothing?q=Scandinavian+costume
Other links related to Scandinavian culture:
http://www.scandikitchen.co.uk/scandinavian-food/
http://goscandinavia.about.com/od/annualeventstraditions/
http://www.holestories.com/top-must-see-places-in-scandinavia-iceland-norway-sweden-
finland-denmark/
3) AFRICA (religious beliefs)
http://blog.oup.com/2014/05/15-facts-on-african-religions/
Other links related to African culture:
http://www.our-africa.org/foods
http://travel.cnn.com/stunning-african-spots-552779/
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Africa-/155241/i.html?_sop=16&Gender=Women%2527s
4) MIDDLE EAST (places to visit)
http://www.ucityguides.com/cities/top-10-cities-and-places-in-the-middle-east.html
Other links related to Middle Eastern culture:
http://travel.cnn.com/20-best-middle-east-dishes-324556/
http://www.raqs.co.nz/me/clothing_types.html
5) THE FAR EAST (food & drinks)
http://tallahassee.eat24hours.com/far-east-cuisine/4272
Other links related to Far Eastern culture:
http://www.originaltravel.co.uk/far-east
http://leonsplanet.com/han_festivals.htm
https://chineseclothing.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/whats-the-traditional-dress-associated-
with-the-far-east/
They collect data from websites like given above and make investigation. They can budget
(700 Euro) for clothing or foods and they can use these cultural elements while making their
presentation or preparing their booklets. Of course all the cultural elements are not available
for the students but they can give an order from some websites which shipping to Turkey.
2.3. Post-task
T: You have completed your research about cultures. You have visited so many websites
by taking your research field into consideration and found very interesting things,
probably. And now, it is time to share them! Are you ready for the presentations and
meeting different cultures around the world? I believe we will see very different
things. So, who wants to begin?
A voluntary group begins their presentation. Each person in the group must take the floor
during presentation and it is already inevitable because each of them has a part of culture to
research.
After each presentation, a whole class discussion will be organized. This discussion can be
made of two steps. Firstly, the rest of the class will comment on their friends’ presentation
and they can ask anything they are curious about. Secondly, the whole class will discuss
generally the culture presented. They can discuss the similarities or dissimilarities with
Turkish culture or they can talk about the most interesting thing (food, festival etc.) to them.
As an assignment, the teacher asks each group to prepare a booklet about the culture they
research about:
T: All of you did really good job and thanks to you, we met different cultures and learned
what we do not know about nations. This time, I ask you to prepare a booklet about the
culture about which you researched to inform other people. In this booklet, there will
be a cover page where your research area (for example Europe, Africa) is highlighted.
You can put photos of these countries on the page. Other page will include information
about food/cuisine of that country. One page may be about festivals, one may be
traditional clothes or places of attraction. You can also add things you find worthy
talking about. It is totally up to you. It would be nice to put a paragraph including
general information about food/festival etc. at the beginning of the related page and
then give some specific examples. I’ll show you an example.
T: Be sure that your assignments must be shared on our class blog until the day before
next class. And remember that this one will be added to your final exam. Also, we
spared three class hours to this task. So, I know that you will do your best and pay
necessary attention to booklets. Thank you.
REFERENCES
https://www.gianteagle.com/Cooking-Ideas/Cooking-Guides/Taste-of-the-Far-East-Asian-
Cuisine/
http://www.seriouseats.com/images/2014/12/20141125-hot-pot-guide-shao-zhong-17.jpg
http://thewoksoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/DSC_0190.jpg
https://www.organicfacts.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Edamame.jpg
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