unit seven:celebration dec. 2007. i.objectives 1. cultural differences (to the origin of...
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UNIT SEVEN: CELEBRATION
Dec. 2007
I. Objectives 1. Cultural differences (To the origin of holidays—
public holidays in the US, Great Britain and Canada)
2. Schema: Holiday schema & Wedding schema ( 信息结构 )
3. How to express similar ideas in different ways 4. Discourse organization—outline of a passage (e
ither sentences or phrases) (relevancy & irrelevancy)
5. Explaining typical Chinese things 6 . Definition of words
II. Vocabulary
Vocabulary related to holidays, celebrations and weddings
III. Research topics 1. Some more important festivals in the
West (p. 466) 3. Some important festivals in China 3. Wedding traditions in Britain and/or
America. 4. Wedding traditions of a Chinese ethnic
group.
IV. Unit writing
1. Please invent a holiday and introduce the holiday.
(origin / why; when; where; traditions; celebrations / what do people do )
Ⅴ. Passages to be recited
P452 Some holidays (Last paragraph) P477 Atv. 14 Irrelevant sentences (Mid-Autu
mn Festival ) Note: The last sentence is excluded