Computen hardware operating environment(software) Humans(physical selves) Culture(the software of the mind) Culture is like the water a fish swims in. water culture fish uma1 Culture is like the grammar of our behavior. Third listening:sentence imitation Ask students to use the following active vocabularies to form sentences as what they have heard from listening(Dictate then remember). Please first write down the following words on the blackboard or computer.Then ask students to listen for sentences with these words in them.You ask them to listen two times and see who has caught more sentences. 1.to be aware of As with any good software,we are only vaguely aware of it as we use it. 2.to fade into It fades into the background 3.to be incompatible with We just know that the computer sometimes does not work because it is incompatible with someone else's software. 4.to scan Like any creature,a fish scans its environment to find food Part C Culture-loaded Idioms First listening:listen for the gist What is the main idea of the lecture? The lecture illustrates with many examples the cultural similarities and/or differences relating to certain animal words and sports idioms between Chinese and English.Such idiomatic or informal forms are difficult to learn to non-native speakers and the trouble in understanding them is that the meaning of the whole phrase cannot be deduced from the individual words which constitute it. Second listening:listen for specific information In this part the teacher has great freedom and flexibility to ask students questions,to clarify any difficult language points,to add in supplementary materials as background knowledge or in-depth understanding of the listening materials. Notice how these animal idioms and sports idioms are culture-loaded. 6Culture is like the water a fish swims in. Culture is like the grammar of our behavior. Third listening: sentence imitation Ask students to use the following active vocabularies to form sentences as what they have heard from listening (Dictate then remember). Please first write down the following words on the blackboard or computer. Then ask students to listen for sentences with these words in them. You ask them to listen two times and see who has caught more sentences. 1. to be aware of As with any good software, we are only vaguely aware of it as we use it. 2. to fade into It fades into the background 3. to be incompatible with We just know that the computer sometimes does not work because it is incompatible with someone else's software. 4. to scan Like any creature, a fish scans its environment to find food Part C Culture-loaded Idioms First listening: listen for the gist What is the main idea of the lecture? The lecture illustrates with many examples the cultural similarities and/or differences relating to certain animal words and sports idioms between Chinese and English. Such idiomatic or informal forms are difficult to learn to non-native speakers and the trouble in understanding them is that the meaning of the whole phrase cannot be deduced from the individual words which constitute it. Second listening: listen for specific information In this part the teacher has great freedom and flexibility to ask students questions, to clarify any difficult language points, to add in supplementary materials as background knowledge or in-depth understanding of the listening materials. Notice how these animal idioms and sports idioms are culture-loaded. 6