Unit 10 the Green Banana 现代大学英语课件.ppt

   LESSON TEN    exercises 1. What is “learning moments”? Have you ever experienced “learning moments”? 2. Have you ever heard of or encountered the experience of cultural differences? List the examples. Background The text is taken from Beyond Experience: An Experiential Approach to Cross-cultural Education edited by Donald Batchelder and Elizabeth G. Warner in 1974. Batchelder’s view on cross-cultural education: “If some of the goals of education in modern times are to open up possibilities for discovery and expand learning and the chance for mutual acceptance and recognition in a wider world, it may be important to offer students a perspective on their own immediate center of the world by enabling them to participate sensitively as cross-cultural sojourners to the center of someone else’s world.” (种族优越论) Ethnocentrism provincialism regionalism Cultural chauvinism Relativism racism(cultural) imperialism Ayers rock * * The Green Banana Donald Batchelder In the central area of Brazil, steep mountain road My jeep stopped. The radiator leak. Stopped for help went on reached destination Special potential of green bananas importance of the rock? Cultural relativism Beginning Ending Climax Development learning experie-nce(para.5-8) Telling the first part of the Story: Story (Narration) Language Understanding: consist of ...: include .. as its main parts or aspects包括 相似结构：由 … 组成 构成 be composed of … … constitute be made up of … fall into… E.g. 这本书是有八个章节构成的。 The book consists of eight chapters. The book is composed of is made up of eight chapters. falls into Eight chapters constitute the book. sure: adj. (predicative only) Be sure to do sth. 务必，一定要 　　 make sure that… 确信 　Be/feel sure of (about) sth./ that…确信 adv. I