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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.” Ethnocentrism (种族优越论) provincialism regionalism Cultural chauvinism Relativism racism cultural imperialism (文化扩张)     Ayers rock Language Understanding: consist of ...: include .. as its main parts or aspects, 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 /falls into eight chapters. Eight chapters constitute the book. sure: adj. (predicative only) Be sure to do sth. 　　 make sure that… 确信 　Be/feel sure of (about) sth./ that… adv. I said it’d happen, and sure enough it did. I don’t know it for sure. Compare: assure I assure you (that)theres no danger. 　 ensure We can ensure that the work shall be done in the right way. work out This problem will not work out. (solve) They ‘ve worked out a method of sending a spacecraft to Mars. devise; plan) The champion is working out in the gym. (exercise) How