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UNIT 2 SPACE INVADERS Learning Objectives First listen to and then talk about personal space. Learn text I Space Invader. Wrote a letter to describe a crowdy situation. Listen to A typical English conversation. Read supplementary material Space and Distance. Warm-up Questions How do you feel if you are one of the passengers? Is personal space important to you? Why or why not? What do you usually do when you are in a crowded bus or subway? If people stand too close or too far to you, how do you feel? And what would you do? Do we have a weaker sense of personal space than the Westerners? Why or why not? What elements affect people’s personal space sense? Cultural background Personal space Personal space can be imagined as a kind of bubble surrounding a person that protects his or her privacy and which other people may not normally enter. Allowing somebody to get very close and enter your personal space may be a sign of trust or love. On the other hand, intruding other’s personal space can be rather offensive. The amount of space people need to feel around them varies with various factors, such as culture, sex, familiarity between people, crowdedness of the situation, etc. For example: ● people from cultures that like a lot of personal space feel awkward and embarrassed when somebody comes too close to them; ● people of the same sex may sit or stand closer to each other than to somebody of the opposite sex; ● strangers and casual acquaintances usually need more space than friends and members of the same family who know each other well; ● in a noisy street people may need to stand closer than they would normally, simply in order to hear each other. Text I SPACE INVADERS Richard Stengel Global Reading I. Structural analysis of the text In the text, the writer first points out the fact that nowadays people are more concerned about themselves and want to have a larger personal space than decades ago, and then he analyses the causes of space invasion. The text can b