Culture Cards (L i s T e N i N G )

Skill level:       Advanced level

Age:                18+

Material:        Several cards with American culture words

Objective:       Practice listening skill for specific information or mail ideas

 

Procedure:

1.      Preparation. Teacher will start by asking students about how long have they been in USA for. Teacher will also ask students if anyone had problem with American culture when they first came here; it might be American greeting.

 

2.      Presentation. Teacher will explain to students about what they will be doing. Teacher will give student an example of the activities

 

3.      Practice.

Activity 1:

·         Teacher will have students make a group of three people.

·         Teacher will pick a couple words of 15 cards, and give explanations of each word in order to let student guess the worlds on those cards by raising hands.

·         Anyone can guess a word correctly, his/her group will get a point

·         Teacher will tell student that each group have only one chance to guess the words, and students can start guessing the words after teacher give them at least three explanations.

 

    Activity 2:

·         Teacher will ask each student to pick a card, and then he/she will read the explanations to other students in order to let them guess what the word is.

·         Any one can guess the word correctly; his /her groups will a point. But if anyone in the explainer’s own group can guess the words correctly, his/her groups will get two points.

·         Give students in each group a turn to be an explainer.

·         Teacher will tell students that each group have only one chance to guess the words, and students can start guessing the words after the explainer give them at least three clues.

 

4.      Evaluation. After finishing the activities, teacher will give students

total scores.

 

5.      Extension. Teacher will ask students to interview American people about their belief on any topic

For example: American people believe that “Time is Money”

 

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