Tongue Twister: B and BL A big black bug bit a big black bear and the big black bear bled blood. This black bug bled blue-black blood while the other black bug bled blue.

Tongue twister: S Sh and middle S Sister Susie went to sea To see the sea, you see. The sea she saw was a saucy sea, Since she sells sea shells by the sea shores A sort of saucy sea saw she.

Tongue twister: S Sh and middle S Sister Suzy‘s sewing shirts for soldiers Such skill at sewing shirts  my shy young sister Suzy shows Some soldiers send epistles usually Saying they’d sooner sleep on thistles Than the short serge shirts for soldiers  shy young sister Suzy sews usually.

Halloween Video clip on Thanksgiving

COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH WK. 12 Culture, Beliefs & Traditions Professor: Ms. K. Casimir Week12, Lesson10 11/24/14

Objectives During this session, students should be able to discuss their culture and their family traditions, favorite holiday and how they celebrate it, learn about Halloween and Thanksgiving, superstition and ideas of superstition. Grammar focus on reported speech and exercises. Pair Interview on tradition and culture. Team work: making a survival kit, a reading on Subway musicians, vocabulary and Idiom for the day. Drills: on stress & stress rules. Team Debate on: music and education

Group Activity: making a Survival Kit You are all survivors from a tragic incident. You ought to make a survival kit to help you survive. Please follow the instruction on your hand out. Know, you have 5 minutes to agree together on every item on that kit.

Debate: 4-5 mins. For each debate Team1 agaisnt-4 Team 2 against-5 Team 3 against 6

Idiom: “Not form this neck of the woods” What does it mean?

Drills on Stress Placement What is Stress?

Follow with the hand out! Drills on Stress Follow with the hand out!

Conceivable- Convincing- Credible- Dubious- Far fetched- Fishy- Vocabulary Conceivable- Convincing- Credible- Dubious- Far fetched- Fishy- Phony- Iffy- Misleading- Plausible- Well founded- Fabricated- Celtic culture Ritual – Suspicious- Believable-

Which musician/ song this word reminds you of? Awesome Exhilarating Frenetic Catchy Evocative Haunting Mellow Soothing Soft jazz Soundtrack Classical music Cutting edge

Grammar Focus: Reported Speech To report what someone else say, believe, think. You need to have an introductory phrase so called a reporting clause + what the person said/believe or think i.e, Mary believes (that)… + people everywhere are essentially the same.

Grammar Focus: Reported Speech In formal talk best to use these verbs: Argue, assert, claim, and report In Conversation, best to use these verbs: Admit, agree, assume, believe, doubt, explain, feel, say ( See the exercises in the hand out)  

Make a report on a murder scene you’ve just observed… Group Activity: Follow up with you hand - out 5 mins. Be ready to share one of your stories in class.

What is tradition & does that differ from culture Culture and tradition What is culture to you? What is tradition & does that differ from culture What kind of belief do you or your family have that you practice on a regular basis? What kind of tradition do you have for wedding, birthdays, baptism, engagement, visiting someone for the first time, parties, first job, first birthday, 16th birthday, 21 years old?

Pair Interviews: What is your favorite holiday and why? What do you normally do? Do you normally eat a special food or dress a special way? Do you know any superstitious connected with these things: animals, clothing, food, days, dates, number, color, weddings, jewelry, or events? Speak in full sentences each time. Describe an important festival or celebration in china or your province: How do you celebrate it or what do you normally do? What kind of cultural relics, like arts or pieces of literature or family memories that your family kept or collect?

Halloween Video clip on Halloween

American Wedding Traditions Video clip on American Wedding.

Are you superstitious? Pair Interview: on the survey questions Score each other and see where your partner falls under. 5 mins.

Expressions with luck-what’s the best answer? A. That’s a beginner’s luck ! B. no suck luck! I am staying home C. I am afraid you’re out of luck! D. wow! He’s got bad luck! E. well, best of luck F. Don’t push your luck! G. It was the luck of the draw

(you have 5-7 minutes to prepare) Class debate: Chinese culture must be protected therefore Chinese literature should be taught to college and university students during their first year of study to preserve our culture & tradition and arts instead of English or English Literature. (Teams 1-3 disagree, teams 4-6 agree) (you have 5-7 minutes to prepare)

Homework: 1. Chinese culture must be protected therefore Chinese Literature should be taught to college and university students during their first year of study to preserve our culture & tradition and arts instead of English or English Literature. (Teams 1-3 disagree, but teams 4-6 agree) 2. Read an article of your choice on tourism or traveling. Be ready to talk about that article in class. Do bring a copy of that article to class as well. or Watch one of the TED talks on culture or belief or tradition. Be ready to talk about the talk and what you’ve learned for 1 minute. www.ted.com 3. Continue to speak outside of class for at least 15 mins. each day.