1. Unit 6
A French Fourth

2. Cultural Assimilation
Presentation:
Cultural Assimilation
What has Happened to Chinese Tradition in Globalization?
How to Preserve Cultural Identity in Globalization?

3. Text related questions
What about the author and his family?
How do you understand the title?
What do you think is the main idea of the text?
What is the author’s view on globalization?

4. Part I: His way of celebrating his home country’s National Day.
Structural Analysis
Part I: His way of celebrating his home country’s National Day.
Part II: Contrastive analysis on the costs and benefits of the expatriated people.
Part III: Effect of globalization

5. Part I His way of celebrating
Expressions to Be Learned:
fold in one’s mind’s eye
prompt suppress

6. Part I His way of celebrating
Paraphrase:
July 4 is one of the times when…is prompted to try to fill the gaps.
→ July 4 is one of the times I, as a native American, feel instinctively uneasy about the gaps in our children’s understanding of their American identity, and thus I am motivated to do something to make them know more about their identity.

7. → Questions for review: 1. Why does the writer hang
Part I His way of celebrating
Questions for review:
1. Why does the writer hang
the American flag on July 4th?
2. Why do some Americans go back home for they summer?
3. How do Americans celebrate their National Day according to the text?

8. Part II Analysis on costs and benefits
Expressions to Be Learned:
mix sb/sth up expose
convey launch swell
pursue

9. Part II Analysis on costs and benefits
paraphrase:
And our physical separation
from our native land is not much
of an issue.
→Living away from our native country does not matter much in our children’s acquisition of our native language.

10. Part II Analysis on costs and benefits
Questions for review:
What does paragraph 4 convey to you?
Was the purpose of the summer travel in U. S achieved?
What are the benefits and costs as expatriates?

11. Part III effect of globalization
Expressions to Be Learned:
resonate personify
access immerse

12. Part III effect of globalization
Paraphrase:
In my day little French kids looked like nothing other than little French kids.
→When I lived in France as an expatriated child, the French kids looked quite different from their counterparts in other countries.

13. Part III effect of globalization
Paraphrase:
That experience no longer seems possible…in my view.
→Full immersion in a truly foreign world no longer seems possible in Western countries, and I think this is a deplorable impact of globalization upon the growth of children in a foreign country.

14. Part III effect of globalization
Questions for review:
Why does the author recall his own experience as a child in paragraph 10?
What are the differences between the author and his children as expatriates at about their same age? What is the cause?
What is the author’s view on globalization? Why?
What is the effects of globalization?