Lesson Plan

04/10/2013 Title (Unit): Cultural Misunderstandings Grade (Level): Grade 1 High School Intermediate -> Advanced Students 50 minutes x 2 periods Lesson Focus: Speaking, reading for general understanding, advice giving Skills Practiced: Critical thinking, inter-cultural awareness Objectives: By the end of the lesson students will be able to: - Recognize the importance of cultural differences. - Discuss and share aspects of Korean culture. - Give advice to help people deal with cultural differences - Understand other cultures characteristics. Materials: PowerPoint Video (Authentic material from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdeFdFEbuqk ) South Korean government advice for foreigners (Authentic materials) Activity sheets

Procedure & Communication Direction

Details (Class1)

Warm Up Teacher Class Student(s)

Brainstorming (10 mins) Split the class in half and make groups of 4. Ask half the groups to think about what aspect of Korean culture foreigners find most difficult, and the other half what aspect of Western culture Koreans find most difficult. Get class feedback; write students ideas on the board. Try and relate any problems with my experiences Pre-Video Activity (5 minutes) Tell the students they are going to watch a video in which an American man in Japan eats dinner with his Japanese family in law (this term will need explaining) for the first time.

Listening Practice via Video Work T Class St St St

Put the students in groups Ask them to guess 5 cultural differences that might feature in the video, the group that gets the most right will get a prize. Video Work (10 minutes)

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Play the video two times, the first time will mostly be spent laughing! The second time, ask the students to check how many they got correct and to note down any

they missed.

Speaking T Class

Role Plays (25 minutes) Put the students into groups of 4. Tell the students that they must take on the role of one person in the video. They must imagine that after dinner they had a family meeting to try and figure out what went wrong and form a conclusion or solution to the problems they had. Topics that students might like to consider including: - Who should have been more understanding, the American man or the Japanese family? - What each character could have done differently in the situation? - How each person was expected to act in a family dinner situation from the Japanese perspective and the American perspective? - What each person should do in the future to make each other happy? How can they be more understanding? - When each group is finished choose some groups to perform in front of the class.

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Homework

- To prepare students for the next lesson students must do some research. Give each group a different country, each group must then do some research and identify differences between that countries culture and Korean culture.

Procedure & Communication Direction Group Speaking Analysing Advice for Foreigners

Details (Class2)

(15minutes)

- The students should already be sat in groups of four. Split these into two pairs.

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- Give half of the advice for foreigners coming to Korea to each pair of students. Tell the students they must read the advice and split it them into four categories: - Very important advice

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- Advice you found funny. - Advice you disagree with - Advice you thought was unimportant - Tell the students that once they are done they will have to explain some of their decisions to the other pair in their group.

Group Speaking

Creating Advice for an Exchange Student (20 minutes) - Put the students in groups of four. - Tell the students that an exchange student is coming to Hyundai High School. The

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nationality of each groups student is the same as the homework. - They must make a pamphlet with advice for the exchange student that will be coming to Hyundai High School.

Question Time T - Class

Answering Students Questions about Culture

(15 minutes)

- Now give students a chance to ask any questions they have about Western culture. (Having travelled a lot of the world I also tell students I will do my best to answers

questions about any culture they are interested in.) - So students can ask completely honest questions, have them write their questions down and put them in a box. - Once allt he questions are done, take the questions from the box and answer them. I guarantee you will be surprised at the quality of questions you will get. This is one of my students favourite activities from the entire course.