Teachers: Loubna Ait

Textbook: Ticket to Unit: 6

Moummad, Lamia Level: 2 bac
English cultural issues
Ammedlous & Wiam En-nia
Lesson: listening Focus: cultural shock Timing: 60 min Page: 84

Targeted language skills: Materials used: Class management:

Listening and speaking White/blackboard Individual work & pair work
Text-book & tape
Targeted competency:
Listen for specific information

Learning objectives (WALT): Success criteria (WILF):

By the end of this lesson, learners should be able to: -Define cultural shock
-Classify the stages of cultural shock.
- Understand what does cultural shock mean -Classify the characteristics of each cultural
-Identify the stages of cultural shock and their shock stage.
characteristics.

Activities Comments
 Build-up Q: “What are some of the different cultural
Warm up practices that you find to be weird?”
10 min  T presents the learning objectives and the success
criteria and writes them on the board.
 T discusses with Ss the problems that a person may
encounter when moving to another country.
 T asks Ss about their ideas on what does “Culture
Pre-listening
Shock” mean, and write three to four of their
10. min suggestions on the board.
 T teaches the key words: discovery, resistance,
immersion, and adjustment.
 T writes questions that the listening text may answer.
First listening :
- T asks student to listen and compare their definition
of cultural shock with the one of the speaker in the
While-listening tape.
Second listening:
20 min (Pair work)
- Ss listen to the tape to find out how many stages
cultural shock has.
Third listening
- Ss do activity 4 while listening.
 Relate the topic to Ss’ life: “Have you ever
Post-listening experienced culture shock in your life?”
 Expanding the topic: “What advice would you give
15 min
to someone who is struggling to adapt with a new
culture in a foreign country?”