Презентация "Contemporary British language & culture"
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- Contemporary British language & culture
- Part 1
- Your cultural world
- Spend five minutes thinking about the topics below.
- A film that made a big impression on you
- The music that means the most you
- The last great book you read
- The last exhibition you went to
- Do you watch or do any sport?
- If you had to choose: plays or musicals?
- Which languages do you feel comfortable in?
- A country or place you feel real affection for
- Which cultural icons from your country do you most / least like. Why?
- Now work with another student and explain as much as you can about your own cultural world.
- Culture and the classroom
- Discuss these questions in groups.
- What does ‘culture’ mean to you?
- And what does ‘British culture’ mean to you?
- Do you think language and culture are linked? If so, how?
- Do you think teaching English as a foreign language automatically involves teaching ‘British’ culture?
- Do you think your students expect to learn about British culture while studying English?
- Do you focus on culture in your classroom? When? In what way?
- So . . . what IS British culture?
- How much do you know about the things below?
- How do you think each might be connected to British culture?
- God Save the Queen fish and chips
- curry lager
- the Costa del Sol in Spain ballet
- hip-hop football
- bowler hats Shakespeare
- Islam punk
- cricket Harrods
- car boot sales St. George's Day
- Easter Jamaica
- Listen to three people discuss their own feelings about British culture. Which of the things above do they mention – and what they say about them?
- Culture as product
- Culture as process
- Some key points about culture
- Culture is not static. It’s changing all the time.
- Culture is all-embracing.
- Unified national cultures are a myth.
- As English is the global lingua franca, this is
- even more complicated.
- Some key points about Britain
- There’s more to the British Isles than England
- England is home to 50 million people.
- The other three countries have 9 million!
- Only 7% go to public school!
- 57% claim to be working class!
- Britain is built on migration: Romans, Saxons,
- Vikings, the French and so on!
- Polish, Punjabi, Urdu and Bengali are most
- spoken foreign languages.
- 4% of the population is Muslim
- 21% have no stated religious affiliation
- Over 150,000 Brits emigrate each year
- Classroom implications
- The days of facts and figures about the UK –
- the British tourist board approach – are over.
- Teaching students about British culture needs
- to cover change, diversity, debates and
- disputes, etc.
- Culture in the classroom has to be language-
- focused and help students talk about culture
- in general more competently
- It has to be a two-way process.
- It has to allow space for the personal.
