Issue978Nov.1st,2012P.2BuzzP.7Culture.ppt

Buzz Reading Comprehension Skimming Work Read through the passage and answer the following questions : 1. What is the main idea of this passage? 2. Who will be punished if a group of pedestrians cross large intersections ignoring red lights? Reading Comprehension Skimming Work Read through the passage and answer the following questions : 3. What punishment will a person get if he disobeys the traffic lights? 4. Will pedestrians who walk through red lights get the same punishment in different places ? Assignment Make a survey to the students in your class with the following questions: How long should pedestrians be kept waiting at red lights? How much should pedestrians who ignore the red lights pay for the punishment? Why? Write a report about their response and share it with the whole class. Reading Comprehension Direction: Go over the passage in 4 minutes and answer the following questions : 1. What is Britishism, how do you understand it? Reading Comprehension Reading Comprehension Reading Comprehension True or False Questions TV dramas and movies such as Doctor Who, Downton Abbey and Harry Potter have gained respectable fans in the US, and then British culture becomes popular in the US. Although the word “gastropubs” is used in the US , pubs serving food are still not acceptable in the US. When Americans use British English, the meaning occasionally gets lost in translation. Many Britons see Americanisms as a bad influence, so they refuse to use American English in the UK. American spellings of were introduced in the US in 1806 because British spellings were thought to be needlessly complicated. Word Study  Word Study Word Study Word Study Word Study Background Information Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programe produced by the BBC. The programe depicts the adventures of a Ti