新编大学英语第二册Unit 7 课件（浙大版）.ppt

Culture
Culture
Culture is a broad term used
to describe the arts, the belief,
the value, the customs, the
traditions and the institutions that
are considered to be
characteristic of munity,
a people, a region or a nation.
Task 1 Different Customs
Task 2 Marriage Customs
Task 3 Guessing Work
Task 4 Video Clip
Task 5 Proverbs and Sayings
Culture
Task 1 Different Customs
Different countries may have different customs because of different cultures. The following will show you some special ways of doing things. Decide whether it is a suitable way or not.
Make a judgment!
When a prayer is being offered, a guest should just eat and not look at the host.
When a prayer is being offered, keep silent with bowed head.
Use one hand whenever possible and keep the other one on the lap.
Stay for four or five hours after the meal.
Stay for two or three hours after the meal.
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If you want to leave the table during the meal, just leave.
Say to the host or hostess, “Would you please excuse me for a minute?”
Don’t hug your friend’s wife even for greeting.
Don’t hug your Chinese friend’s wife even for greeting. It could make the husband unhappy.
You’d better present an odd number of gifts in China.
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When you receive a gift, you will unwrap it immediately.
In America, people will do like that, while in China people often unwrap it until the giver is gone.
The host and hostess feel they must see a guest off to the farthest feasible point in China.
We will ask who will pay for the meal before it.
Americans decide before the meal who will pay for it, but the Chinese will say nothing before the meal, and after the meal, everybody will volunteer to pay, so there’re usually a lot of expressions of politeness and protests.
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