1. Reading
Ellie 谌怡然

2. Culture Shock

3. Culture Shock Skim the text and try to answer the following questions
1. What is culture shock?
2. What are the symptoms of culture shock?
3. What are the suggestions offered by the author to counter culture shock?

4. Culture Shock
Scan the text and try to guess the meaning of the following words through context and do the pretest after reading
1. encounter
2. browse
3. depressed
4. hostility
5. intangible
6. inevitable
7. locate
8. dwell on
9. sympathetic

5. Culture Shock 1. encounter 2. browse 3. depressed 4. hostility
5. intangible
6. inevitable
7. locate
8. dwell on
feeling or quality exists but you cannot describe it exactly or prove it
unhappy and without hope
an occasion when someone is unfriendly or shows that they do not like something
to find or discover the exact position of something
to keep thinking or talking about something, especially something bad or unpleasant
certain to happen and unable to be avoided or prevented
to look through a book or magazine without reading everything, or to walk around a shop looking at several things without intending to buy any of them
to meet someone unexpectedly

6. Reading Comprehension
Read the text and again and circle the best answer
Skill:
Read the questions first and find the key words
Identify the key words in text

7. Assignment
1. Finish Section C before class (online dictionary, thesaurus)
2. Read news from BBC or ChinaDaily every week. (English apps only) and present the news in class within 3-5 minutes.
3. Read two books within the entire semester
a. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling（7th week）
b. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
(14th week)