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ONE STEP FURTHER

How Do I Use the One Step Further Section?

What is One Step Further ? Depending on factors such as your students’ background, interest level, and English ability, some of the topics will resonate with them more than others. If a topic sparks your students’ interest, and your syllabus or class time allows, there are optional extension activities for each topic, which give students a deeper look at the cultural patterns that were hinted at in the core lessons. The content is made up of additional responses to the Ibunka Survey. Students read through this extra content, looking for signs of certain cultural tendencies. How do I use this section? 1. First, guide students through the explanation of the cultural patterns that they are supposed to look for. Most units have two patterns, which are the two ends of a single continuum. For example, do people prefer to blend into the group when introducing themselves (Cultural Pattern A), or do they rather prefer to stand

out by emphasizing their uniqueness (Cultural Pattern B)? This is the Yirst real instance in the textbook of “cultural analysis”, as such. To make sure that students have grasped the concepts, you might point them to some relevant responses that they have already covered in the core lesson. 2. Read through response No. 1, which already has some words and phrases highlighted. Point these out to students, and show how they relate to either one of the cultural patterns. → This is a good time to tell them that there are always several ways to indicate which parts of the text hints at which cultural pattern: whole sentences can be highlighted, or just words. It doesn’t matter much which approach is used.

3. Next, have students prepare two differently-coloured highlighter pens (or regular pens or pencils if they do not have highlighters). In the book, the default colors for Cultural Pattern A and for Cultural Pattern B are yellow and blue. You might need to tell your students that if they don’t have the two exact same colors as in the book, they can decide on alternative colors! 4. Have students read through the remaining responses and highlight words, phrases or sentences in the same way. This is an effective pair activity, as students can explain and negotiate their choices. Direct them to the vocabulary translations if needed. →When this activity is done in the context of online

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