Vocabularies
True or Fasle
Directions: Finish the true of false exercise on page 176 of the textbook. And put your answer in the following test.
3. Sentence Anlaysis - Group work
Directions: Work in a group of 4-5 students, analyze the following sentences on its vocabularies, cultural background, grammar, sentence pattern, as well as the meaning. Be ready to participate in the in-class activites of analyzing sentences.
1) Sometimes it seems as if a tidal wave of the worst Western culture is creeping across the globe like a giant strawberry milkshake oozing over the planet, with a flavor that is distinctly sweet, sickly and manifestly homogenous.
2）Justified initially as a civilizing mission and subsequently dubbed modernization, in practice it was wholesale Westernization with very little room for any viable middle ground.
3）Obviously, it would be an excessive form of cultural fundamentalism to suggest that Africans should try to keep everything exactly as it is, rather than allowing culture to develop. However, there is genuine cause for concern about the rate at which cultures (African and non-African) are being undermined in a world that is bound together by ever-stronger economic ties.
4）More importantly, colonialism paved the way for today’s cultural globalization by leaving the colonized in a state of cultural disorientation and consequently vulnerable to continuing cultural invasion.
5）Production and consumption of cultural goods and services have become commodities, along with the essentials of social life (marriage and family life, religion, work and leisure), that are the crucibles of cultural creation.
6)The cumulative effect in Africa is a crisis of cultural confidence, combined with the increased economic uncertainty and crime which global integration often brings.
