A French Fourth

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Unit 6

• A French Fourth

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Presentation

• Cultural Assimilation
• What has Happened to Chinese Tradition in
  Globalization?
• How to Preserve Cultural Identity in
  Globalization?

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Text related questions

1. What about the author and his family?
2. How do you understand the title?
3. What do you think is the main idea of the text?
4. What is the authors view on globalization?

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Structural Analysis

• Part I His way of celebrating his home countrys
  National Day.
• Part II Contrastive analysis on the costs and
  benefits of the expatriated people.
• Part III Effect of globalization

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Part I His way of celebrating

• Expressions to Be Learned
• fold in ones minds eye
• prompt suppress

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Part I His way of celebrating

• Paraphrase
• July 4 is one of the times whenis prompted to
  try to fill the gaps.
• ? July 4 is one of the times I, as a native
  American, feel instinctively uneasy about the
  gaps in our childrens understanding of their
  American identity, and thus I am motivated to do
  something to make them know more about their
  identity.

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Part I His way of celebrating

• Questions for review
• 1. Why does the writer hang
• the American flag on July 4th?
• 2. Why do some Americans go back home for they
  summer?
• 3. How do Americans celebrate their National Day
  according to the text?

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Part II Analysis on costs and benefits

• Expressions to Be Learned
• mix sb/sth up expose
• convey launch swell
• pursue

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Part II Analysis on costs and benefits

• paraphrase
• And our physical separation
• from our native land is not much
• of an issue.
• ?Living away from our native country does not
  matter much in our childrens acquisition of our
  native language.

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Part II Analysis on costs and benefits

• Questions for review
• What does paragraph 4 convey to you?
• Was the purpose of the summer travel in U. S
  achieved?
• What are the benefits and costs as expatriates?

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Part III effect of globalization

• Expressions to Be Learned
• resonate personify
• access immerse

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Part III effect of globalization

• Paraphrase
• In my day little French kids looked like nothing
  other than little French kids.
• ?When I lived in France as an expatriated child,
  the French kids looked quite different from their
  counterparts in other countries.

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Part III effect of globalization

• Paraphrase
• That experience no longer seems possiblein my
  view.
• ?Full immersion in a truly foreign world no
  longer seems possible in Western countries, and I
  think this is a deplorable impact of
  globalization upon the growth of children in a
  foreign country.

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Part III effect of globalization

• Questions for review
• Why does the author recall his own experience as
  a child in paragraph 10?
• What are the differences between the author and
  his children as expatriates at about their same
  age? What is the cause?
• What is the authors view on globalization? Why?
• What is the effects of globalization?