Hunan Cross Cultural Education » Ireland http://hunancce.com/blog bringing cultures together through education Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:10:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Fall ’10 Week 12: (Units 13 & 14 – Ireland: Culture, Lifestyle, Language, Literature & Art) http://hunancce.com/blog/2010/fall-10-week-12/ http://hunancce.com/blog/2010/fall-10-week-12/#comments Tue, 30 Nov 2010 06:01:17 +0000 Steve http://hunancce.com/blog/?p=566 This week’s lesson covered units 13 & 14  from the textbook which concludes our study of Ireland and takes a look at The Culture, Lifestyle and Language (unit 13) and Literature & Art (unit 14).

If you would like to have the PPT slides from this week’s class, click HERE to view or download them.

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This post is for my students at the Hunan Institute of Science & Technology ( 湖南理工学院 ) who are taking the course: “The Society and Culture of Major English-Speaking Countries ( 英语国家社会与文化入门 ) : An Introduction (Book One / Second Edition)“

]]> http://hunancce.com/blog/2010/fall-10-week-12/feed/ 0 Fall ’10 Week 11: (Units 11 & 12 – Ireland: Land, People & History, Politics & Economy) http://hunancce.com/blog/2010/fall-10-week-11/ http://hunancce.com/blog/2010/fall-10-week-11/#comments Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:01:16 +0000 Steve http://hunancce.com/blog/?p=557 This week’s lesson covered units 11 & 12  from the textbook which introduces Ireland and takes a look at The Land, People & History (unit 11) and Politics & the Economy (unit 12).

If you would like to have the PPT slides from this week’s class, click HERE to view or download them.

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This post is for my students at the Hunan Institute of Science & Technology ( 湖南理工学院 ) who are taking the course: “The Society and Culture of Major English-Speaking Countries ( 英语国家社会与文化入门 ) : An Introduction (Book One / Second Edition)“

]]> http://hunancce.com/blog/2010/fall-10-week-11/feed/ 0 Society & Culture Review – Fall ’09 http://hunancce.com/blog/2009/society-culture-review-fall-09/ http://hunancce.com/blog/2009/society-culture-review-fall-09/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:16:58 +0000 Steve http://hunancce.com/blog/?p=309 This week was the final week of class for those in my “The Society and Culture of Major English-Speaking Countries ( 英语国家社会与文化入门 ) “ class.

We covered units 18 & 19 which touched on Australian politics and the phenomenon known as “whistle-blowing”.  Then we did a quick review of the major topics covered this semester (units 1 – 17).

Week 16: Australia, Politics (Unit 18 – 19 + Review)

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This post is for my students at the Hunan Institute of Science & Technology ( 湖南理工学院 ) who are taking the course: “The Society and Culture of Major English-Speaking Countries ( 英语国家社会与文化入门 ) : An Introduction (Book One / Second Edition)“

]]> http://hunancce.com/blog/2009/society-culture-review-fall-09/feed/ 0 Week 8 – 12 Presentation Notes http://hunancce.com/blog/2009/week-8-12-presentation-notes/ http://hunancce.com/blog/2009/week-8-12-presentation-notes/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:12 +0000 Steve http://hunancce.com/blog/?p=292 This post is for my students at the Hunan Institute of Science & Technology ( 湖南理工学院 ) who are taking the course: “The Society and Culture of Major English-Speaking Countries ( 英语国家社会与文化入门 ) : An Introduction (Book One / Second Edition)”

With the mid-term projects and the flu going around, posts to this site have been a bit delayed.  So this post is to catch us up.

Here are the presentation notes from weeks 8 – 12:

Week 8: UK – The Media, Sports, Holidays & Festivals (Units 9&10)

Week 9: UK – Review & Mid-Term Group Work (Units 1-10)

Week 10: Mid-Term Group Presnetations

Week 11: Ireland – Land, People & History, Politics & Economy (Units 11&12)

Week 12: Ireland – Culture, Lifestyle, Language, Literature & Art (Units 13&14)

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