2. Overseas Living Survey
• Each two students will be given one
survey question about living in a different
country
• For several minutes, each student should
ask their question to as many of their
classmates as possible
• Pairs will then be asked to summarize the
answers that they heard in 30 seconds or
less
3. Vocabulary Matching
• Every student will be given either a word or a
definition
• WITHOUT consulting a dictionary, students
with the words must find the classmate who
has the correct definition to their word
• When you think you have a match, confirm with
the teacher that you are correct
• Sit together in a group of two for the next
assignment
25. Honeymoon Stage
• New culture seems new and exciting
• You idealize your new culture and
may even consider it better than your
own
• If you sometimes have problems, you
quickly recover
• Can last anywhere from a few days
to several months
27. Shock Stage
• All little problems seem much bigger
• You consider everything to be dirty or
unhealthy
• You try to find people from your own
country and spend a lot of time
complaining about the new culture
• You miss your own culture and
country a lot
29. Adjustment Stage
• You manage to combine the new
culture with your own beliefs
• You begin to learn the language and
adapt to the habits of the new culture
• You make friends with people from
the new culture
• You are able to laugh at your
difficulties
31. Acceptance Stage
• You can now live with your new
culture
• You go through changes to better
adapt to the new culture
• You do not totally change to the new
culture, but you have developed a
good understanding of your new
culture
33. Re-entry Shock Stage
• You return home and everyone is
happy to see you
• The problem is that you have
changed a lot and others have not
• People do not understand that you
have changed
• People get tired of hearing you talk
about your experiences abroad
34. Culture Shock Scenarios
• Take the 15 scenarios and put them into 5
groups of 3 based on the 5 stages of culture
shock:
1)Honeymoon Stage
2)Shock Stage
3)Adjustment Stage
4)Acceptance Stage
5)Re-Entry Shock Stage
35. Honeymoon Stage
• John takes his camera with him wherever he
goes and takes pictures of everything, even
street signs.
• John visits the Statue of Liberty and Times
Square and is very excited to see these famous
landmarks.
• John loves the variety of food available and
wants to try all kinds of different food.
36. Shock Stage
• John takes the bus and is extremely
embarrassed and frustrated when he doesn’t
know where and how to pay and the driver
cannot understand his question.
• Other than going to class, John spends all his
time with his Chinese roommates, mostly
complaining about all the annoying parts of
American life.
• John often feels sick in his stomach and misses
his mother’s dumplings.
37. Adjustment Stage
• John still misses his mother’s cooking, but has
found some American food that he likes.
• John makes friends with some American boys
and they often play basketball together.
• John orders some food on the phone for the
first time, successfully completing his first
English phone call.
38. Acceptance Stage
• John has learned to keep a certain distance
between himself and others when they are
talking.
• John has learned to drink cold water and
doesn’t miss drinking hot water.
• John feels mostly comfortable with life in New
York and can accomplish almost any task by
himself.
39. Re-entry Shock Stage
• John’s friends in China throw a big party for
him upon his return.
• John’s friends gradually get tired of his
“America stories”.
• John fakes laughing at his friends’ same old
jokes, but doesn’t find them funny anymore.
40. Assignment
• In your groups, create a 2 minute role play based
on the your assigned stage of culture shock and
the following situation:
Chris is a Chinese student who recently
completed his undergraduate degree at Nankai
University. He was accepted into Harvard
University as a masters’ student. He has never
been to America before, and as he arrives, he
struggles to adapt to American life.
• Each member of your group must use at least 2 of
the 10 vocabulary words learned earlier today
