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
23. Honeymoon/Tourist 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
25. 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
27. 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
29. 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
31. Re-entry 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
32. 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
33. 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.
34. 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.
35. 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.
36. 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.
37. 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.
38. 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 graduated
from Nankai University. He was accepted into
Harvard University as a masters’ student. He has
never been to America before and 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
