An Intercultural Approach in English Language Teaching

Activity 3 — The teacher and students bring real-life objects connected with a particular culture into the classroom, such as figurines, foodstuffs, clothes, jewelry, masks, musical instruments, and tapes or CDs with traditional music. The class discusses the uses and symbolic importance of these cultural artifacts. Short personal stories connected with them can be told as well (e.g., a student can tell about the occasion when she purchased a piece of jewelry at a Turkish bazaar). The whole activity is more enjoyable if some of the objects can be actually tried out (foodstuffs smelled and tasted, and musical instruments played).—

• Activity 3 — The teacher and students bring real-life objects connected with a particular culture into the classroom, such as figurines, foodstuffs, clothes, jewelry, masks, musical instruments, and tapes or CDs with traditional music. The class discusses the uses and symbolic importance of these cultural artifacts. Short personal stories connected with them can be told as well (e.g., a student can tell about the occasion when she purchased a piece of jewelry at a Turkish bazaar). The whole activity is more enjoyable if some of the objects can be actually tried out (foodstuffs smelled and tasted, and musical instruments played).—