英语综合教程2 Unit1 TaxtA翻译.pptVIP

Introduction Introductory Questions What is the general meaning of the word “culture”? What does the word “culture” mean to those who study humankind? How do we learn the ways of our culture? What leads to the cultural differences? Do you agree with the idea that what is beautiful differs from one culture to another? If yes, can you give some examples? Outline Para 1 The word “culture” has many different meanings. For example, we sometimes say that people who know about art, music, and literature are cultured. However, the word culture has a different meaning for anthropologists (people who study humankind). To an anthropologist the word culture means all the ways in which a group of people act, dress, think, and feel. People have to learn the cultural ways of their community: they are not something that the people in the group are born with. Para 2 Instinctive behaviour, on the other hand, is a pattern of behaviour that an animal is born with. Spiders spinning their webs is an example of instinctive behaviour. The mother spider does not teach her babies how to spin webs. (In fact, she is not even there when they are born.) They know how to do it when they are born. This is what we mean by instinctive behaviour. Para 3 As humans, we learn some of the ways of our culture by being taught by our teachers or parents. We learn more of the ways of our culture by growing up in it. We see how other people in our culture do things, and we do them the same way. We even learn how to think and feel in this way. Para 4 All human beings have certain basic needs, such as eating, drinking, keeping warm and dry. However, the way in which they take care of these needs depends on the culture in which they grow up. All cultures have ways of eating, drinking, dressing, finding shelter, marrying, and dealing with death. The foods that we think are good to eat, the kinds of clothes we wear, and how many people we can marry at one time are all parts of