T will ask Ss about last week’s theme and try to elicit the word ‘culture’ from them. Then, T will ask about the concepts (words) that they remember from last week such as monuments, sculpture, buildings.

T will provide 5 vocabulary items that Ss may need to better understand the reading text. T will present the vocabulary items with ECDW. 1: Visual arts: T will project 4 different images of visual arts in one slide and will try to elicit from Ss: What is this? (pointing at different images on the board; a painting, photograph or sculpture) If Ss donot say the word T will tell try giving clues like it is a phrase (It has two words). If this doesnot work too, T will tell the phrase and continue with CCQ. CCQ: Do we use the term for TV Shows? No. Do we use the term for filmmaking? Yes. Then, T will drill the phrase and show it in written form on the slide. T will also include the pronunciation. There will also be an example sentence on the slide. 2: Unique: What do we see in the picture? Why does the hand choose the red one? CCQ: Do we use it for the things or people that are usual or ordinary? No. Do we use it because it has a special characteristics in this situation? Yes. 3. citizenship: T will show her ID to Ss and: What is this? What can I do with this ID in Turkey? What rights do I have? (If have a Turkish ID, what is my status in this country? I am a …….of Turkey.) CCQ: Can I vote for the elections in Turkey? Yes. Do I need permission to enter Turkey? No. 4. immigrant: Who are these people? Where are they now, do you think? Where are they from? When somebody goes to another country to live there, what do we call them? T makes it clear that immigrant doesnot have negative connotation that they have the right to live in America. CCQ: Were they born in America? No. Can they have a house in America? Yes. 5. community: What do you see in this picture? Who are they? What are they doing? Do they live together? What do we call a group of people living together? CCQ: Do they live in different places? No. Do they live together? Yes.

T will ask Ss to finish the sentence: Culture is …… . In pairs, Ss will think about their own definition of culture. Time limit: 1 min. Then T will ask Ss to read the text ‘Towards a definition of culture’ and to find out whether their definitions are in the text. T will ask Ss to complete the text with the sentences in ex. 3. There will be one extra sentence that they do not need. T will ask them ICQs in case Ss are not clear about the task: - How many blanks are there in the text? 5 - How many sentences do we have? 6 - Are you going to use ALL of the sentences? No. Time limit: 4 min. Then, in pairs, Ss will check their answers. T will project the answer key on the board after pair check. T will ask Ss to go to ex. 4 and, using the information in the text, Ss will categorise the questions into those about ‘culture with a capital C’ and those about ‘culture with a small c’. In order to make it sure that Ss have understood about this categorisation, T will nominate a S and ask the question 1 in the exercise; ‘What does the word Australia mean?’ ‘IS it ‘culture with a capital C or small c?’ T will write the answer for the question on the board as ‘Capital C’. Time limit: 2 min.

T will ask Ss to read the text again and give them the paper on which there are comprehension questions. Then, in pairs Ss will check their answers. T will give the answer key to Ss and clarify Ss’ answers. Time limit: 5 min.

T will ask Ss to write between two or four questions about culture. It may be about national culture or international culture. Ex: Who wrote Hamlet? Or What do people eat in Italy? Ss will write the questions individually, and T will ask them not to show the questions to any of their friends. Ss will include a mixture of ‘culture with a capital C’ and ‘culture with a small c’ questions. Time limit: 3 min. ICQ1: Are you going to write questions about just ‘culture with a capital C’? No. Both. ICQ2: Are you going to hide your questions? (definitely) Yes. T will ask students to form groups of 4 (4x6 students) according to the numbers T will give them as 1-2-3-4. Then, Ss will read their questions to each other and check if they are correctly formed. Ss will choose the most interesting eight questions which will be their quiz. ICQ: Are you going to check them first in your group? Yes. ICQ2: Are you going to choose 5 most interesting questions? No. (8 interesting questions) Time limit: 4 min. Ss will work with another group, read out their questions and the other group tries to answer them. Then they will swap roles. T will ask which group got the most answers correct. Time limit: 6 min.