Advanced Study of Thai

Applications Due: February 22, 2013

CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES (N.B. Details will vary for 2013)

Week/ Lesson

Topic

Function

1/1

 Family and relatives Describe self, personal background

1/2

 Meeting people in Thailand Describe self, personal background

2/3

 Marriage rites & ceremonies Personal background Experiential activity: Interview someone about his or her marriage and reaction to it.

2/4

 Life in the village and city Comparisons and contracts

3/5

 Levels of language usage, Register shifts Experiential activity: A trip to the night market for conversation with people and merchants from a variety of different social groups.

3/6

 Exercise, rest, hobbies extended descriptions

4/7

 Beliefs in fortune telling, Description, abstract topics omens, ghosts, spirits

4/8

 Religion, death, funerals, discussing abstract topics Experiential activity: A visit to a Buddhist temple for conversation with the monks,discussing Buddhism and their role in the temple

5/9

 Education giving opinions, discussing abstract topics

5/10

 Occupations Discussing work, completing applications, evaluating applications

6/11

 The environment Giving opinions, supporting and opposing, opinions, debating, abstract topics

6/12

 Human rights, social inequities,expressing and supporting opinions Experiential activity: A weekend field trip in northern Thailand to observe the changes in environment and village life, including a visit to a center or the conservation and preservation of forest elephants. Sites of historic importance will also be visited in order to provide contexts for discussions on culture, religion, the environment, and social issues.

7/13

 Politics and goverment, hypothesizing, supporting opinions Experiential activity: Discipline-specific site visit(s), i.e., studying the broader social impact of the current economic crisis.

7/14

 Organizing interview topic Eliciting opinions, setting background, abstract and formal discussion

7/15

 Preparing interview topics Formal prose structures (oral and written)

8/16

 Presenting interview results orally Strategies in public speaking and in writing (Introducing the topic, citing evidence, presenting examples, comparing and contrasting, illustrating points, expressing opinions, making suggestions, emphasizing, supplementing, summarizing, etc.)

8/17

 Locating an audience Publicity, formal discourse

8/18

 Evaluation discourse Soliciting, evaluating and reporting, on reactions, formal strategies

 

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