Culture capsule can be done in different ways. Usually it is done by the teacher who may give a brief presentation about a certain topic, and then encourage the whole class to have a discussion about it or make comparisons between the differences of Chinese and Western cultures. And the other way to do it is to ask students to prepare for certain topics outside class beforehand, and make presentation during class time in five to ten minutes, then the teacher can give some supplement and evaluation on their performance.

　　Take Unit 1 “Festivals around the World” in Book 3 of NSEFC for example, the teacher can give students an introduce of the most important festivals in Western countries by showing them some pictures, the introduction can include the origins, times of the festivals, and the ways of celebrating, and so on. After the presentation, students can have a discussion on their favorite Western festivals and give their reasons. Also, students can be encouraged to make comparisons between the Chinese festivals and Western festivals.

　　The concept of culture cluster has been developed by Meada and Morain, is an elaboration of culture capsules. Culture clusters are combinations of conceptually related culture capsules or they are a major set of activities broken up into its constituent parts. Two or more capsules that belong together can form a cluster(Stern, 1999:225). For instance, to teach about “education” in the United States, some related topics could be introduced such as primary education, secondary school education and higher education. Culture capsules and culture clusters are good strategies for giving students some intellectual knowledge about the cultural aspects being explained.

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