■ intro
1. How
was the week? what did you do?
2. Show
some of your pictures in your mobile phone, and explain about the pictures.
■ Topic – How to deal with culture shock
Today,
many people can easily travel to other countries. But in the past, it was
difficult to visit other countries. This was because there were no cars or
airplanes. People had to walk to get somewhere. So visiting a faraway place
wasn’t very easy. But now, we
can go anywhere within a day by airplane. It is possible to eat breakfast in
Seoul and have lunch in Tokyo! Isn’t it great?
Visiting
other countries is so much fun. We can meet different people and eat different
foods. We can also learn many new things. Each country has different cultures.
But sometimes experiencing different culture can make us feel uncomfortable.
Questions
1. Have
you ever been to abroad? What was the most shocking culture you have
experienced?
2. You may
think that it would be good for Korean people to learn cultures from other
countries. Can you introduce to members which ones would be good?
3. If some
foreigners don’t know about Korean culture
and courtesy and do something wrong in their behavior, what will you talk to
them?
4. Do you
or will you have foreign friends? If so, what will you teach or let them know
of Korean culture at first?
5. Do you
think different cultures matter in life?
■ Topic –SNS
A social
networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on
building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people,
who, for example, share interests and/or activities. A social network service
essentially consists of a representation of each user (often a profile),
his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network
services are web based and provide means for users to interact over the
Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging.
Online
community services are sometimes considered as a social network service, though
in a broader sense, social network service usually means an individual-centered
service whereas online community services are group-centered. Social networking
sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within
their individual networks.
The main
types of social networking services are those which contain category places
(such as former school year or classmates), means to connect with friends
(usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to
trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with Facebook and Twitter
widely used worldwide,
Nexopia
(mostly in Canada); bebo, Vkontakte, Hi5, Hyves (mostly in The Netherlands),
Draugiem.lv (mostly in Latvia), StudiVZ (mostly in Germany), iWiW (mostly in
Hungary), Tuenti (mostly in Spain), Nasza-Klasa (mostly in Poland), Nyx.cz
(mostly in Czech Republic), Decayenne, Tagged, XING, Badoo and Skyrock in parts
of Europe; Orkut and Hi5 in South America and Central America; and Friendster,
Mix, Multiply, Orkut, Wretch, renren and Cyworld in Asia and the Pacific
Islands and Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Orkut are very popular in India.
There have
been attempts to standardize these services to avoid the need to duplicate
entries of friends and interests (see the FOAF standard and the Open Source
Initiative). A 2011 survey found that 47% of American adults used a social
network
Questions
1. Do you
use SNS service such as cyworld, facebook and twitter?
Why do you
use them?
2. What’s the pros and cons of
using SNS?
3. What
about messenger? Do you like to use it during work or school?
4. Do you
usually check your ex-boy/girl friend’s SNS?
5. Do you
share your SNS password with your boy/girl friend?
6. What do
you usually do when you use computer?