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Class VDO blog English for Tourism

Let's celebrate Songkran festival

Further reading and exercise about Dos and Don'ts

Hi everyone, if you would like to do more exercise and read more about Dos and Don'ts for visiting a Buddhist Thai temple.
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Let's Role Play with your partners about Dos and Don'ts

Post Tasks (50 mins)

1) Role Play: (25 mins)

Play the roles of a tour guide and a tourist in pairs. In the situation, the tour guide introduces the do's and don'ts for visiting a temple.

2) Peer Review (25 mins)

Play back two randomly chosen role plays on the blog produced by the students. Give feedbacks on the Role Play according to the rubrics.

Let's have fun......

Let's practice the language use for Dos and Don'ts

Take turns with your partners construct questions and answers in order to practice the language focus rely on the given pictures. Then write short answer in the blog.
Example: The tourist wants to know whether or not s/he can take photo with a monk so s/he asks a tour guide.

Tourist: Can I take photo with a monk?

Guide:  Yes, but if you are a women, you shouldn't touch the monk or stay very close to him.

Now, it is your turn to create questions and answers relevant to the following 5 situations.

1. A tourist wants to know how to dress when visiting a Buddhist Thai temple, so s/he talks to a tour guide.

Tourist:

Guide:

2. A tourist wants to touch the holy Buddha image to have some good luck but s/he doesn't know whether or not s/he can do that..

Tourist:

Guide:

3. A tourist wants to wear sandals shoes when visiting a Buddhist Thai temple but s/he does not know whether it is acceptable or not so s/he asks a tour guide.

Tourist:

Guide:

4. A tourist wants to take photo of a very beautiful mural painting inside the Viharn but s/he does not know whether or not s/he can do that, so s/he asks a temple staff about it.

Tourist:

Guide:

5. A male tourist wants to wear tank tops and shorts when visiting a Buddhist Thai temple. So he talks to his tour guide:

Tourist:

Guide:

Please do the exercise in the following link

http://www.quia.com/quiz/5387806.html

Language Focus about Dos and Don'ts when visiting a Thai Buddhist temple

2) Language Focus:

• Good morning ladies and gentlemen, today I will be your tour guide.

• Are we going to visit a temple this morning?

• Yes, that’s right.

• Are there any rules we should know about?

• You should dress properly.

• Please take off your shoes.
• Please remove your shoes

• Take off your hat and fold your umbrella before entering the building.

• What do you mean by ‘dress properly’?
• You should wear shirts with sleeves and trousers or skirts that cover your knees.

• You shouldn't bare your shoulders.

• What should men wear when visiting a Buddhist Thai temple?
• Men should wear a shirt preferably one with sleeves
• They should wear something that cover at least their knees

•  What should women wear when visiting a Buddhist Thai temple?
• They should remember to keep shoulders covered and to leave spaghetti straps in revealing tank tops at home.

•  How about shoes? Can I wear sandals or flip flops?

• Sure, because anyway we need to remove our shoes before entering a temple.
• Yes, you can because anyway we need to remove our shoes before entering a temple.
• Can I take a photo inside the temple?
• Yes, you can, but you shouldn't use flash.

• May I take a photo with the monk?
• Yes, but if you are a woman, you shouldn't touch the monk or stay very close to him.

• Can I take a photo here?
• No, because there are signs saying ‘No photo and video’.

• If you take a photo you will be in trouble.
• Can I touch the Buddha image to have some good luck?

• No, the sign says ‘Do not touch’.
• Anything else?
• Do not shout or talk loud.

• Please be quiet.
• Do not show too much affection in the temple like kissing or hugging.

• May we move in?
• Let’s go.

• Are there any rules…………?
• There are several rules, firstly,............., secondly,………., and finally,………….
• You should……………
• You shouldn’t………….
• Women are not allowed to enter…
• Can I take a photo with…………?
• Can I wear....................................?
• What do you mean by………..?
• Could you please………..?
• What about……..?

Let's Role Play about giving suggestions to your tourists what to wear when visiting a Thai Buddhist temple.

1) Model Role Play: (25 mins)

You are going to watch a video clip, in which a tour guide and a tourist talk about the do's and don'ts for visiting a Buddhist Thai temple. Watch the video clip and fill in the blanks with the appropriate words. After that, video tape your role play of the video in pairs.

bare your shoulders	dress properly	touch the monk	use flash
historical objects	rules	shirts with sleeves	remove our shoes

Guide:            Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I am Annop and today I will be your tour guide.

Tourist: Good morning, Annop. Are we going to visit a temple this morning?

Guide:            Yes, that's right.

Tourist: Are there any           1          we should know about?

Guide: Well, you should           2          .

Tourist: What do you mean by "dress properly"?

Guide: You should wear           3          and trousers or skirts that cover your knees. And you shouldn’t           4         .

Tourist: How about shoes? Can I wear sandals or flip flops?

Guide:            Sure, because anyway we need to           5          before entering a temple.

Tourist: Can I take a photo inside the temple?

Guide: Yes, you can, but you shouldn’t           6          because it may cause damage to the site or object.

Tourist: Hmm…may I take a photo with the monk?

Guide: Yes, but if you are a woman, you shouldn’t           7           or stay very close to him.

Tourist: Oh, I see.

Guide:            Besides, you shouldn't touch the           8           or take anything from the site you visit.

Tourist: O.K., I won’t. Thanks for your suggestions.

Guide:            It’s my pleasure.

After watching the video clip, don't forget to complete the dialogue given above in the following web link here: http://www.quia.com/quiz/5338382.html

What to wear when visiting a Thai Buddhist temple?

Let's practice your listening skill:


Listen to the tour guide talking about the do's and don'ts in visiting a Buddhist Thai temple from the audio clip below:

If you want to see the tapescript you can download here.

Which pictures do you think they are allowed to wear when visiting a Buddhist Thai temple or the Grand Palace?





a)                b) 


c)                       d)      


From the audio clip and pictures presented above, don't forget to do Quiz 2.4 in the web link below:

http://www.quia.com/quiz/5336313.html

Suggestions for visiting a Thai Buddhist temple

Let's watch the video clip about visiting a Buddhist Thai temple from the web link

While watching the video, please answer the questions relevant to the video in the following web link

http://www.quia.com/quiz/5335723.html

Lesson 2 Social Etiquette for Visiting a Thai Buddhist temple_Warm-up 2

Warm-up activity 

1) Can you match the following phrases with the clothes in the following pictures?

Miniskirt	tank tops	sleeveless tops	sandals
shirts with sleeves	knee-torn jeans	trousers	flip flops
jeans short with fringes	bare shoulders	tops with straps	Sarongs

a)                            b)

c)                                  d)     

e)                             f)     

 g)                                  h)      
 i)                                       j)   

k)                                  l) 

Don't forget to do Quiz 2.1 in the given web link http://www.quia.com/quiz/5334777.html

2) Summarize which clothes in the above pictures are appropriate for visiting a Buddhist Thai temple in the table below. (5 mins)

Do	Don’t

For the warm-up activity 2, you can type your answer in the given tables above. 

Lesson 2 Social Etiquette for Visiting Thai Temples_Warm-up 1

Have you ever been to any Thai Buddhist temple? 

If yes, would you please share with us on the blog what we should dress or how we should behave when visiting a Buddhist Thai temple? 

Lesson 1 Songkran Festival_Post Task

Now it is your turn to integrate all the knowledge gained from the lesson to do the following:

1) Role Play:

Play the roles of a tour guide and a tourist in pairs. In the situation, the tour guide introduces the celebrations at Songkran Festival to the tourist, and the tourist asks the tour guide the questions he or she is interested in. While doing Role Play, don't forget to video tape and post in a blog so that your friends can give comments.

2) Peer Review (25 mins)

Choose two role plays randomly on the blog and give feedbacks on the Role Play according to the rubrics listed:

Let's have fun......

Lesson 1 Songkran Festival_Language Focus

Let's practice Role Play using the following language focus as follows:

 Language Focus:

• What does ‘Songkran’ mean?
• It is a Sanskrit word, meaning the transformation of the zodiac signs.

• When is the Songkran Festival?

• It is on April 13^th to 17^th.

• ·       How long do people in northern Thailand celebrate Songkran Festival?
•     How long does the Songkran Festival lasts?

• It usually lasts five days from April 13^th to 17^th.
• We celebrate the festival for five days from April 13^th to 17^th.

• How do people celebrate the Songkran Festival? / What do people do to celebrate the Songkran Festival? / What do people do on the following three days?
• They clean their houses.

• They take part in a procession of the revered Buddha image.

• They carry sand to a nearby temple to form pagodas and decorate them with colorful banners.

• They offer food and alms to the monks to make merit.

• The younger pays respect to the elders by pouring scented water on their palms.

• Would you please tell me more?
• April 13^th is called ‘Sangkhan Long’ day and considered as the last day of the year.
• In the morning, people will light firecrackers to chase away the evil from the past year.

• In the evening, a parade for the Chiang Mai’s significant Buddha statute will be organized around the city.

• How about April 14^th? / How about the following three days?
• What do people do on April 14th/.....................?
• April 14^th is called ‘Nao’ day so that swear words and rude manners are prohibited to avoid bad luck for a whole year.
• April 15^th is either called ‘Phaya’ day or “beginning of the new era”. So they offer food and alms to the monks to make merit.

• The younger pays respect to the elders by pouring scented water on their palms.
• 15^th is a day for making merit and paying respect to living parents and older relatives.

• 16^th is called ‘Pak Pi’ day. It is a day for people to pour water on the hands of the abbot from different temples.

• 17^th is called ‘Pak Duan’ day. On that day people will clean themselves to symbolize cleaning bad luck away.
• When can people splash water?
• When do people throw the water to each others?

• Every afternoon as long as it is hot.
• Make sure you don’t hurt people.
• When do people take part in a procession of the revered Buddha image?
• In the evening of April 13th, or on the Sangkhan Long day
• Where will you suggest to attend the water splashing ?

• Where is the good place to join the water splashing ?
• Where should I go for the water splashing ?
• I would suggest you go to Tha Pae gate.
• I recommend you the Tha Pae gate
• You should go to the moat area

• You'd better go to the Ping River
•  What should I prepare for the water splashing?
• What should I take to join the water splashing?
• You can take a gun water
• You should take a small bowl

•  I won’t. Let’s celebrate the Songkran Festival!

Take turns with your partners to create questions and answers in order to practice the language focus according to the given pictures, and then write your short answer in the blog. 

For example:

The tourist wants to know what activity the people do on April 13th to celebrate the Songkran festival.

Tourist: What do people do on April the 13th?
Guide: They clean their houses.

1. The activity to do on "Phya Day" that the youngsters show their respect to the elders.










Tourist:.............................................................................................
Guide:...............................................................................................

2. The first time tourist to Chiang Mai want to know where s/he should join the water splashing.




Tourist:.............................................................................................
Guide:...............................................................................................

3. The tourists want to take part in a procession of revered Buddha image.


 

Tourist:.............................................................................................

Guide:...............................................................................................

4. The tourists want to know what activity should do on "Nao Day" or April 14th.

 

Tourist:...............................................................................................

Guide:.................................................................................................

5. The tourists want to know what activity the people do on April 15th

 

Tourist:...............................................................................................

Guide:.................................................................................................

Now it is your turns to practice through quiz in the following link
http://www.quia.com/quiz/5387597.html