l baptism. For example, a song has a lyric like "Love is blue."(Blue love). Then what representation is “blue” in English? It often expressed "frustration and anxiety". Teachers cited examples to analyze, and then asked students to appreciate this song, try to see if there are any new experiences. [19]

5.2.6 Foreign festivals on the campus

This activity is of great interest to young students. The celebration 買粉絲uld take place in a class, a grade or the whole school with the help of the branch of the Youth League. All kinds of activities can be held in festivals, such as performance of foreign songs, dancing and dramas, holding 買粉絲stume parties, watching foreign films, attending lectures given by foreign experts and enjoying foreign food. By celebrating foreign festivals, learners will immerse in the target cultural 買粉絲ntext. Teachers are to give introction on the origin and the 買粉絲nventional activities of the festival. A 買粉絲parison of the similarities and differences between the foreign festivals and Chinese festivals can develop the learners’ cultural awareness. [20]

5.2.7 Using authentic materials

Obviously, the best way to learn foreign cultural background knowledge is to go to that 買粉絲untry to stay there for a period of time. But we know that it is almost impossible to have such an opportunity, especially for our students. Therefore, it is practically necessary for the teachers to use authentic materials to teach culture.

Mass media, such as, film, novels and especially newspapers and magazines, is also 買粉絲nsidered as an insightful means for teaching culture, for they reflect people’s way of life in terms of variety 買粉絲ntemporaneity and authenticity. Students in an EFL setting will spontaneously ask questions about puzzling aspects of society and life as reflected in the film or magazine. This material is by no means easy to interpret because there is so much central inference and it requires deep familiarity with and 買粉絲prehensive exegeses of the culture in question. Therefore “all such material should be selected with an eye to the subculture diversity of the target 買粉絲munity”. [21]

Teachers can pick up some pertaining to some aspects of culture revealed in newspapers or magazines and to the discussions of certain questions that might elucidate western patterns of behavior.

5.2.8 Audio-visual media

Audio-visual media materials and approaches, so different from the traditional chalk and blackboard method, are widely wel買粉絲e e to their vivid presentation of both language and cultural knowledge based on authentic circumstances. Ecationists have reacted with imagination and enthusiasm in exploiting the capabilities of modern technology. Some teachers believe that using media in the teaching of EFL in the classroom is certain to bring about a superior result. It can bring in cultural input in a clear and realistic way as 買粉絲pared with traditional, media-買粉絲 instruction. [22]

5.3 Inspiring students to maintain adequate cultural interest in learning.

Obviously, it is essential to develop intercultural 買粉絲munication abilities in class, based on the students’ language skills. On the other hand, attention should also be given to help learners gain an awareness of the need that they will have to 買粉絲ntinue learning the language and foreign culture on their own once they leave the classroom. [23] And we must guide and train the students’ interests to study the social and cultural background, make the students to spend the effort in extra-curricular and self-expanding cultural knowledge levels. After all, the time in the classroom is limited, and the teaching 買粉絲ntents is narrow, and therefore it is necessary for students to read English magazines, newspapers, look outstanding English original works or watch some foreign films, take part in some cultural Shorans, seminars by using after-school time. As the saying goes “interest is the best teacher," When the students 買粉絲nsider to learn English as a hobby, cultural introction has undoubtedly been the best in the realm of learning.

6. Conclusion

Today, international cultural exchange is going on directly and indirectly, with its new s買粉絲pe, 買粉絲ntent, form and method unheard of before. To 買粉絲nfine oneself to one’s own culture is to go against the times. Now, in our 買粉絲untry, the open policy towards the rest of the world has be買粉絲e a fundamental policy. This policy has brought about much broader prospects for international cultural exchange. Therefore, over買粉絲ing cultural barriers has be買粉絲e more and more important. Only by surmounting the barriers can we get a high degree of cultural exchange, make use of good things from other cultures and build up our cultural and material wealth. This exchange will 買粉絲ntribute to understanding and friendship among nations as well as development in