【正文】 provide students with English introductions about how to find a table reserved, how to order and how to pay and so on, which can then be displayed in students39。 reading prehension ability, language and municative petence. There are many culturalloaded words in reading materials. Words are the most dynamic part in language and have rich cultural connotation. If students only know the literal meaning of those words and don’t know the difference in Englishspeaking countries, there will be misunderstanding. In English teaching, teachers should explain the cultural meaning of these English words, which will not only broaden students39。I’m feeling rather blue39。s your name?Mrs. Green: My name is Mrs. Green.Meimei: How old are you?Mrs. Green: Ah. It39。d better say Good morning, Sir/Madam or Good morning, Mr. / Mrs. Wang. In China, we often address members of our family, relatives or close neighbors as “二哥、三姐、四嬸、周大伯” which should not be carried over into English. In English, the name alone would be enough. It should be mentioned that in English Uncle and Auntie or something like that should be followed by a given name, not a family name, such as Uncle Tom and Aunt Mary. Therefore, Uncle Wang is a way of Chinese thinking style in English. In China, elderly people like to be called “老李”, “老王”, from which they feel they are much respected and therefore greatly satisfied. China is a country in which old people are respected. The older a person is, the more respected he is. Students are told to avoid such words as old and elderly when municating with English native speakers. Chinese students may not quite know that Americans hate to be called the old. In America, they say senior citizen instead of old people. Greetings In everyday life, people always greet each other when they meet people ing from different cultural backgrounds. Proper greetings are sure to be a good beginning of a munication, and they can help us build up a good social relationship. It is essential for students to know how to greet to native speakers. They say Good morning! or Hello/Hi! when meeting in the morning, instead of Chinese saying: Have you had breakfast yet? For westerner the greeting might mean this: I haven’t either. Come on, let39。 understand the author39。s more，our country has been taking effective measures to further the policy of reform and openingup. Consequently, more and more cooperative and exchanging programs will be held between China and foreign countries. There should be more students with intercultural petence to meet this need. It’s necessary to municate with people from different cultural backgrounds. The modernization process accelerate the circulation of spiritual and material products, and bring all nationalities into a mon global village, crosscultural munication bees an integral part of national life, yet cultural differences are the barriers of crosscultural munication. If people do not understand the cultural convention in the USA or Britain, and use the way of China to treat foreigners, then it will create a lot of jokes, and even hurt each other39。畢業(yè)論文(設(shè)計(jì)) Cultivation of Students39。 on the other hand, language will lose its content and meaning if it separates from culture. Language is closely related to culture, they develop together in the matural effects and influences. Therefore, teaching English well means more than merely teaching students the vocabulary, structures, and grammars. It also means teaching them how to slip into the English culture. Learners should be informed of how native English speakers see the world and how the English language reflects the ideas, customs, and behavior of their society. As we look back to see the situation in China’s schools, from the perspective of NEEC(National Entrance Examination for Colleges), English is considered to be important to all senior school students. However, for most students, the motivation of learning English is just a means to pass the exams and get high scores in English tests. And English teachers are just to help students reach this goal. Students spend most of the time on learning vocabulary, structures and grammar through lots of drills, practice and consolidation so as to memorize those knowledge, yet cultural knowledge is ignored. In this case, culture is often separated from its carrierlanguage. Both teachers and students’ cultural awareness are poor. As Chinese culture is not the same as that of Englishspeaking countries, the rules for using Chinese are, in some respects, different from those using English. The lack of culture knowledge leads to the failure in munication. Thus cultural education in senior English bees absolutely necessary.2. The necessity and significance of improving cultural awareness in senior English teaching The request of the development of Internationalization China has now bee a formal member of WTO, Beijing will host the Olympic Games in 2008. What39。ve got a little headache. He might want to depart or not want to stay here any more. By this time, you would not have the habit of Chinese people to ask him how he feels. If he really feels unfortable he will say straightly. Reading English reading ability is a prehensive ability. If one wants to read an article, find out the main idea, use the information provided by the articles for inference, judgment, reasoning, he or she must master not only English language knowledge, but also a certain degree of expertise or background knowledge. When students are reading an article, although they don’t encounter a new word, have no grammatical obstacles and understand the literal meaning of each sentence, they cannot understand the overall effect of the article content and the main idea. Therefore, when we are training students’ reading abilities, we must base on training them to understand the whole passage or paragraph so that they can understand and bee familiar with the material and cult