2. Orientation Week
Pre-class Learning：Watch the video and have the overview of the orientation week, then finish the following tasks.
Topic: Think about it and share your opinions on the online forum.
1. What is your first week impression on your college life？
（cues: enrollment, faculty, upperclassmen, dormitory, etc.）
2. What is your most concern when entering into a new college？
（cues: dormitory, course, teacher, food, etc.）
Test: Please watch the video online and answer the questions in the form.
Please answer the following questions according to what you have learned from the video.
1. What does orientation week mean?
2. How long is the orientation week?
3. What should international students do during orientation week?
4. If you have some security problem, what should you do？
Wordlist
Glossary
In-class Learning
Skill Tips
Advice for Orientation week
•Upload your orientation schedule: various programs, activities, tours launched in orientation week
•Access your online-system: oversea students use their uni-account to receive and deliver all messages with college
•Connect to your free Wi-Fi: free Wi-Fi is available all around the campus
•Sort out your student card: student cards could be used in many places around the campus
•Checkout your details: update your personal information
•Locate your support service: clinic, financial support, student center, accommodation, counselling office, etc.
•Campus security: remember emergency phone number
How to break ice when you first meet someone
•Smile, handshake, bow
•Appreciation, praise
•Talk about common interests or hot news
•Self-introduction
Reading Text
Student Club Spotlight: Overseas Travel Club
The Overseas Travel Club is one of the cultural and international clubs at Cazenovia College. It provides students with opportunities unlike any other club on campus. Students have the opportunity to travel overseas for week-long, life-changing trips. Each year, the student club president and staff supervisor choose a destination for the upcoming academic year. Places selected include Australia, England, France, Greece, Ireland, and New Zealand. A group of students are currently travelling to Italy and the next destination is Spain.
This year's club presidents—Erin Willis, interior design senior, and Erin Grabosky, studio art junior—say the Overseas Travel Club pushes people to get out of their comfort zone. Travelling far, and often with a new group of people, can leave students feeling unsettled. Some club members are travelling for the first time. Students use the experience to broaden their cultural experiences and overcome anxieties, while making lifelong friends.
“Travelling long distances brings people together,” says Willis. “I went into the club not knowing anyone and now I talk to its members every day.”
Overseas Travel Club not only do students become close friends through the club, they also become experienced travelers and mentors for the first-time travelers in the club. Attributes of the Overseas Travel Club are that an individual can join anytime, and the trips are open not only to students, but also to the whole college community. In addition, it is not necessary to be a committed member of the club to take part in the trips, but club members do get the benefit of helping to choose future trips.
Students who want to take part in the club, but feel they cannot afford the trips can use club-sponsored fundraisers to help offset travel expenses. These fundraisers help students who need financial support to participate in a trip.
The Overseas Travel Club is the perfect club for anyone with the travel bug looking to experience a new country, or for students who have never traveled and want the experience in a safe, guided, group setting. Students looking to expand their horizons, meet like-minded individuals, and experience new cultures could benefit greatly from the Overseas Travel Club.
Students interested in the club or upcoming trips can email club presidents Erin Willis（ecwillis @ cazenovia. edu）or Erin Grabosky（ekgrabosky@ cazenovia. edu）. Club advisor HEOP Associate Director Sheila Marsh（smarsh@cazenovia. edu）is also available to answer questions.
（adapted from the website http://cazenovia.edu/news-and-events/news/student-club-spotlight-overseas-travel-club）
Question 1: What is the biggest difference between oversea travel club and other clubs？
Question 2: What is the benefit of travelling abroad for club members？
Question 3: If someone have financial problems, what should he/she do to join the trip？
Question 4: Who are available to answer questions？
Project
Let us act out how we start a talk when we meet a new friend during the orientation week.
Step 1: Try to find out common interests with your foreign classmates. Or if you don't have foreign classmates, please imagine which common interests you will have. For example, clubs, food, courses, faculty, teachers, dormitory, etc.
Step 2: Suppose you are at the orientation week. You are starting a chat with other students at the faculty welcome party. Use strategies you have learned from the skills tips.
Model dialogue
A: Hi, I'm…（name）, how are you?
B: Fine, thank you. I'm…（name）. How are you?
A: I'm good. I'm from Shanghai and study marketing here.
B: It is great! Oh, What do you think of this party? Do you like it?
A: Yes. I like it. It is fantastic with so many tasty food and warm people.
B: Exactly！
Dialogue 1：
（substitute: name, hometown, opinion, etc.）
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