Alcohol

Teacher Day Time Branch TA Class Resources needed: Hand outs Optional: plastic cups, a couple ping pong balls, a few big bottles of water Stage: Page: Time:10 min Aim: Students will familiarize themselves with the relevant vocab needed to complete the lesson. Method: The teacher will write vocab words from page 10 in the lesson resource booklet on the board along with simple definitions of each word. Teacher will then run a simple read and repeat drill to ensure that the words are being pronounced correctly. The students will then be divided into groups and be given a handout containing the vocab words and definitions and will drill each other in groups on the definitions and pronunciation of each word. While this exercise is going on the teacher should be walking each table or group to ensure proper classroom behavior and proper pronunciation is being implemented Teacher should correct problems on a reasonable level to avoid classroom interruption. Comments10min Stage: Page: Time:15 Aim: Students with further familiarize themselves with the above vocab by putting words into specific context. Method: The students will be given all handouts with the discussion articles. Working in the same teams as before the students will scan the articles looking for all relevant vocab words. Once the students have found each word they must create their own sentences from the words found in the handout. After the students complete their sentences one member from each group will be elected to read 5 of the 17 sentences aloud to the class. The teacher will correct issues that may arise in grammar, pronunciation, etc. Comments 25 mins Stage: Page: Time:15 Aim: Students will read the first two articles in order to better prepare themselves for a class discussion. Method: The teacher will read the articles aloud with the students following along. Then one student from each group will be elected to read aloud to their peers. The teacher should be walking the class to correct any errors.

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Aim: Students will participate in a discussion about the pros and cons of alcohol. Method: Using the questions provided on pages 5 in your lesson booklet, try to generate a classroom discussion. Try to keep your interactions with the class to a minimum to ensure the students are speaking 80% of the time.

Comments 55 Stage: Page: Time:15 Aim: Students will continue the above conversation with the relevant topic Method: The students will role play a court room scene in which one side is defending the consumption and sale of alcohol in its current form and the other is for further restrictions including banning alcohol. The teacher is to play the role of the judge while two elected students from each group plead their case. Once both sides are taken into account the teacher may make a ruling in any favor he or she sees fit. (usually play devils advocate to generate more discussion ie. If the majority of the students agree on the free sale of alcohol rule in favor of a ban) Hopefully your ruling will generate further discussion.

Comments 70 Stage: Page: Time:10 min Aim: Students will exchange some culture with the teacher on the topic of drinking games Method: Hand out the last two articles on the lighter side of drinking on pages 3 + 4 Have a round robin style relay in which one sentence from each paragraph is read by a different student selected at random (to ensure they are paying attention) once the student is finished another is selected until the article is complete. Repeat with second article. Comments 80 Stage: Page: Time:10 min Aim: Students will talk more about the topic of drinking games. Method: Open the conversation with your own favorite drinking games. This conversation should be light and humorous to encourage the students to open up with their own bar stories and possibly drunken exploits. If the discussion drags you can refer to the questions on page 5.

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China acknowledges alcohol abuse problems

Taken from http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2005/07/02/china-alcohol050702.html

For the first time, delegates from China are attending an international convention of Alcoholics Anonymous, five years after the group established itself in the Asian country. More than 45,000 people are expected at this weekend's annual convention in Toronto, held on AA's 70th anniversary. In the past, the Chinese government has disapproved of, and often banned, groups like Alcoholics Anonymous. But officials warmed to the organization after two Chinese doctors introduced AA at a hospital, after observing an earlier convention. One of China's five delegates attending the international meeting in Toronto, told CBC News he's one of the first Chinese citizens to join the group. The man, identified as Ma, said China has a history of drinking, but those with problems were not getting help. Ma said it was hard to get the message out that alcoholism is a disease and not a moral problem. Right now, there are only 50 AA members in China, including a man named Cheng who brought with him a statistic showing people need to be educated about problem drinking. Cheng, himself a member of AA, said as many as 30 million Chinese people suffer from alcoholism and many don't know it. He said this convention is showing him that alcoholism is an illness that affects people around the world, and that's a message he'll bring back to his meetings. Both Ma and Cheng said AA in China started like the original AA 70 years ago, with two people trying to make a difference. The 70th anniversary meeting marks the day when two Americans formed the organization - William Griffth Wilson, known in AA circles as "Bill W." and physician Robert Smith, or "Dr. Bob."

The risks and benefits of drinking alcohol

Taken from http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/14146.php

Scientists, doctors and the media have taken two sides to the debate over the positive and negative effects of alcohol consumption. While excessive drinking can lead to a number of health problems, recent studies have revealed that a daily moderate intake of alcohol may decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes and may help to ward of Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia. Genetic variations and predisposition have major input into the effects on the individual.

Drinking Games
Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_drinking_records

Drinking games are games which involve the drinking of beer or other alcoholic beverages. These games commonly take place at house parties, public bars or pubs. Often the objectives are to either simply drink competitively for speed or to win via others becoming too drunk to continue playing. Participants are primarily college students, young adults and high school students. The games are often designed in a way that being inebriated significantly increases their fun factor. History According to Dr. Rupert Thompson of the University of Cambridge, the earliest reference to drinking games in Western literature is from Plato's Symposium The Drinking Party. The game was simple: fill a bowl with wine, drink it, slap it, and pass it on to the next person. Kottabos is one of the earliest known drinking games from ancient Greece, dated to the 5th to 4th centuries BC. Players would use dregs to hit targets across the room with their wine. Often, there were special prizes and penalties for one's performance in the game. Ancient China Drinking games were enjoyed in ancient China, usually incorporating the use of dice or verbal exchange of riddles. During the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the Chinese used a silver canister where written lots could be drawn that designated which player had to drink and specifically how much; for example, from 1, 5, 7, or 10 measures of drink that the youngest player, or the last player to join the game, or the most talkative player, or the host, or the player with the greatest alcohol tolerance, etc. had to drink There were even drinking game referee officials, including a 'registrar of the rules' who knew all the rules to the game, a 'registrar of the horn' who tossed a silver flag down on calling out second offenses, and a 'governor' who decided one's third call of offense. These referees were used mainly for maintaining order (as drinking games back then often became rowdy) and for reviewing faults that could be punished with a player drinking a penalty cup. If a guest was considered a 'coward' for dropping out of the game, he could be branded as a 'deserter' and not invited back to further drinking bouts. There was another game where little puppets and dolls dressed as western foreigners with blue eyes (Iranian peoples) were set up and when one fell over, the person it pointed to had to empty his cup of wine.

Beer Pong
Beer pong

Players Setup time Playing time Random chance Skills required

typically 2 teams of 2 2 minutes 10-20 minutes or less Easy aiming, taunting and alcohol tolerance

Beer pong (also called beirut, lob pong, etc.) is a drinking game in which players throw a table tennis ball across a table with the intent of landing the ball in one of several cups of beer on the other end. The game typically consists of two two-player teams, one on each side of a table, and a number of cups set up on each side. There are no official rules, so rules may vary widely, though usually there are six or ten plastic cups arranged in a triangle on each side. The number of players on a team can vary as well, from one to three or more. When a ball lands in a cup, the defending team must consume all of the beer inside that cup. The game is won by eliminating all the other team's cups before all of one's own cups are eliminated. The losing team must then consume all the beer remaining in the winning team's cups. The order of play varies both players on one team shoot followed by both players on the other team, or players on opposite teams can alternate back and forth. Today, beer pong is played at parties, North American colleges and universities and elsewhere, such as tailgating or other sporting events. The game is also played by high school students, despite the fact that furnishing alcohol to persons under the age of 21 is illegal in the United States.

Discussion Questions
Do you think alcohol is a drug? What is alcoholism? Do you know of any alcoholics? How do you stop being an alcoholic? Do you know how much alcohol is in beer? Do you know how much alcohol is in whiskey? What are some of the characteristics of drunk people? Is alcohol addictive? Are there any benefits to drinking? Do you think China is a drinking culture? Do you think alcohol laws are fair? What is the drinking age in Harbin? How do you know you have had too much to drink? Do you agree that alcoholism should be treated as a disease? Have you ever played a drinking game? What are some drinking games in china? Do you think that drinking games encourage binge drinking? Is it fair for Universities to ban alcohol?