- •Intercultural communication contents
- •2.1 Reading:
- •3.1 Reading:
- •Embarrassing Situations
- •Ecotourism
- •Agree or disagree with the following statements, explain your viewpoint.
- •In the box there are 14 words from the recording. Below are the definitions of these words. Put the words into the gaps in the sentences.
- •Ecotourism
- •Consider the following open statements and enlarge on them expressing your point of view on different aspects of holiday travel. You are free to discuss other issues referring to (eco)tourism.
- •1. Before reading the text look at the title and sub-heading of the article and try to answer the following questions:
- •Body language
- •2. Read the text and find out what body language people use to say:
- •3. Read the text again and decide if the following statements are true or false according to the text.
- •Vocabulary. Match the following words to their Russian equivalents.
- •5. Match phrasal verbs to the correct meaning.
- •6. Fill in the gaps with the correct particle out or up:
- •7. Underline the correct word in each pair.
- •Match the words from the text “Cross-Cultural Communication: Translating Non-Verbal Cues” with their definitions
- •6. Now come up with your own suggestions, ideas, and considerations that may help deal with the following situations:
- •Below are the definitions of the words in the box. Match the words and the definitions.
- •A management consultant talks about intercultural competence as a vital business skill for today’s global workers. Listen to the interview, then for each question, select the best answer.
- •III. Answer and discuss the following questions with your partner:
- •Universities
- •10.Text 6. The Pros and Cons of Studying in a Foreign Country
- •11.The Pros and Cons of Studying in a Foreign Country
- •1.Experience Abroad and Employers
- •2.Financial Issues of Living Abroad
- •3.Dealing With Foreign Culture
- •4.Academic Issues of Spending Time Abroad
- •5.Full Time or Part Time Study?
- •3.3 Speaking: learning styles
- •Reading
- •Vocabulary
- •Speaking
- •Have you changed your attitude to British people after reading the text?
- •Is there any surprising or shocking information in the text?
- •4.2 Text 8. Doing business in Russia
- •1. Find the right meaning for the words from the text:
- •2. Match the words with their definitions:
- •3. Complete the sentences using these words from the text:
- •4. Decide if the statements are true or false.
- •5. Read the text again and summarize each paragraph in two or three sentences.
- •6. Discuss in pairs or small groups:
- •4.3 Text 9. Doing Business in the usa
- •3) Decide if the following statements are true or false.
- •4) Match the words with their definitions
- •2. Complete the sentences with a word or phrase from the box
- •5) Discuss the following questions
- •6) Fill in the table using the chart and information from the text Differences between the business cultures
- •Vocabulary
- •5.1 Read the text Major Religions and do the tasks after it.
- •2. Match the names of the religions with the facts about them.
- •3. Answer the questions about the four major religions.
- •4. Answer these questions.
- •5. Match the places of pilgrimages with their descriptions. Find more information about the places and share it in class.
- •6. Complete the text with the derivatives from the words in the right-hand column
- •7. Have you ever heard the name of Confucius ? Say where he lived and when and what made him famous. Then read the text to see if you were right. Do the task after the text.
- •5.2 Read the text and do the tasks (1—5) after it circling one of the letters (a—d).
- •9.Find in the text Religious Education (Ex. 8) the words and word combinations which mean the same as the words and phrases below. Make up your own sentences with them.
- •10.Choose the best item to complete the sentences.
- •11. Express the same in English.
- •117997, Москва, Стремянный пер., 36.
Embarrassing Situations
After a ten-hour journey from London I was really happy to have arrived at my host family’s house in Colombia. They were extremely friendly even though I spoke only a little Spanish, and they plied me with lemonade and made me feel comfortable. After a while, the mother asked me: ‘Estas casado?’ I thought she was asking me if I was tired, so I said: ‘Si, un poco’, which means ‘yes, a little’. Suddenly everyone laughed. Later I found out that ’casado’ means married, and ‘cansado’ means tired. So she‘d asked me if I was married and I said: ‘Oh, a little’! That was just the first of many linguistic blunders I made! Actually, looking back, I wish I’d learned more of the language before moving there, but at the time I thought I’d just muddle through. Bad idea.
I’m from Colombia but I’ve lived in the US for ten years. When I first got a car, I needed to buy gas so I drove to a gas station and sat there waiting to be served. And I sat there, and I sat there, and no one came. Eventually, a bit perplexed, I went into the store and asked for a full tank of gas. The girl took my money, and I went back to the car and waited again. Still no one came. So I thought maybe someone had done it for me while I was in the store. So I drove off. But then I looked at the gasometer and the tank was completely empty. I drove back to the gas station and suddenly I realized I had to fill the car myself. I’ve never done this before because in Colombia the people who work at the gas station do it for you. Well, I felt a bit stupid, as you can imagine.
This was before I could speak English properly. I was flying back to Italy and I was at Heathrow. Now, for some reason or other, I didn’t have my glasses and I’m very short sighted so I couldn’t see the information on the screen. So I asked someone official-looking: ‘Which gate for Milan?’ and he said: ‘It’s too early. There’s no gate’. Now I got a bit confused because I thought that ‘early’ meant ‘late’, so I began to panic, thinking I’d missed my flight. So I asked someone else, and again: ‘You’re too early. No gate assigned. You’ll have to wait’. And I was tearing my hair out and wondering why these English people were so calm when I’d just missed my flight. Eventually, a nice Englishman explained, very pleasantly, that the gate number would appear very soon and that I hadn’t missed my flight. He was probably thinking: ‘Dumb tourist’. So the moral of the story is: learn the basics. And don’t lose your glasses!
Look through the text again and find the words that mean:
to perform duties for a person or organization _________________
to keep giving someone a lot of something ______________
to form a picture of something or someone in your mind ________________
to feel pleasant and relaxed________________
to discover a fact or piece of information ________________
going crazy / getting angry___________
not able to see things clearly if they are far away from you _______________
containing nothing ____________
embarrassed because you cannot understand something_______________
a formal word for given, e.g. a task or a seat ____________________.
Match the words with their synonyms:
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Discuss the questions with your partner:
What triggers embarrassing situations?
What can we do to avoid them?
1.2 Listening: