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Debate the question “Cultural shock is always negative!!!” Arrange in two teams.

First team: you think that cultural shock is always negative and frustrated.

Second team: You think that cultural shock may have positive effect.

Homework

10. Fill in the chart.

Topic__________________________________________________________
What I Know	What I want to know	What I learned

Lesson 2

Cultural misunderstanding

1. 
   Look at the photo.
   

Do you know…? Cultural misunderstandings occur when something – a word, gesture, object, social context, almost anything you can think of has different meanings in two cultures.

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  What do you know about cultural misunderstanding?
  
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  Can you think about any situation that you come across in another culture? Share your story with your group mates.
  
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  What are the main reasons of cultural misunderstandings?
  

2. 
   Read the statement below. Is there any situation that related to your countries culture?
   

1. 
   Americans often end invitations with the phrase like “Come if you want to”.
   
2. 
   Arabs offer a meal or drink for more than 3 times if you refuse it.
   
3. 
   In Ukraine income, politics, religion, marital status are acceptable topics in talking with a stranger.
   
4. 
   Germans are more direct in their relationship than others.
   
5. 
   When a Chinese receive compliment they always answer- ‘It was really nothing’, ‘I must continue to improve’, ‘I did not merit it’.
   

3. 
   Work in pairs. Think about things that describe your culture. You can use words from the box. What do you think how your culture may be misunderstood by others? Make a presentation. Share it with the class.
   

Religious, hospitable, poor, old-fashioned, interesting, political, modern, family-oriented, uninteresting, educated, materialistic, liberated, serious, rich, fun-love, uneducated, tolerant, ashamed, stifling, open-minded, selfish

4. 
   In future, you are planning to go abroad to European countries. Nevertheless, you do not know how to behave in different lifestyle practices. Imagine that you going to have a meeting with an exchange student in your country. He/she is from Europe. Think about five questions that you would like to ask him/her about Western culture.
   

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