6. Ответьте на вопросы.

1. Can we live without communication?

2. How can we communicate with each other?

3. In what cases do you feel the need in contacts?

4. What means of communication do you prefer to use? Why?

5. Do you like to communicate with strangers? Why?

6. Have you ever had contacts with foreigners?

7. What language do you usually speak to foreigners?

8. What rules of communication do you know?

9. What rules of communication do you follow?

10. Are rules of communication different in different countries? (Give your examples).

UNIT 2. WHAT IS INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION?

1. Прочитайте и переведите текст.

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INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION

Interpersonal communication is usually defined by communication scholars in numerous ways, usually describing participants who are dependent upon one another. It can involve one on one conversations or individuals interacting with many people within a society. It helps us understand how and why people behave and communicate in different ways to construct and negotiate a social reality. While interpersonal communication can be defined as its own area of study, it also occurs within other contexts like groups and organizations. Interpersonal communication is the process that we use to communicate our ideas, thoughts, and feelings to another person. Our interpersonal communication skills are learned behaviours that can be improved through knowledge, practice, feedback, and reflection.

Interpersonal communication includes message sending and message reception between two or more individuals. This can include all aspects of communication such as listening, persuading, asserting, non-verbal communication, and more. A primary concept of interpersonal communication looks at communicative acts when there are few individuals involved unlike areas of communication such as group interaction, where there may be a large number of individuals involved in a communicative act.

Individuals also communicate on different interpersonal levels depending on who they are engaging in communication with. For example, if an individual is communicating with a family member, that communication will more than likely differ from the type of communication used when engaged in a communicative act with a friend or a significant person.

Overall, interpersonal communication can be conducted using both direct and indirect mediums of communication such as face-to-face interaction, as well as computer-mediated-communication. Successful interpersonal communication assumes that both the message senders and the message receivers will interpret and understand the messages being sent on a level of understood meanings and implications.

2. Подберите русские эквиваленты к английским словосочетаниям из текста.

1. interpersonal communication	a. невербальное общение
2. to interact with people	b. ответная реакция и размышление
3. to communicate in different ways	c. понять значение и скрытый смысл
4. to occur within other contexts	d. межличностное общение
5. non-verbal communication	e. прямые и опосредованные средства общения
6. feedback and reflection	f. взаимодействовать с людьми
7. to be engaged in a communicative act	g. передача и прием сообщения
8. direct and indirect mediums of communication	h. общаться разными способами
9. to understand meanings and implications	i. участвовать в акте коммуникации
10. message sending and message receiving	j. возникать при других условиях