Iws №5 (6 hours)
Theme: Understanding, values, and attitudes
Subtheme # 1: Verbal and non-verbal communication
Task 1: Make a spider map on the main types of verbal communication. Explain each part of your map.
Task 2: Prepare a brochure on the given theme. It should be useful to understand the meaning of verbal communication.
Task 3: Write a short report (about 250-300words) on the theme:
“Verbal communication and understanding other participants of communication”
Task 4: You are a student from Romano-Germanic Faculty. You are having academic writing class next week. Your teacher has asked you to write an article about the verbal communication. Write your article. (about 250-300 words).
Form of control: Making an outline of a lecture or seminar
Time to pass: April, 2013
Subtheme #2: Body Language
People communicate at all times by sending and receiving messages without speaking a single word. We communicate through “body language,” with facial expressions, posture, gestures, and eye contact. We communicate by our tone of voice, rhythm of speech, linguistic stress over a certain syllable, and even silences.
Task 1: Write an essay on the theme “The best ways to develop nonverbal communication”. (250-300 words)
Task 2: Prepare Power Point Presentation on one of the categories of non-verbal communication. Compare different cultures and their non-verbal behavior.
Task 3: You are going to prepare a short radio news bulletin on the topic: “Non-verbal communication.” Give a brief summary of your text and decide on the order in which they would appear in a radio news report.
Guidelines for writing radio news reports:
Use simple language and keep your sentences short;
Give your report a dynamic introduction to attract your audience and make them want to hear the rest of the story;
Specify what your report is about;
Give examples, compare cultures.
Form of control: Making an outline of a lecture or seminar
Time to pass: May, 2013
Siw №6 (4 hours)
Theme: The danger of stereotypical descriptions
Subtheme #1: Problems of culture shock.
Task 1: Make a Power Point Presentation on the given theme. Compare cultures and explain the main differences.
Task 2: Write an informal letter to your pen friend about culture shock you have experienced.
Before writing your letter, follow this instruction:
Write a plan for the letter;
Think of ways to express the main points and linking words to join the points together;
Use the informal expressions;
Check grammar and spelling and write your letter.
Task 3: Give your own suggestions that you think are the most important for avoiding culture shock.
Task 4. Find out information on the researches in the field of ICC. Make a table that shows the names of Western, Kazakh and Russian linguists or scholars who really concerned with the problems of ICC. In your table include the following criteria:
- the names of linguists who concerned the given theme
- the problem they dealt with
- their suggestions or contributions to the field of ICC
Form of control: Making a table with analysis
Time to pass: May, 2013