II. Point out true statements.

1. Rebecca Fong teaches a course in intercultural communication at the College of the West of England.

2. When Rebecca was quite young she went to live in England

3. Rebecca really went to many flower arranging exhibitions

4. Rebecca said “Oh well that arrangement was obviously done by an expert “

5. Japanese people can appreciate the flower arrangement for its beauty in a way that Rebecca was completely unable to see when she first went to the country.

6. Rebecca and Japanese were both looking at the same object at the same time but the Japanese were seeing something completely different.

III (Complex Subject) Choose the appropriate form of the verb:

1 Many books … to be published in our country every year.

1. known

2. know

3. knew

4. are known

2. This work … to take much time tomorrow.

1. is seemed

2. seems

3. will seem

4. seemed

3. The new methods of work … to be very effective.

1. appear

2. will be appeared

3. are appeared

4. appears

4. His invention … to be of great importance.

a) consider

b) considered

3. is considered

4. considers

5. The conference … to take place last May.

1. is expected

2. was expected

3. expected

4. expect

IV Choose the correct form of the Gerund.

1. Excuse me for … your beautiful vase.

1. breaking

2. being broken

3. having been broken

4. having broken

2. You never mentioned of … to Greece.

1. having been

2. being

3. having been being

4. being been

3. She was proud of … the Cup of a champion at the last Championship..

1. awarding

2. being awarded

c) having awarded

d) having been awarded

Test 2

Rebecca Fong

You don't actually notice culture very much until you meet someone from another culture. And in the first week or two or maybe even the first month or two, you might not notice any differences; you might get on quite well with that person. But then a misunderstanding might suddenly occur. The reason that something has gone wrong is that your culture and the other person's culture have collided.

Kjung-Ja Yoo

One of my husband's colleagues came to the house and he kissed me, kissed me, hugged me you know as a friendly terms. But in Tokyo I'm someone's wife and then someone – westerner - kissing my cheek is an embarrassing thing. I didn't want to embarrass him, so I just accepted and then when I looked at my husband he just pretended - not seeing anything, typical!

Rebecca Fong

We all grow up inside our own cultures and what this means is that we assume without thinking a number of different values, attitudes, beliefs, ways of doing things, ways of saying things which come to us naturally - but the way we do things isn't necessarily the same as the way people in other cultures do them and it's not until something goes wrong that you're going to realise that the way someone else does something is different from the way that you do it.

Rajni Baldani

When I first went to England I was absolutely, absolutely shocked. There were three of us, two of us Indians and there was one English person, who whilst he was talking, right in the middle of the conversation he takes out a banana, peels it and starts eating it. And he's peeling this banana and eating it without even saying excuse me or whatever. We expect to be offered. That is something that is culturally very different.

Rebecca Fong

When there's a cultural misunderstanding like this, the temptation can be to think 'Well they've got a stupid way of doing it - why don't they do it like we do it ' and you find that your standards become the standards by which you judge everyone else. And lead to a lot of conflict.