- •Different kinds of greeting Recording 1
- •Go over the list of words and word combinations and clear up any difficulties.
- • Listening Tasks
- • Language Focus
- •Recording 2
- •2. Listen to each dialogue again and try to guess where the action takes place. Fill in the table below.
- •Inviting people to a party Recording 3
- •Recording 4
- •2. Listen to the same interview for the second time and complete the statements given below.
- • Language Focus
- •Habits and customs. Recording 5
- •When in rome… Recording 6
- •Listening Tasks
- •1. You will hear five people describing their first visits to another country. Define the countries the speakers visited and the popular habits associated with them.
- •2. Listen to the recording again and choose from the list a – k what each person says about the country. Use the letters only once. There’s one extra letter you don’t need to use.
- •F The soil is incredibly rich there.
- • Follow-up Activity
- •Living in a foreign country Recording 7
- •1. Consult a dictionary if you have any difficulties in translating the following words and expressions.
- •2. Before listening think of three things that make life easy and three things that make life difficult for a person living in a foreign country.
- •2.2 Skin deep. People’s appearances
- •Describing people Recording 1
- •Language Focus
- •Recording 2
- •Recording 3
- • Listening Tasks
- • Follow-up Activity
- •Recording 4
- •1. Go over the list of words and clear up any difficulties.
- • Listening Task
- • Follow-up Activity
- •2.3 Interpersonal relations Topic Preview
- •Recording 1
- •1. Listen to the recording. Which of these sentences are true?
- •Recording 2
- • Listening Task
- •How to deal with difficult children Recording 3
- •Marriage guidance council Recording 4
- •1. Go over the list of words. Make sure there are no difficulties in understanding their meaning.
- •2. Practice these proper names and words.
- • Listening Task
- • Language Focus
- •Recording 5
- •1. Listen to Sam and Charlie talking about being married and being single and answer these questions:
- •2. Listen to their talk and take notes of Sam’s and Charlie’s arguments for and against marriage.
- •Recording 6
- • Language Focus
- •1. Complete the following sentences according to the dialogue.
- •2. Translate into English.
- •Recording 7
- • Listening Task
- •1. Listen to the conversation between Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Smith and choose the things they have mentioned in their talk.
- •2. Listen to the recording. Think over the right alternative to make up a true statement.
- • Language focus
- •1. Complete the following sentences in accordance with the dialogue.
- •2. Translate into English.
- •What sort of people may enjoy spreading gossip?
- •2. 4 Developing the mind
- •Recording 1
- •You are just making excuses!
- •2. Consult a dictionary paying attention to the different pronunciation of the word “either”. Listening Tasks
- •Iq tests Recording 2
- •What do you think these tests measure?
- •2. Listen to the final radio program extract and note down three pieces of advice for people doing iq tests mentioned in the recording.
- •A quiz Recording 3
- • Listening Task
- • Follow-up Activity
- •Recording 4
- •2. Listen to the recording again and answer the following questions.
- • Language Focus
- •2.5 Job options
- •Recording 1
- • Listening Tasks
- •2. Listen to the conversation again and complete the phrases.
- • Grammar Focus
- •2. Listen to the stress in these sentences from the grammar box in task 1.
- •3. Listen to the rest of the sentences. Mark the stressed words and then practice the sentences. Follow-up Activity
- •Recording 2
- • Listening Tasks
- • Follow-up Activity
- •Recording 3
- • Listening Tasks
- •2. Listen again and answer the questions.
- • Language Focus
- •Recording 4
- • Listening Tasks
- • Grammar Focus
- •Follow-up Activity
- •Recording 5
- • Listening Tasks
- • Language Focus
- • Follow-up Activity
- •Recording 6
- •2. Study the acis advertisement.
- • Listening Tasks
- •3. Listen to the last extract and answer the questions.
- • Language Focus
- • Follow-up Activity
- •Recording 7
- • Listening Tasks
- • Follow-up Activity
- •2.6 Views and news
- •Recording 1
- • Listening Tasks
- •2. Listen again and answer the questions.
- • Language Focus
- •Recording 2
- • Listening Tasks
- •2. Listen to the recording again and answer these questions.
- • Follow-up Activity
- •Recording 3
- • Listening Tasks
- • Follow-up Activity
- •What habits of the people you’ve just been listening to are very like the same as yours? tapescripts
- •2.1 Cross-cultural behaviour
- •Recording 1
- •Recording 2
- •Inviting people to a party Recording 3 Dialogue 1
- •Dialogue 2 Mary Hello, Mary Latimer here.
- •Dialogue 4
- •Have you ever considered living abroad? Recording 4
- •Habits and customs Recording 5
- •When in rome… Recording 6
- •Recording 7
- •2.2 Skin deep. People appearances describing people Recording 1
- •Describing people Recording 2
- •Recording 3
- •Recording 4
- •2.3 Interpersonal relations
- •Recording 1
- •Recording 2
- •How to deal with difficult children Recording 3
- •Marriage guidance council Recording 4
- •Talking about being married and being single Recording 5
- •Recording 6 Mrs. Jones Good morning, Mrs. Smith. What beautiful weather again!
- •Mrs. Jones Yes, but some people are complaining about the heat and grumbling because we haven’t had much rain for the gardens.
- •Recording 6
- •2.4 Developing the mind
- •Recording 1
- •Joan I don’t like them either, but on the other hand, if we didn’t have them, I don’t suppose I’d study at all.
- •Joan I suppose they do, but I don’t think that’s the point, either. Surely you have to do exams for people to find out if you know anything…
- •Iq tests Recording 2
- •A quiz Recording 3 Question 1
- •Question 2
- •Question 3
- •Question 4
- •Question 5
- •Recording 4
- •2.5 Job options
- •Recording 1
- •Recording 2
- •Julia: Bye-bye!
- •Recording 3
- •Recording 4
- •Man: Mmm ... And do you speak any foreign languages
- •Woman: Do you have any experience with this kind of work?
- •Recording 5
- •Recording 6
- •Recording 7
- •2.6 Views and news
- •Recording 1
- •Recording 2
- •Recording 3
Recording 2
One
I don’t read newspapers at all. They ’re all biased. They’ve been taken over by companies who have political interests. And in Britain most of papers are right wing. There are one or two that I think are a bit more objective, but I’d rather listen to the radio.
Two
Actually, I don’t want to know about the details of all the troubles in the world – it’s all so depressing. I like human-interest stories – stories about people, not wars and disasters. So my daily newspaper is a tabloid. The other good thing about a tabloid is that you can read it ten minutes on the way to work. That’s all I want.
Three
I get a so-called quality newspaper on Sundays because it gives me a good summery of world events, but I also buy tabloids two or three times a week. People are critical of the pictures and stories of the royals and the problems that have been published in the tabloids, but I don’t agree. Why shouldn’t we know how they’re spending our money? They’re public figures, and only the tabloids give you the details – the other papers are too respectful.
LISTENING AND READING HABITS
Recording 3
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Well the things I don’t really look at usually are the financial pages, sports pages, things like editorials, because they tend to be very long and boring, unless it’s a topic that I’m really, really interested in. The things that I do actually read a lot of are things like the arts pages, and reviews of new films, new books, and that’s why I like reading on a Sunday, because the papers that you get on a Sunday are usually full of the reviews of the week, and I find that quite interesting, but things like the financial pages just bore me, I just don’t understand them and I’m not interested, and sport, I’m just not interested, so I just don’t bother.
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We turn it on at 5.45 in the morning, and stay in bed and drink our tea and listen to the news then more news and more news, and, basically, we listen to it until we leave the house and that’s a good hour and forty-five minutes later. When I come home at night, I turn on the radio, I sort of one of the first things I do is turn on the radio, I find it so relaxing to have that noise in the background, and then I hear the news at the end of the day, so I don’t miss out on what’s happened all day long. I turn it off by about ten past seven, because I’m not interested in the programs after that, but I love having it on when I’m working, doing either schoolwork or homework in the house, I like listening to music, just to have it on.
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Yeah the best stuff is on the cable and satellite, which I don’t have, so I’ve got to go to the pub to watch it, which is all right, I don’t mind, that’s a good excuse. But on what I’ve got at home it’s just division two, division three, stuff like that, games which aren’t very interesting, and then sports which only people who are not really interested in sport like watching – like cricket and darts and bowls and things like that. So I just go out on Wednesdays and Saturdays and Sundays, and watch it down the pub.
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Sometimes I think it’s almost impossible to turn on the television without seeing violence, and I never thought I’d feel like that, but maybe it’s just because now I’ve got a little child I feel like that, but I turn it on and adverts seem to be quite violent, and there is cartoons, and it seems to be from seven o’clock in the morning until you turn the TV off at night on one of the five channels, you’re bound to find something which shows people being aggressive towards each other. I think, it’s something I’ve become more aware of since I’ve had a child of my own, but it’s not the kind of thing I’d write to the paper about, but it bothers me quietly, I suppose.
5. Well the ones I really, really hate are for perfume, above all others I absolutely detest them, usually around Christmas time, you’re completely bombarded by these things for perfume, and they usually have women in the most ludicrous clothes, doing something really stupid – like, I don’t know, wearing an evening dress and stepping out of a shell. They’re just absolutely dreadful, they’re absolutely dreadful - they’re supposed to be really, really sophisticated, and I don’t know, the women who are on them are supposed to be really beautiful, but they just look absolutely ridiculous and I loathe them!
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PART ONE. RECOGNIZING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES: READING, SPEAKING, WRITING………………………………. |
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1.2 Communicating Interculturally……………………………………... |
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Text 3: Understanding Culture………………………………………. |
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