Is it true or not?

Improve mistakes if there are any in these sentences.

Write your answers in your workbook.

1. In Samoa it's not good to negotiate the fare with taxis right up front or risk an occasional unreasonable fare.

2. Frustration, anxiety and stress also occur whenever people can’t do all the things they are accustomed to doing in their everyday lives.

3. A person can’t experience considerable stress and anxiety when they are living in a different culture with different values from their own.

4. Gossip doesn’t transmit important information about people’s behavior and moral character and hence their prominent social controls function.

5. Gossip binds people together socially because you must normally be at least partly accepted into a person’s in-group before they will share valuable tidbits of gossip with you.

Additional task: Choose 2 countries and compare them. Show what is different and common between them and what can cause cultural shock.

E xercise 17

Complete the following test to confirm your knowledge about cultural shock.

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1. Culture shock occurs when someone lives in a foreign country for an ......... period of time.

	(a)  estranged
	(b)  entranced
	(c)  envied
	(d)  extended

2. Living ......... can be a wonderful experience, but it can be difficult because you may have to adapt to a culture that is very different from your own.

   	(a)  kitty-cornered
   	(b)  crosswise
   	(c)  abroad
   	(d)  overboard

3. ......... are people who have left their home countries to live as permanent residents in foreign countries.

	(a)  Expatriates
	(b)  Ex-cons
	(c)  Extremities
	(d)  Examiners

4. Many people ......... from culture shock when they move to an exotic, foreign country.

	(a)  infect
	(b)  fall
	(c)  suffer
	(d)  come

5. At first, people who move to another country are usually ......... by their new surroundings and the different culture.

	(a)  tracked
	(b)  communicated
	(c)  ransomed
	(d)  fascinated

6. However, after the initial stages, a person may begin to feel ......... and frustrated about his/her surroundings.

	(a)  delegated
	(b)  dignified
	(c)  denominated
	(d)  disoriented

7. In order to overcome culture shock, a person usually begins to ......... himself/herself in the local culture.

	(a)  invade
	(b)  integrate
	(c)  incase
	(d)  imitate

8. People often travel and live in foreign countries in order to ......... a new culture.

	(a)  scan
	(b)  translate
	(c)  experience
	(d)  embed

9. When people move ........., he/she would be wise to familiarize himself/herself with the country and the local language beforehand.

	(a)  countries
	(b)  foreign
	(c)  overseas
	(d)  distant

10. People often get frustrated when they reside in a foreign country because of the language ......... that exist.

	(a)  bridges
	(b)  barriers
	(c)  bans
	(d)  bombs

E xercise 18

Translate from Russian into English.

Write your translation in your workbook.