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UNIT 3

3A	Exploring personal intercultural experience

Dear students,

you have already got acquainted with the University world. We are going ahead to explore other worlds you may encounter or deal with. That’s why we are going to focus on your own intercultural experience. You will have an opportunity to think about your intercultural encounters, i.e. chance meetings with representatives of other-than-your cultures, in a structured manner and reflect on your experience. So it will definitely help you understand better your and other people’s behavior, attitudes and values. That’s exactly what you need to be an effective communicant.

It is just common sense that people of one culture are similar to some extent and people of different cultures are unlike each other. So, ‘culture’ is about similarities and differences. Let’s start with exploring similarities and differences – and, indeed, cultures - in your group.

Listen, read and talk about...

· similarities and differences in your student group

· culture and cultural diversity

· intercultural encounters

· intercultural competences

· national stereotypes

Learn how to...

· start a conversation with an unknown person

· make a Mind map

· define terms

· reflect on an experience of yours so that to get a learning from it

Practice in ...

· breaking the ice while starting a conversation

· organizing ideas and explaining reasons for them

· rendering texts

· making an Autobiography of Intercultural Encounter

Revise...

· adjectives

· vocabulary to express feelings and emotions

· vocabulary for countries and nationalities

Œ Looking for similarities and differences

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You can present your list of ice-breakers as a role-play. Act out a situation of starting a talk with a stranger.

When you happen to meet new people in a non-official situation, how do you usually start a conversation?Do you immediately introduce yourself or ask about people's background? Or do you do something that attracts people's attention to you and makes them like you?

Discuss the ways to open a conversation and complete a list of TOP 3 ice-breakers.

2.†Now look through the ice-breaking tips that Bonny Albo, a member of the Canadian Association of Journalists and the author of several hundred articles about dating and mating, gives. Are they similar to the ones from your list?

Ice Breakers as Conversation Starters The purpose of breaking the ice with someone new isn’t to show off your amazing conversational skills. Instead, think of your initial contact as a way to show a person that you’d like to talk to him/her. Some conversation starter ideas to get the words flowing: · Comment on an item that you both share in your immediate surroundings, such as the long lineup you’re both waiting in or the wobbly chair next to you. · Sometimes a look is all that’s needed to break the ice. When faced with a person you find attractive, why not give them a genuine, 3 second smile? You may be surprised when the object of your happiness starts a conversation with you, instead. · If there is something the person is or has that truly intrigues you, simply use that as a conversation starter. This could be as simple as admiring a piece of clothing or asking them about the item they ordered.

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