Match the words with their definitions

5. Read the following passage describing a person's intercultural encounter. Analyse the author's actions, beliefs and conclusions.

This week I was playing a game with some of my sophomore oral students. The game had students grab pieces of colored candy from a small plastic bucket. Since many of my teammates teach this same class, we had one team member buy the buckets for the group.

One day I walked around campus carrying these little buckets full of candy. Everywhere I went people wanted to know what was in the buckets and why I was carrying the buckets around. I just assumed that I was really popular and that Mr. Wu’s candy buckets intrigued people. Since I am a person who enjoys getting attention, I planned many more days of carrying these buckets around even when I would not need them anymore. I will do whatever gets me the most attention, since I do not have a foreigner face to attract attention; these buckets were just the thing for me.

At the end of the day a student of mine asked me if I knew what these buckets were used for. Thinking I was witty, I told her that they were used for colored pieces of candy. She gave me no response (not even a courtesy smile) and then proceeded to explain that the buckets are used for kids to go pee in.

The entire day I was walking around campus with pee-pee buckets filled with candy. No wonder my students were not very excited about reaching into the bucket and grabbing random pieces of candy out. Good thing my little daughter Samantha is not being potty trained now, or else they really would not have wanted any candy!

from http://www.asia-insider-photos.com/embarrassing-story.html

Dear students,

you have reflected on the world around you and have learnt that every contact you experience is, to some extent, an intercultural encounter. You have had a chance to appreciate the learnings from your own intercultural encounters and, hopefully, realized the importance of self-reflection. You are now equipped with one of the tools for such a reflection – the Autobiography of Intercultural Encounter. You will, for sure, have plenty of possibilities and occasions to use it, because nowadays contacts across cultures are no longer a privilege for the chosen, but a mere routine for everyone. The place where every young person can taste multicultural experience is … the Internet.

The Internet has become a place for the young to live. There you can get entertainment and work, buy everything you want and sell whatever you don't need any more, make friends and look for a new date. However, the most important thing about the Internet is that you can communicate there easily. Dr. Dmitry G. Bogushevich, a prominent Belarusian linguist, states that people communicate when they clash with discontent and/or some unresolved “stuff”. So, in this Section we'll focus on the unresolved stuff that young people discuss internationally and cross-culturally today. The topic under consideration here is the challenges that the young people face.

While communicating on the Net you can try different identities, which is, of course, a great fun. However, others can change their identities too and it may cause misunderstanding, disappointments and even troubles. That is why it is of importance to know how to 'read' other people's identities. One more thing very peculiar about the Internet is that it has its own jargon and etiquette, that are also worth studying.

Section B is giving you a possibility to learn and to speak about the youth concerns by tracing Internet discussions and by participating in a class discussion organized as a Focus-group. This format is widely used by specialists in Humanitarian disciplines, and we hope it will be also of use for you.

So, here we go …

· youth concerns

· people's characteristics

· Internet etiquette

· Internet jargon

· brainstorm in a group

· identify communicators

· socialize on the Internet

· lead and participate in a Focus-group discussion

· write an opinion essay

· brainstorming

· mind-, cognitive- and vocabulary-mapping

· ‘reading’ communicator's speech portrait

· putting-on different personalities while communicating

· writing opinion essays

· vocabulary and speech patterns

· modals

ΠSearching for ideas: Brainstorming

1.

What are the challenges^­ that the youth face in today’s multicultural society?

To get acquainted with the format of brainstorming see Appendix 3, p. ….

When speaking you may use the following synonyms of the words 'youth' and 'challenge':

2.† Use the results of the brainstorming to make a mind map depicting your personal view of the issue. The Mind map below serves as an example.

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