Course Content
WARM-UP AND ‘THE CULTURE MAP’
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VIDEO AND DISCUSSION
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HOMEWORK/REVISION
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Avoiding culture clashes

Students continue talking about cross-cultural communication in business by looking at some statements. The statements are related to different cultures and where they are placed on ‘The Culture Map’. They must decide if the statements are true or false. hen they watch a video and check if they were right. After that, students discuss aspects of the video. Next, students analyse some situations of cross-cultural misunderstandings using the framework. They must rewrite the situations using some collocations in brackets (e.g. open confrontationblunt criticism). Finally, students read the situations again and discuss some further points