1 Patterns of Culture

INTRODUCTION

PATTERNS IN THIS CHAPTER

YOUR SUCCESS PATTERNS IN THIS CHAPTER

Task 1.1 Evaluating:Thinking About Yourself

CULTURAL PATTERN 1:ASPECTS OF CULTURE

Task 1.2 Prereading:Brainstorming Culture

Task 1.3 Reading:Guessing as You Read

Task 1.4 Postreading:Checking Your Comprehension

Task 1.5 Expanding Your Knowledge:Considering Your Favorite Cultural Themes or Topics

Task 1.6 Expanding Your Knowledge:Creating a Concept Map of Culture

Task 1.7 Expanding Your Knowledge:Introducing Yourself to Another Culture

CULTURAL PATTERN 2:THE ICEBERG OF CULTURE

Task 1.8 Prelistening:Considering the Iceberg

Task 1.9 Listening:Completing the Iceberg Drawing

Task 1.10 Postlistening:Checking Your Labels

Task 1.11 Expanding Your Knowledge:Placing the Aspects of Culture Where They Belong

Task 1.12 Expanding Your Knowledge:Finding Cultural Objects

CULTURAL PATTERN 3:ADJUSTING TO AMERICAN CULTURE

Task 1.13 Prelistening:Analyzing Names

Task 1.14 Listening:Using the T-Line

Task 1.15 Postlistening:Understanding Feelings and Needs

Task 1.16 Prereading:Considering the Impact of Exchange Students

Task 1.17 Reading:Looking for the EffeCts

Task 1.18 Postreading:Two-Way Learning

Task 1.19 Prelistening:Expanding Your Background Knowledge

Task 1.20 Listening:Seeking Family Details

Task 1.21 Postlistening:Counting the Blessings

Task 1.22 Prereading:Feeling Feat and Hesitation

Task 1.23 Reading:Confronting the Fear and Hesitation

Task 1.24 Postreading:Separating the Plussesand the Minuses

CULTURAL PATTERN 4:UNDERSTANDING CULTURES MORE CLEARLY STEP BY STEP

Task 1.25 Prereading:Scanning

Task 1.26 Reading:Guessing as Needed

Task 1.27 Postreading:Checking Your Understanding

Task 1.28 Expanding Your Knowledge:Practicing the Numbers

Task 1.29 Expanding Your Knowledge:Assessing Your Cultural Understanding

CULTURAL PATTERN 5:EXAMPLES OF STEREOTYPES AND ASSUMPTIONS

Task 1.30 Prereading:Understanding Human Nature

Task 1.31 Reading:Thinking About Reasons

Task 1.32 Postreading:Looking at the Reasons

Task 1.33 Prelistening:Predicting What People Might Think

Task 1.34 Listening:Empathizing with the Person

Task 1.35 Postlistening:Decoding the Message

CULTURAL PATTERN 6:WHEN THE VIEW IS SHOCKING

Task 1.36 Prereading:Brainstorming and Voting

Task 1.37 Reading:Identifying the Features

Task 1.38 Postreading:Relating Culture Shock to Your Own Experience

Task 1.39 Prelistening:Doing Your Geography

Task 1.40 Listening:Finding Feelings and Facts

Task 1.41 Postlistening:Examining the Situation

WORD PATTERNS

Task 1.42 Wordbuilding:Breaking Down Words and Starring Familiar Words

Task 1.43 Wordbuilding:Putting Words in the Bank

CHECKING YOUR SUCCESS

Task 1.44 Evaluating:Reviewing the Objectivesand Rating Yourself

Task 1.45 Evaluating:Checking Attitudes

WHERE TO GO FOR MORE INFORMATION

2 Time and Space

INTRODUCTION

PATTERNS IN THIS CHAPTER

YOUR SUCCESS PATTERNS IN THIS CHAPTER

Task 2.1 Evaluating:Thinking About Yourself

Task 2.2 Expanding Your Knowledge:Taking Your Time

CULTURAL PATTERN 1:TWO CONCEPTS OF TIME

Task 2.3 Prereading:Breaking Down a Word

Task 2.4 Reading:Looking for New Information

Task 2.5 Postreading:Working with Words

Task 2.6 Expanding Your Knowledge:Considering the Meaning of Proverbs

Task 2.7 Prelistening:Using Visual Symbols

Task 2.8 Listening:Looking at Your Drawings

Task 2.9 Postlistening:Making a"Time Continuum"

Task 2.10 Expanding Your Knowledge:Synthesizing What You Know in a Concept Map of Monochronic Culture

Task 2.11 Expanding Your Knowledge:Synthesizing What You Know in a Concept Map of Polychronic Cultures

CULTURAL PATTERN 2:BEHAVIOR IN TWO"TIME ZONES"

Task 2.12 Prereading:Thinking About Working Mothers

Task 2.13 Reading:Looking for Details

Task 2.14 Postreading:Getting to Know Betty

Task 2.15 Expanding Your Knowledge:Considering People You Know from M-Cultures

Task 2.16 Prelistening:Considering a Key Word

Task 2.17 Listening:Prioritizing

Task 2.18 Postlistening:Understanding Jorge

Task 2.19 Expanding Your Knowledge:Considering People You Know from P-Cultures

Task 2.20 Expanding Your Knowledge:Thinking About Time in Other Cultures

Task 2.21 Expanding Your Knowledge:Doing a"Time"Role-Play

CULTURAL PATTERN 3:THE CONNECTION OF TIME AND SPACE:TWO PERSPECTIVES

Task 2.22 Prereading:Predicting the Kind of Writing

Task 2.23 Reading:Looking for Differences in Content and Style

Task 2.24 Postreading:Comparing Two Perspectives After the Reading

CULTURAL PATTERN 4:YOUR OWN TERRITORY AND SPACE

Task 2.25 Prelistening:Thinking About the Bubble

Task 2.26 Listening:Listen for the Images

Task 2.27 Postlistening:Analyzing What You Heard

Task 2.28 Prereading:Standing Near and Far

Task 2.29 Reading:Drawing a Diagram

Task 2.30 Postreading:Comparing Across Cultures

Task 2.31 Prelistening:Considering the Clichés

Task 2.32 Listening:Separating the Serious from the Funny

Task 2.33 Postlistening:Understanding Space

CULTURAL PATTERN 5:SPACE IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD

Task 2.34 Prereading:Asking Questions

Task 2.35 Reading:Locating Evidence

Task 2.36 Postreading:Exploring the Reading and Going Further

Task 2.37 Prelistening:Predicting What's Coming

Task 2.38 Listening:Checking Yourself

Task 2.39 Postlistening:Explaining About Personal Space

Task 2.40 Prereading:Skimming with First Sentences

Task 2.41 Reading:Paying Careful Attention

Task 2.42 Postreading:Giving Your Views and Feelings

Task 2.43 Prelistening:Considering What You Already Know

Task 2.44 Listening:Looking for New Information

Task 2.45 Postlistening:Considering the Contrasts

Task 2.46 Expanding Your Knowledge:Judging Your Preferred Personal Space

Task 2.47 Expanding Your Knowledge:Understanding the Backing-Off Syndrome

Task 2.48 Expanding Your Knowledge:Playing Roles About Personal Space

Task 2.49 Expanding Your Knowledge:Interviewing Someone About Personal Space

Task 2.50 Expanding Your Knowledge:Taking a Field Trip to Another Part of Town

WORD PATTERNS

Task 2.51 Wordbuilding:Organizing the New Vocabulary

CHECKING YOUR SUCCESS

Task 2.52 Evaluating:Reviewing the Objectives and Rating Yourself

WHERE TO GO FOR MORE INFORMATION

3 Let's Get Physical

INTRODUCTION

PATTERNS IN THIS CHAPTER

YOUR SUCCESS PATTERNS IN THIS CHAPTER

Task 3.1 Evaluating:Thinking About Yourself

CULTURAL PATTERN 1:TOUCH

Task 3.2 Prelistening:Talking About Touch

Task 3.3 Listening:Making a Chart

Task 3.4 Postlistening:Checking with Others

Task 3.5 Prereading:Greeting Others

Task 3.6 Reading:Highlighting with an Underline

Task 3.7 Postreading:Monitoring Your Understanding and Attention

Task 3.8 Expanding Your Knowledge:Completing the Handshake Chart

Task 3.9 Expanding Your Knowledge:Taking the Pulse

Task 3.10 Expanding Your Knowledge:Separating Fact from Opinion

Task 3.11 Expanding Your Knowledge:Experimenting with Gestures and Observing Responses

Task3.12 Expanding Your Knowledge:Doing a"Trust Fall"

Task 3.13 Expanding Your Knowledge:Creating a Cultural Guidebook on Touch

CULTURAL PATTERN 2:GESTURES

Task 3.14 Prelistening:Thinking About Your Own Mistakes

Task 3.15 Listening:Finding the Mistakes

Task 3.16 Postlistening:Reviewing the Meaning of Certain Gestures

Task 3.17 Frereading:Predicting

Task 3.18 Reading:Contrasting the Universal and the Specific

Task 3.19 Postreading:Considering the Motivation for Using Gestures

Task 3.20 Prelistening:Comparing Gestures

Task 3.21 Listening:Acting It Out

Task 3.22 Postlistening:Outlining

Task 3.23 Prereading:Looking at the Map

Task 3.24 Reading:Personalizing

Task 3.25 Postreading:Making a Personalized Chart

Task 3.26 Prelistening:Asking About Impressions

Task 3.27 Listening:Distinguishing Between Useful and Dangerous Gestures

Task 3.28 Postlistening:Role-Playing the Gestures

Task 3.29 Expanding Your Knowledge:Watching Foreign Films

Task 3.30 Expanding Your Knowledge:Examining Your Own Gestures

Task 3.31 Expanding Your Knowledge:Noticing the Gestures of People Around You

Task 3.32 Expanding Your Knowledge:Considering the Most Offensive Gestures

Task 3.33 Expanding Your Knowledge:Trying to Avoid Mistakes

CULTURAL PATTERN 3:POSTURE

Task 3.34 Prereading:Thinking About Posture

Task 3.35 Reading:Considering the Importance of Posture

Task 3.36 Postreading:Surveying the Postures

Task 3.37 Prelistening:Empathizing

Task 3.38 Listening:Thinking About Bob and His Hosts

Task 3.39 Postlistening:Listing All the Mistakes

Task 3.40 Expanding Your Knowledge:Searching for Different Postures

Task 3.41 Expanding Your Knowledge:Making a Posture Video

Task 3.42 Expanding Your Knowledge:Assessing Your Personal Behaviors

CULTURAL PATTERN 4:GAZE

Task 3.43 Prereading:Practicing Eye Movements

Task 3.44 Reading:LearningEye Language

Task 3.45 Postreading:Checking Your Learning of Eye Language

Task 3.46 Prelistening:Keep Building Your Eye Language

Task 3.47 Listening:Catching the Information While You Listen

Task 3.48 Postlistening:Giving Reasons

Task 3.49 Prereading:Thinking About Respect

Task 3.50 Reading:Finding the Truth

Task 3.51 Postreading:Giving Opinions

Task 3.52 Prelistening:Mothering

Task 3.53 Listening:Searching for the Eyes

Task 3.54 Postlistening:Gazing

Task 3.55 Expanding Your Knowledge:Making a Concept Map of Gazing

Task 3.56 Expanding Your Knowledge:Looking Through Magazines for Gazes

Task 3.57 Expanding Your Knowledge:Considering Your Impressions

Task 3.58 Expanding Your Knowledge:Creating a Two-Page"Tip Sheet"About Touch,Gesture,Gaze,and Posture

WORD PATTERNS

Task 3.59 Wordbuilding:Drawing Pictures to Learn Vocabulary

CHECKING YOUR SUCCESS

Task 3.60 Evaluating:Reviewing the Objectives and Rating Yourself

WHERE TO GO FOR MOREINFORMATION

4 Families,the Bedrock of Culture

INTRODUCTION

PATTERNS IN THIS CHAPTER

YOUR SUCCESS PATTERNS IN THIS CHAPTER

Task 4.1 Evaluating:Thinking About Yourself

CULTURAL PATTERN 1:FAMILY STRUCTURES AND YALUES

Task 4.2 Prereading:Considering Traditional Cultures and Other Cultures

Task 4.3 Reading:Verifying Your Hypotheses

Task 4.4 Postreading:Comparing the Cultures

Task 4.5 ExpandingYour Knowledge:Analyzing Common Sayings About Families

Task 4.6 Prelistening:Understanding Latin American Families

Task 4.7 Listening:Comparing and Contrasting

Task 4.8 Postlistening:Personalizing the Experience

CULTURAL PATTERN 2:PARENTS AND CHILDREN

Task 4.9 Prereading:Predicting What JoeMight Say

Task4.10 Reading:Avoiding Distractions and Looking for the Main Ideas

Task 4.11 Postreading:Comparing Joe's Values with the ValuesYour Parents Taught You

Task4.12 Prelistening:Considering What You Know Already

Task4.13 Listening:Seeking Out the Names and Features

Task 4.14 Postlistening:Breaking the Cycle

Task4.15 Prereading:Considering the Background

Task 4.16 Reading:Distinguishing Between Generations

Task 4.17 Postreading:Bridging the Gap

Task 4.18 Prelistening:Thinking About Worries

Task4.19 Listening:Understanding Two Poems with Different Points of View

Task 4.20 Postlistening:Comparing Concerns

Task 4.21 Prereading:Meditating About Mothers

Task 4.22 Reading:Comparing the Ideal with Reality

Task 4.23 Postreading:Getting Over the Surprise

CULTURAL PATTERN 3:MARRIAGE

Task 4.24 Prelistening:Looking for a Mate

Task4.25 Listening:Seeking the Three Main Qualities

Task 4.26 Postlistening:Analyzing the Data

Task 4.27 Prereading:Considering When Marriage Began

Task 4.28 Reading:Noticing Cold and Heat

Task 4.29 Postreading:Feeling the Chill and theWarmth

Task 4.30 Prelistening:Contrasting Ideas of Divorce

Task 4.31 Listening:Keeping Track of Who's Who

Task 4.32 Postlistening:Making Family Trees

Task 4.33 Expanding Your Knowledge:Debating About Divorce

Task 4.34 Prereading:Thinking About Abuse

Task 4.35 Reading:Considering What You Would Do

Task 4.36 Postreading:Checking Your Understanding and Your Emotions

CULTURAL PATTERN 4:WOMEN'S AND MEN'S ROLES IN FAMILIES(AND OUTSIDE)

Task 4.37 Prelistening:Defining the Terms

Task 4.38 Listening:Determining Whether YouAgree

Task 4.39 Postlistening:Checking the Truth Factor

Task 4.40 Prereading:Exploring Oppression

Task 4.41 Reading:Citing Instances of Oppression

Task 4.42 Postreading:Analyzing What You Read

Task 4.43 Prelistening:Getting Ready for the Physical

Task 4.44 Listening:Separating More Serious from Less Serious Oppressions

Task 4.45 Postlistening:Listing the Physical Oppressions

Task 4.46 ExpandingYour Knowledge:Spiking Those Heels

Task 4.47 Expanding Your Knowledge:Comparing Gender Roles Historically

CULTURAL PATTERN 5:CHILDREN FACE VIOLENCE AT HOME

Task 4.48 Prereading:Considering the Problems

Task 4.49 Reading:Identffying Problems and Solutions

Task 4.50 Postlistening:Wrapping Up

Task 4.51 Expanding Your Knowledge: Considering Various Sides of the Issues

CULTURAL PATTERN 6:CREATING HAPPIER FAMILIES

Task 4.52 Prelistening:Making Suggestions for Change

Task 4.53 Listening:Checking Out the Suggestions of Others

Task 4.54 Postlistening: Considering Change

WORD PATTERNS

Task 4.55 Wordbuilding:Assessing the Positive and Negative

CHECKING YOUR SUCCESS

Task 4.56 Evaluating:Reviewing the Objectives and Rating Yourself

WHERE TO GO FOR MORE INFORMATION

Afterword

Appendix A-1

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