Assessment

1. | Complete each sentence with the correct word or phrase from the Vocabulary.

1. It’s taboo/impolite to eat pork in some religions.
2. Many people believe that cultural literacy/punctuality is important and that being late is impolite.
3. In some cultures, it’s offensive/customary to take pictures of people without permission, so few people do that.
4. Some people think that talking with a mouth full of food is an example of bad cultural literacy/table manners.
5. In some cultures, it’s customary /offensive to name children after a living relative, and most people follow that tradition.
6. Each culture has rules of cultural literacy/etiquette that are important for visitors to that country to know.
7. In more conservative cultures, it’s slightly impolite/taboo to call someone by his or her first name, but it isn’t truly offensive.
8. The most successful global travellers today have developed their punctuality/cultural literacy so they are aware of differences in etiquette from culture to culture.

2. Match the words with their definitions.

1. punctuality 2. etiquette 3. taboo | a) not allowed because of very strong cultural rules b) the habit of being on time c) the rules for polite behaviour in the society

3. | Role Play a conversation with a visitor to your country. Tell the visitor about your culture. While speaking use the phrases from the table etiquette.

A: It’s a bad table manner to pick up a soup bowl and drink soup from it. You have to use a spoon.
B: It’s not customary for a man to extend his hand to shake hands with a woman. He should wait for the woman to do that.
C: It is not polite to take photos of people without permission.

Agreement | Disagreement
I agree ... | I disagree ...
I think you are right ... | Actually, I don’t agree, because ...
I support ... | I don’t think ...
I think ... | But I think ...
Really ... | Really?! ...